Russia’s latest disruption of a Ukrainian attempt to hit the Russian military airfield in Rostov-on-Don, understood to be the operational nerve center of Russia’s Special Military Operation, has triggered a call for more public revelations of the many such attempts that have been disrupted, TASS reports. NATO nations, including the US, were actively involved, military experts say.
First, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) agents had planned a terrorist attack in Rostov-on-Don. The attempt was thwarted when a person the GUR tried to recruit into the operation warned Russian officials ahead of time. The FSB said that “the attack was intended to destroy airfield infrastructure, kill personnel, and disable aircraft, with the terrorists planning to deploy 13 AI-enabled FPV drones in the operation.” Further, “US secret services collaborated in orchestrating” the plot. TASS’s source for these details was Dmitry Kuzyakin, “an expert in unmanned aircraft and chief designer” at the company he founded and heads, the Center for Integrated Unmanned Solutions (CIUS). CIUS is one of many organizations sanctioned by the EU as part of Russia’s “military and industrial complex.”
Kuzyakin told TASS that the “the active support of NATO nations, the European Union, and the United States” is behind the escalation in “sabotage and terrorist operations within Russian territory.” However, “over the past month, Russian security forces have successfully thwarted several such plots, including operations akin to the notorious Operation Spiderweb, which targeted Russian strategic aircraft.”
