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KyivFebruary 15 (Reuters) – Ukraine of the capital military administration said on Wednesday that Kyiv six in the sky Russia balloon was detected and most of them weather was shot after being shot by the self-defense forces.
He said the balloons could carry corner reflectors and intelligence equipment, but on Wednesday in Kyiv weather although he was warned, he did not specify when they flew over the capital.
“According to the currently clarified information, these were balloons moving in the air with the movement of the wind,” – military the administration wrote in the Telegram messaging program.
“The purpose of releasing the balloons is probably weather was to detect and exhaust our means of defense against attack.
Some time before the announcement Ukraine Military Air Force spokesman Yuri Ihnat said that in February of last year, he invaded Ukraine Russia intelligence can use the new balloons to protect their drone stocks.
“Orlan-10 reconnaissance drones such as now (Russia by) are less used and they thought “why don’t we use these balloons?”. That’s why they use them,” said Ihnat Ukraine told the television.
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He confirmed that air raid sirens sounded in the capital on Wednesday due to the release of balloons.
Ihnat repeated the military administration’s suggestion that Russia could use the balloons to distract Ukraine’s air defense forces.
The enemy wants us to use our air defenses protecting our strategic facilities on these worthless balloons.”
Russia Kyiv did not immediately comment on the news about the balloons.
MOLDOVA AIRPORT CLOSURE
of Ukraine South-western neighbor Moldova, the country that has reported several times in recent months about Russian missile intrusion into its airspace, also said that there is an unknown Russian object on its territory.
The country closed its airspace for more than an hour on Tuesday after authorities spotted a flying object that “looked like a weather balloon”.
On Wednesday, the speaker of the Moldovan parliament, Igor Grosu, told reporters that the flying object that caused the country to close its airspace belonged to Russia.
Grosu said that the balloon passed from Ukraine to the north of Moldova.
“It’s either (a drone) or some kind of measuring device at a certain altitude,” he said.
Bordering both Ukraine and Moldova NATO member Romania said on Tuesday it was scrambling planes after an aerial target resembling a balloon was detected in its airspace.
(Reporting by Max Hunder and Pavel Polityuk in Kyiv and Aleksandr Tanas in Chisinau Editing by Timothy Heritage and Bill Berkrot
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2023-02-16 00:40:32
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