The massive attack of Dronami-Kamikadze on the civil and critical infrastructure of Ukraine on October 17 is designed to exert psychological pressure on the Ukrainians themselves. It does not affect the course of hostilities. This is how experts of the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
According to the information of the American military analyst Brett Friedman, the payload of one Shahed-136 drone is about three times more, which has one typical 155-mm artillery shell. Thus, five Shahed-136, which hit Kyiv, had the effect of 15 artillery shells released in a very large territory.
“Such blows can cause great harm to civilian infrastructure, as well as kill and injure many people without creating significant military effects. This analysis indicates that Russian troops continue to use the shaped-136 unmanned aerial vehicles to create psychological effects related With aiming at civilian areas, instead of trying to create asymmetric operational effects, striking concentrated blows on legal military and advanced goals, ”the report says.