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Russia claimed that Ukraine attacked several Russian regions with drones overnight, including the northwest Leningrad region for the first time.

The defense ministry said Thursday that air defense systems shot down drones over the regions of Moscow and St. Petersburg, with one official claiming Ukraine targeted a Russian oil terminal in Leningrad, the northwestern Russian region where St. Petersburg is located. The port infrastructure was not damaged and no one was injured, the official said.

Kyiv has not publicly commented on the claims. If accurate, however, it would mark the first time that the northern region of Leningrad, where St. Petersburg is, has been targeted by Ukraine.

“The geography of UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] strikes by the Ukrainian Armed Forces continues to expand,” one Russian official noted.

The governor of the border Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said a woman was injured and several houses and electricity and gas supply lines were damaged during a Ukrainian attack on the village of Myasoedovo near Belgorod.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/18/ukraine-...raine.html

It’s clear the Ukrainian military understands the importance of the electromagnetic fight. But it’s less clear the US military understands it. Electronic warfare, or EW, is invisible. It’s the practice of tapping, blocking and hijacking the enemy’s radars and radios – while preventing the enemy from tapping, blocking and hijacking your own radars and radios.

It’s high-tech work, involving sensitive electronic receivers and powerful transmitters. It’s all about frequencies and wattage, time, space & coordination. After all, if you’re not careful, all back to radio noise that might jam enemy’s communications might also block your communications, (is all back to radio). EW is expensive, unglamorous & requires a lot of training. So it should come as no surprise that many militaries neglect it. Not so Russian military. The Russians or the Soviets before them, had reputation for fearsome electronic attack and defense that reputation wasn’t unearned. July 2014, during early mths of Russia’s initial invasion on eastern Ukraine, 3-Ukrainie brigades learned hard way that Russian regiments always fight for the electromagnetic spectrum.

The Ukrainians had massed their tanks & infantry in Zelenopillya, just few miles from Russian border, in preparation for attack on rebel-held Luhansk. But Russian drones located the encampment & Russian forces jammed the Ukrainian headquarters’ radios.
“The form, prostrate & unable to communicate, were then ruthlessly attacked by Russian multiple-launch rockets and run-of-the-mill tube artillery,” US Army 

Major Amos Fox noted in a 2019 edition of Armor, a military trade journal.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01...omagnetic/