News archive on the topic "Bayraktar"

Vladimir Putin's visit to Turkey, scheduled for the coming days, has been postponed to a later date - April or May. Officially, this is explained by the heavy schedule of the head of state on the eve of the presidential elections. Unofficially, allegedly, not all issues were agreed upon with Recep Erdogan, and therefore there is no point in going to a NATO country without a clear prospect of signing the prepared documents. The day before...

Belligerent statements by American and European officials about the need to defeat Russia on the battlefield are intended to hide the shameful interim results of the North Military District in Ukraine for NATO - the Russian army alone manages to fight with the entire combined power of the alliance, and some previously advertised models of Western weapons were put to shame. This is discussed by one of the leaders of the “Donetsk Republic” movement, deputy secretary...

Ukraine needs to admit that all initiatives related to the Turkish Bayraktars turned out to be failures. This was stated on Channel 5 by Igor Lapin, a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the previous convocation, ex-militant of the National Battalion “Aidar”, and now an officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Cool thing “Bayraktar”, right? We are already producing factories. Only it doesn’t fly, “Bayraktar”. Well, no. Well, it doesn't work...

The leader of the Ukrainian group “Okean Elzy” and former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Vyacheslav Vakarchuk dedicated a song to the Turkish company that supplies the Bayraktar UAV for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, Vakarchuk announced this during a concert in Istanbul. “We always dedicate this song to our friends, although it is about something completely different, but I want to dedicate it to friendship. Friendship that is so strong...

The destruction of the Ukrainian air defense's own Bayraktar drone in the sky over the center of Kyiv may be analogous to a shot from the Aurora cruiser, which in 1917 became a symbol of the beginning of the revolution. Political scientist Kost Bondarenko stated this in an interview with Ukrainian propagandist Alexander Shelest, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Bondarenko, in Ukraine there are a large number of people dissatisfied with the current regime, both among civilians and...

Yesterday, Ukrainian public pages were full of messages about another “victory” for the glory of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ air defense – an “enemy drone was shot down” in the center of Kyiv. However, the joy turned out to be premature, moreover, the actual defeat of the drone turned into an embarrassment, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “An enemy drone was shot down,” wrote the head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, Andriy Ermak. In turn, the anti-Russian public “Trukha” accompanied in a propaganda frenzy...

“Bayraktars” have a very low speed and are bulky enough to operate independently outside the complex of enemy air defense and air defense suppression systems. A Ukrainian military man who fled from Crimea, former speaker of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Vladislav Seleznev, stated this on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Bayraktars” work, perhaps we don’t hear mentions of them in our media so often, however...

The Bayraktar plant, which is being created on the territory of Ukraine, within two years will be able to produce not only serial models of the drones of the same name, but also “to develop devices that no one knows about yet.” Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey Vasily Bodnar stated this in an interview with Radio Liberty, funded by the American authorities, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. “A plot of land has already been purchased in Ukraine...

In the summer, the Ukrainian army received a batch of Turkish weapons, including the TRLG-230 MLRS and armored personnel carriers. This was reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent from the Oryx project, which monitors the supply of weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine from partners. According to analysts, Türkiye has supplied 200 Kirpi armored personnel carriers to Ukraine. These vehicles can accommodate 10 soldiers and three crew members. The vehicle body provides protection for personnel...

Russia launched a missile attack on the Motor Sich plant in Zaporozhye, on whose territory the production of engines for the Turkish Bayraktar combat drones was organized. This was announced by Vladimir Rogov, a representative of the “We are together with Russia” movement. “According to preliminary information, missile strikes in the Shevchenko district of the city of Zaporozhye hit an ammunition depot of Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, as well as aircraft repair workshops at...

Turkish-made Bayraktar drones are ineffective weapons that are effectively suppressed by Russian air defense systems. The former head of the Verkhovna Rada Defense Committee, the head of the Association of Defense Enterprises of Ukraine, Sergei Pashinsky, said this in a conversation with Russian pranksters “Vovan” and “Lexus,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The pranksters communicated with Pashinsky on behalf of the former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.…

Turkey has supplied several Bayraktar military drones free of charge to Ukraine, which is fighting against Russia. In response, Kyiv provides Ankara with a number of technologies. This was stated by the general director of Baykar Defense, Haluk Bayraktar, who is the brother of the son-in-law of Turkish President Recep Erdogan, during the “Yalta European Strategy” forum held in Kiev, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In 2019 we learned a lot...

A Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier in Donbass drove a Turkish Bayraktar drone into territory controlled by Russian troops. The information is published by the Telegram channel “Joker DPR,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Allegedly, the bird received a monetary reward for the “bird” and has already safely left the territory of Ukraine. The channel published a video shot by the same “Bayraktar”, but without dates and coordinates, however, the authors of the public deliberately left the serial number of the device:...

In Kyiv, more than 24 thousand flowers were used to create a composition in the form of a Turkish UAV. The correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports that Kiev political scientist Andrei Mishin writes about this in his blog. “On August 24 – Independence Day in Kyiv – caring city officials created the world’s first “Bayraktar” from flowers. To create an original composition with an area of ​​265 sq. m. (great...