Drone crash in Nizhniye Achaluki raises questions about its launch site

Of the four injured in Nizhniye Achaluki, only a young woman was slightly injured, her three children were not physically harmed. The Ukrainian-made UAV could not have flown to Ingushetia from Ukrainian territory; it was launched in the North Caucasus, the expert believes.

As "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on July 26, the danger of a drone attack was reported in North Ossetia, Chechnya, and Dagestan. The operation of Grozny airport was suspended three times. In the village of Nizhniye Achaluki in Ingushetia, as a result of a drone attack, a woman and three children were injured. In the private house where the UAV fell, the windows were broken and the property was damaged.

Residents of the village of Nizhnie Achaluki in the Malgobek district of Ingushetia told a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" what happened on the day of the drone attack on July 26, when the drone fell on the house of the Vadelov family.

According to pensioner Fatima, who was hanging out laundry in the yard of her house in the morning, she saw a small plane flying. "Earlier, boys in aircraft modeling clubs launched such planes with motors, they held competitions. Before I had time to think where it came from, there was a sound like a loud bang and smoke immediately - not nearby, but further away from us," the woman said.

According to fellow villagers, police officers and an ambulance quickly arrived at the scene. "They said that the young owner and her three preschool children were taken by ambulance to the Malgobek District Hospital. Thank God, the children were not injured at all, they were only scared, and their mother had a small shrapnel wound. The wound was treated and the children and mother were sent home," the pensioner said, citing fellow villagers.

Official sources reported that specialists had also arrived at the scene to determine the identity of the drone. The damage caused by the UAV's fall is also being assessed. The house that the drone hit was recently built and still had some minor imperfections. Part of the house was significantly damaged, and windows were knocked out throughout the building. The owner of the house refused to answer questions from the "Caucasian Knot".

A resident of Nazran, who called himself Ruslan for the sake of anonymity, graduated from the Kiev Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers and was one of those who built the airport in Ingushetia. Now Ruslan is retired, but he closely follows everything that is happening in the territories of Ukraine and Russia, when both sides inflict significant losses on each other by launching drones into the enemy's territory.

"There are inscriptions in Ukrainian on the drone that arrived in Nizhniye Achaluki. The Ukroboronprom concern reported in early December on the testing of its attack drone, which has a range of up to 1,000 km. Considering that the distance from Ukraine to Ingushetia is several times greater, a top-class UAV will not fly here from Ukraine. This means that it was launched by someone who is in close proximity to Ingushetia,” the specialist believes.

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