On Wednesday, January 17, an explosion occurred at a polyester plant in the city of Shakhty, Rostov region of the Russian Federation, after which a fire broke out. The Internet claims that the “Bavovna” visited a workshop for the production of FPV drones. As a result, the company lost more than 200 attack drones.
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The Russian Telegram channel Don Mash, citing the words of eyewitnesses, reported that in Shakhty they heard an explosion at the Avangard polyester plant, after which a fire started there . Footage of thick black smoke at the enterprise was published on the Internet, NBN reports.
Later, the Kremlin Snuffbox Telegram channel, citing sources in the government of the Rostov region, stated that the explosion occurred in the FPV production workshop -drones, which the company sold to the occupying army.
An interlocutor at the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs said that the version of blowing up the workshop was being considered. It is known that as a result of the “bavovna” the plant lost more than 200 ready and almost ready attack UAVs.
Recall that on January 16, drones attacked Voronezh. RosSMI reported on the region's governor's complaints about the weakening of the region's air defense, from which the corresponding systems for Moscow and Crimea were taken away.