The drone used to strike Yelabuga appears to be a converted Cessna or similar small plane. How in the world does something like that make it 1200 km into Russia?
Looks like Cessna to me but others saying it was UJ-22 not a Cessna.
“Tatarstan was attacked by drones for the first time”
“a converted Cessna or similar small plane. How in the world does something like that make it 1200 km into Russia?”
Holes in the Air Defense opening?
In WWII, Tatarstan was sanctuary for Russia’s industrial base, so far from the front, that factories could be safely built.
It resulted in investment in, and a build out of Kazan, that before the war was viewed as more of an area of sub-Russian, lesser race, subject people. (still was/is, but at least they built it up some)
With their local refinery (Taneco) also just knocked offline, that area may begin suffering fuel shortages more than higher priority areas like Moscow and St. Petersburg.