Estonia’s intelligence chief warned on Friday that Russia was flying balloons over Ukraine to undermine its air defense system.
The tactic aimed to “deplete the Ukrainian air defenses and lay waste their anti-aircraft weapons”, as Ukraine would destroy the meteorological balloons without knowing what they were carrying, Colonel Margo Grosberg told a press conference in Tallinn. said at the briefing, as reported by the Estonian News Agency. to make a mistake,
While they did not carry any military or intelligence cargo, the Russian balloons were fitted with reflectors to make themselves visible to Ukraine’s air defense radar.
Grosberg said:[This strategy] also makes [Ukraine’s] As a result of their actions, anti-aircraft teams are visible, because then you can see where the missiles are coming from. Describing the balloons as “a cheap and clever ploy”, he pointed out that they cost much less than the anti-aircraft missiles used to shoot them down.
Estonia’s intelligence chief raised the alarm weeks after the incident America shot the one it identified as a Chinese surveillance balloon as well as other undetected flying objects. “I don’t know whether the Russian Federation got the idea from Chinese balloons or from somewhere else,” he said.