Speaker 1: Now, Ukraine's growing ability to strike well inside Russia has
Speaker 1: been underscored with a series of major drone attacks. Overnight,
Speaker 1: five people were killed and many more injured in an
Speaker 1: attack on a warehouse south of Moscow. These pictures show
Speaker 1: another warehouse belonging to Russia's biggest online retailer, Wildberries, set
Speaker 1: allite in an attack. There was a damage to a
Speaker 1: similar facility in the Taver region. All this comes as
Speaker 1: Moscow accused KIV of deliberately targeting civilians after a drone
Speaker 1: hit a beach on the Black Sea coast, killing seven
Speaker 1: people yesterday. According to reports, the drone may have been
Speaker 1: targeting a nearby Russian naval base. So how are these
Speaker 1: drone attacks being seen in Russia and what impact are
Speaker 1: they actually having? His are Russia editor Steve Rooseaberg, Well,
Speaker 1: this is.
Speaker 2: What we know so far. Russian officials say that overnight
Speaker 2: drones attacked an industrial park south of Moscow. A warehouse
Speaker 2: caught fire. The local governor, the governor of Moscow region
Speaker 2: says that five people were killed. No official confirmation, but
Speaker 2: who runs that particular warehouse. But later came further reports
Speaker 2: of two other drone attacks in two other parts of
Speaker 2: the country, one near Saint Petersburg and the other in
Speaker 2: the Tier region, both targeting warehouses of Wildberry's, the giant
Speaker 2: Russian online retailer. And this fits into a pattern because
Speaker 2: since last month, Ukrainian drones have attacked a string of
Speaker 2: Wildbery's warehouses in an apparent attempt to disrupt the operations
Speaker 2: of a big Russian company that is used by so
Speaker 2: many people here. Tens of millions of Russians buy things
Speaker 2: via Wildberris. Hundreds of thousands of Russians sell things through Wildberri's.
Speaker 2: I was speaking to someone earlier today whose company sells
Speaker 2: via this company. He says that their business has been
Speaker 2: hit by these drone attacks.
Speaker 1: Steve Rosenberg in Moscow with me here is mikey Kay,
Speaker 1: military analyst for the Security Brief and Mike, strategy from
Speaker 1: Ukraine has changed markedly recently, hasn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's effectively called deep strike, Matthew. Let's rewind back
Speaker 3: to February twenty two. Beyond that, the Biden administration, and
Speaker 3: I think we've got some footage here, had given Ukraine
Speaker 3: the hi Mar's launcher. So the Heima's launcher is effectively
Speaker 3: you can see the Attackerm's missile coming out of the
Speaker 3: Hi Mar's launchers of the Hi Mars bit as the
Speaker 3: launcher that you can see there on screen, Matthew is
Speaker 3: the Attackum's missile that's got a range of about three
Speaker 3: hundred kilometers and a warhead of about one hundred and
Speaker 3: sixty kilograms. However, the whole problem with that was that
Speaker 3: Ukraine or Zelenski's hands were tied because the BID administration
Speaker 3: wasn't allowing them to use those deep strike inside Russian territory.
Speaker 3: So fast forward to where we are today, that's changed significantly.
Speaker 3: I think we've got I think we've got a little
Speaker 3: look at some of the latest Russian technology. Yeah, this
Speaker 3: is the FP wan drone. FP stands for five point.
Speaker 3: It's got to a range of two seven hundred kilometers.
Speaker 3: Contrast that with the attackers at three hundred kilometers and
Speaker 3: it's just had a modification to take it out the
Speaker 3: three four hundred klometers with a sixty kilograund warhead. This
Speaker 3: is what is doing all the devastation on wild Breeze.
Speaker 3: And then I think there's another capability that five point
Speaker 3: of developed. This is called the FP five Flamingo. This
Speaker 3: is a huge range of three thousand kilometers and a
Speaker 3: warhead of eleven hundred and fifty kilograms. Just contrast that
Speaker 3: to the Tomahawk land attack missile, the Tea Lamb. It's
Speaker 3: double on both double the range and double the payroll.
Speaker 3: Now this is the Flamingo, the FP five now and
Speaker 3: you'll see it drop and when it drops, it creates
Speaker 3: obviously a massive explosion. That's that eleven hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: kiloground warhead. So these are the two key capabilities that
Speaker 3: are being used to great effect by Ukraine at the moment.
Speaker 1: So that's what they are building and now using. Where
Speaker 1: have they been targeting and how deep inside Russia have
Speaker 1: the targets or some of the targets.
Speaker 3: Been, Yeah, incredibly deep. Let's start with Russian energy infrastructure.
Speaker 3: We've seen that that's been occurring now for over three
Speaker 3: months and it's been creating, you know, huge gas lines,
Speaker 3: it's been strangling Premiere and it's been used to great
Speaker 3: effect obviously also the Russian war machine. But then also
Speaker 3: in July, there's two other key bits which I think
Speaker 3: are really important. The first one is Ukraine now targeting
Speaker 3: shadow tankers and I think we've got some thermal imagery
Speaker 3: here that we can look at over one hundred and
Speaker 3: over one hundred and twenty targeted in the in the
Speaker 3: Sea of Asov and over seventy targeted in the Black
Speaker 3: Sea since the beginning of July, again having a massive
Speaker 3: impact on Russia's energy. But the key one here and
Speaker 3: what we've been hearing about of the last eighteen days
Speaker 3: is wild Bury. It's effectively the Russian equivalent of Amazon.
Speaker 3: And over the commander of Ukraine's unmanned aerial forces have
Speaker 3: basically said, in the last eighteen days, over fifteen logistical
Speaker 3: warehouses have been struck. There's two key points in math
Speaker 3: that they're interesting. The first one is the size. So
Speaker 3: the biggest one that's been struck is over a quarter
Speaker 3: million square meters. That's effectively six times the eyes of
Speaker 3: Wembley Stadium. But if we can go back to the map,
Speaker 3: you'll just see, Matthew, how far inside Russian territory they're
Speaker 3: actually striking. I think if you can just go back
Speaker 3: to the map and if not, basically it's the Russian
Speaker 3: there we go. You can see right out on the
Speaker 3: far right of the screen there that's a thousand that's
Speaker 3: a thousand miles from the Ukrainian border. This wasn't possible
Speaker 3: a year ago, and in nine months the Ukrainians five
Speaker 3: point especially, have developed these deep strike capabilities that I
Speaker 3: would say are certainly turning the tide of the territory
Speaker 3: that Russia has inside occupied Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Yes, it has an impact on the battlefield, it has
Speaker 1: an impact on the economy, it has an impact on
Speaker 1: the psychology for Russians, and of course Fladimir Putin. Mikey,
Speaker 1: thank you for taking us through all of that.
Speaker 3: Thank you