{"id":59427,"date":"2026-07-13T12:43:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=59427"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:44:12","slug":"russia-says-seizes-western-made-ai-powered-drones-prepared-for-attacks-in-urals-far-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=59427","title":{"rendered":"Russia says seizes Western-made, AI-powered drones prepared for attacks in Urals, Far East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Reuters) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MOSCOW, July 13 – Russia’s Federal Security Service said on Monday that \u200bit had seized Western-made, AI-powered FPV drones that had been \u200cdropped onto Russian territory by larger Ukrainian fixed-wing drones and balloons, and were intended to be used for attacks deep inside Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FSB said they landed in Bryansk region \u200bclose to Ukraine, and then Ukrainian agents had transported the drones \u200bin trailers, fitted with false bottoms and loaded with household \u2060appliances, across Russia to the Chelyabinsk region in the Ural Mountains and \u200bthe Amur region in the Far East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It said the plan was to \u200bstrike the Shagol and Ukrainka air bases in those regions, adding that the perpetrators had been detained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FSB said the drones were manufactured in the United States, Britain, Canada \u200band Sweden, carried more than 1 kg of explosives each, and used \u200bAI navigation to avoid Russian jamming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The foiled operation resembled a 2025 attack on Russian military air \u200cbases<\/a> \u2060during an operation dubbed “Spider’s Web”, in which about 20 aircraft were damaged. The attack’s targets included the Ukrainka base. In the 2025 attack, trucks carrying wooden sheds with retractable roofs were used to transport drones closer to \u200bthe targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine<\/a> has intensified \u200battacks on Russian \u2060refineries and defence-linked enterprises in recent months, striking targets thousands of kilometers from Ukraine’s border with Russia. The \u200battacks have led to fuel shortages across Russia as major \u200brefineries have \u2060gone out of operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia has in recent weeks hardened its anti-Western rhetoric, accusing the West of direct involvement in Ukraine’s long-range strikes on Russian territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kremlin \u2060spokesman Dmitry \u200bPeskov said last week that the “special military \u200boperation” in Ukraine had turned into a war because of Western backing for Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Reuters) MOSCOW, July 13 – Russia’s Federal Security Service said on Monday that \u200bit had seized Western-made, AI-powered FPV drones that had been \u200cdropped onto Russian territory by larger Ukrainian fixed-wing drones and balloons, and were intended to be used for attacks deep inside Russia. The FSB said they landed in Bryansk region \u200bclose to Ukraine, and then Ukrainian agents had transported the drones \u200bin trailers, fitted with false bottoms and loaded with household \u2060appliances, across Russia to the Chelyabinsk region in the Ural Mountains and \u200bthe Amur region in the Far East. It said the plan was to \u200bstrike… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59429,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59427\/revisions\/59429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}