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Russia Could Use Captured Ukrainian Drones to Strike NATO Infrastructure, Lithuania Warns
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Russia may use captured Ukrainian drones to attack critical infrastructure in the Baltic states while attempting to obscure who carried out the strikes, according to an assessment by Lithuanian military intelligence reported by LRT on August 6.
Such an operation could allow Moscow to create uncertainty over the origin of an attack and deny responsibility for strikes carried out on NATO territory.
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Lithuanian Defense Minister Robertas Kaunas confirmed the intelligence assessment.
“We have information that Russia is considering unconventional kinetic attacks against critical infrastructure in the Baltic region,” he said.
Kaunas added that Russia could potentially use Ukrainian-made drones for such operations. He did not disclose possible targets or provide a timeline for any potential attack.
Russia may already have begun using captured Ukrainian long-range drones in provocative operations of the kind previously warned about by Poland.
Footage released by Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, an adviser to the Ukrainian President on defense technology development, may support those concerns. The video, recorded by a Ukrainian interceptor drone, showed an aircraft whose silhouette, fuselage, wings, and tail resembled Ukraine’s FP-1 or FP-2 strike drones.
Russian forces may have recovered Ukrainian drones after they were forced to land by electronic warfare systems or crashed because of technical failures. Any relatively intact aircraft could then be repaired, reprogrammed, copied, or used in operations intended to falsely implicate Ukraine.
Earlier, an OSINT analyst reported that Russia’s inability to mass-produce its own heavy bomber drones has reportedly pushed its forces to build an improvised repair network for captured Ukrainian VAMPIRE drones.
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