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Ukraine Targets Russia’s Air Defense Eyes—Radar Station in Bryansk Hit Alongside Ammo Depots
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Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a Russian radar station in the Bryansk region, along with ammunition depots, artillery positions, drone operators, and troop concentrations in temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories during operations conducted on October 18 and overnight into October 19.
According to Ukraine’s military, the strikes targeted several important Russian military facilities, including a radar station near Trubchevsk in Russia’s Bryansk region.
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The Ukrainian military emphasized that systematically targeting Russian radar installations creates gaps in the enemy’s radar coverage and weakens its air defense capabilities.
Such operations allow Ukrainian forces to deploy unmanned systems more effectively, from tactical missions along the frontline to strikes against military facilities deep inside Russian territory.
In Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Ukrainian forces also struck a Russian artillery firing position and a position occupied by Russian drone crews near the settlement of Lyman Pershyi.
Additional strikes targeted Russian ammunition depots near Hrintal and Ternove in the Donetsk region, as well as a military logistics warehouse near Pelahiivka.
Ukrainian forces also reported hitting concentrations of Russian military personnel near Svobodne and Volodymyrivka in the Donetsk region, along with another troop concentration near Naberezhne in the Zaporizhzhia region.
The Ukrainian military did not provide details on the extent of the damage or the number of Russian personnel casualties resulting from the strikes.
The strikes come as Ukraine continues to develop and deploy unmanned systems for both offensive operations and air defense, including interceptors designed to counter increasingly sophisticated Russian drones.
On October 15, Oboronka reported, citing Andrii Hrytseniuk, head of the Brave1 defense technology cluster, that Ukrainian forces were already using seven types of interceptor drones to counter Russia’s jet-powered Shahed-type UAVs.
According to Hrytseniuk, Ukraine began preparing specifically to counter jet-powered Russian drones in the summer of 2025, after Ukrainian interceptor UAVs had demonstrated growing effectiveness against conventional propeller-driven Shaheds.
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