"The Russians are having problems": an expert explains why the Shaheds started flying into Belarus. Video

Over the past week, during Russia's drone attacks on Ukraine, four enemy "Shaheds" have already flown into the territory of Belarus and circled for hours in Belarusian airspace. On July 16, after several hours of flying, the last one crashed and exploded 55 kilometers from Bobruisk.

The reason for these strange flights of the "Shaheds" is that the Russians have been having serious problems with these drones lately. Pavlo Lakiichuk, Head of Security Programs at the Center for Global Studies Strategy XXI, talked about them during the telethon.

Commenting on the recent news about the Russian "Shahed" in Belarus, the expert noted that this development was to some extent natural.

"They ("Shaheds" – Ed.) arrive, hit the ground, may explode, may not – as a result of electronic warfare or air defense. The Belarusians are forced to respond to their aggression, which they started together with the Russian army against Ukraine. It's not us who are shooting at them, it's the Russians," Lakiichuk outlined the situation.

He explained the reasons why the Russian-Iranian "Shaheds" have begun to "travel" to Belarus more often and attributed them to the problems that the Russians have recently had with these kamikaze drones. These problems are caused by accurate strikes on the places of production and storage of "Shaheds" on the territory controlled by Russia, as well as problems with the factory in Iran.

The Russians are not doing very well with "Shaheds". Our soldiers have destroyed a lot of them in a few strikes, accurate strikes, and almost 200 "Shaheds" on launchers. And not only "Shaheds", by the way. There is also information from Israeli intelligence that for some reason a plant for the production of "Shahed" drones in Iran is on fire. Therefore, Russia is experiencing a certain shortage of these types of ammunition," noted Lakiichuk.

The shortage of these kamikaze drones leads to mistakes in their use, the expert believes.

"This results in a complete rush to equip these munitions, and they can often fly in a completely different direction than their operators wanted. To this can be added the work of our electronic warfare systems, which deflect these "kites" from the targets they are sent to. So, they are flying away," summarized the head of security programs at the Center for Global Studies Strategy XXI.

As a reminder, the day before, on July 16, two Russian "Shaheds" flew into the territory of Belarus. The first one entered the airspace of Belarus after 4 a.m., and the second one entered a few hours later. Over the past week, four such incidents have been recorded in Belarus. In one of them, the Russian kamikaze drone simply disappeared, and in another, it flew back to Ukraine. The last "Shahed", which circled over Belarus for several hours, eventually crashed and exploded near Bobruisk.

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