Ukrainian drone seriously damages three warships: The attack is important for several reasons

AUTHOR: M.J. GDNUS
While the Americans on Tuesday night considered how Donald Trump convincingly won the presidential election, the Ukrainians had other business: a robotic sport plane, equipped for remote control and loaded with explosives, was sent towards the Russian Caspian fleet in Dagestan, 1,126 kilometers from the front in Ukraine. writes Forbes.
Russian sailors ran for cover, and an Aeroprakt A-22 aircraft - allegedly flown by the Ukrainian intelligence directorate - crashed into a group of warships anchored at the dock.
Anton Gerashchenko, a former adviser to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Kyiv, says that three ships were damaged in the explosion. Among them are two Gepard-class frigates, the largest ships in the entire fleet. It is possible that the damaged vessels make up almost a third of the strength of the Caspian fleet.
This wasn't the furthest attack the Ukrainians have carried out with their repurposed A-22s, but it's close. In May, Ukraine attacked an oil refinery in Salavat, Russia, almost 1,300 kilometers from the front, with one of its drones.
These modified sports aircraft produced in Ukraine are the result of emergency management. The biggest allies of Ukraine - the USA, the United Kingdom and France - refuse to allow the warring country to use American, British and French cruise and ballistic missiles on targets in Russia.
In order to take revenge for Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities, Ukrainians had to improvise. Now, three months before Trump's re-entry into the White House, that improvisation will become even more important.
An uncertain future
Current US President Joe Biden did not want to fully support the Ukrainian campaign of attacking distant targets, and it is obvious that Trump will be even less inclined to that idea - to say the least. The American Republican Party is increasingly openly in favor of Russia over Ukraine. Trump, a convicted felon, threatened to let the Russians "do whatever they want" in Europe.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is doing everything in his power to get closer to Trump and enthusiastically congratulated him on his election victory. "We look forward to a period of a strong United States of America under the determined leadership of President Trump," Zelensky said.
"There is currently great uncertainty about what impact Trump will have on the war in Ukraine," wrote Samuel Ramani, professor of international relations at Oxford University. If Trump actually carries out what the Republicans have threatened and stops sending military aid, Ukraine will still have ways to continue its fight for survival.