Fire Point claimed that Russia had inflated the numbers of downed drones
Russia, on average, overestimates by three to four times the number of attack drones that, according to its claims, were shot down over Russian territory.
Fire Point urged people not to rely on Russian data regarding allegedly destroyed aerial targets.
“We once analyzed individual missions where we know that only our drones were flying. On average, the Russians overstate the number of drones launched by a factor of 3 to 4 and already report them as having been shot down,” said Iryna Terekh on the YouTube channel “SBS: Unmanned Systems Forces.”
According to her, the data provided by the Russians varies depending on “what kind of drama they need to create.”
“For example, there was a case where a successful mission required two Flamingos—and yes, both reached their target—but they wrote: ‘18, 20, or 35 Flamingos shot down.’ And it’s the same with drones. That’s why the scariest thing is when our journalists rely on Russian figures to try to come up with some kind of count,” noted Iryna Terekh.
This was stated by Iryna Terekh, CEO and CTO of Fire Point.
In Kharkiv, the Russians attacked two gas stations: two people were injured.
As a reminder, on August 23, the Russian military attacked a train station in the Kharkiv region with a drone while a passenger train evacuating people was stopped. Two women were killed in the strike, and five others were injured.
On August 23, Russian terrorist forces attacked Ukraine’s railway infrastructure five times. One person was killed and four others were injured as a result of the strikes.
On August 23, Russian forces attacked the locomotive of passenger train No. 147, traveling from Zhytomyr to Odesa, with a missile-equipped drone. The train was stopped and passengers evacuated before the strike, so neither passengers nor railway workers were harmed.
