On the evening of February 12, the Russians began to use a new tool to deplete the Ukrainian air defense. This was reported by the press service of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In particular, they refuted the information about the use of " The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on the use by the Russians of a new means of aerial reconnaissance and distraction.

“The enemy used a reconnaissance UAV and several balloons with corner reflectors,” the report says..

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According to this UAV, the air defense of the air command " The result is yet to be confirmed.

Yuriy Ignat, press secretary of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, also reported about the downing of such a reconnaissance drone with a balloon on the air of the We Are Ukraine TV channel.. According to him, in this way, the enemy is trying to deplete Ukrainian air defense and force it to work with expensive missiles at a fake target..

A corner reflector is a device with mutually perpendicular reflective planes that reflects a beam of light falling on it in the opposite direction..

Recall that MQ-9A Reaper drones arrived in Poland, which she rented from the United States, which will conduct reconnaissance on the border with Belarus and Russia. Earlier, the American company General Atomics offered the Pentagon to transfer two such drones to Ukraine for one dollar.. Delivery approval not yet received.