After Trump's election, Russia increased drone attacks on Ukraine by 1.5 times

The aggressor country has increased the intensity of long-range attacks on Ukrainian cities by about 44% in the week after Donald Trump won the US election.

This was reported by ABC News.

The size and complexity of drone attacks from both Russia and Ukraine have been steadily increasing since the start of the full-scale war. Over the past five weeks, about 4,500 UAVs have crossed the common border in both directions.

But Trump's election victory, confirmed on the morning of November 6, is linked to Moscow's increased use of Iranian-made Shahed strike drones to bomb Ukrainian targets across the country.

In the week after Trump's victory, Russia launched 641 attack drones into Ukraine, according to daily data from the Ukrainian Air Force - an average of more than 91 UAVs daily.

Ukraine's Air Force recorded 2,286 launches into its territory between October 1 and November 5, an average of less than 64 UAVs per day.

The daily number of Russian drones exceeded 100 for three of the seven days following the US presidential election, a threshold reached only five times in the previous five weeks. The record of 145 drones was set on November 10, the publication writes.

As a reminder, on November 14 , Russian troops attacked the center of Odesa using missiles and drones. The attack damaged a church, residential buildings, a store, garages, a main heating pipeline, and vehicles. Windows were smashed in many buildings, and balconies and roofs on some caught fire.

The shelling killed a 35-year-old woman who was sleeping near a window. Ten other people were injured, including a 9-year-old boy who was hospitalized in moderate condition. One of the injured adults, a 22-year-old man, is in serious condition, while the rest of the wounded were hospitalized in moderate condition in hospitals in Odesa and the region.

According to the State Emergency Service, the shelling damaged residential buildings, cars, a church, and an educational institution. Fires broke out at six different addresses, which rescuers quickly extinguished.

According to Yuriy Ihnat, acting head of the Communications Department of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the drones were flying to Odesa from Krasnodar region and Crimea. The military officer emphasized that it was a Shahedi attack, not the so-called "unidentified type" drones that are constantly flying from the north mixed with real attack drones.

Ігор Льов