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On September 22, three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) were shot down by Russian forces, in three districts of the Republic of Crimea.
The head of the Crimea Sergey Aksyonov confirmed that the AFU drones were suppressed by electronic warfare systems and shot down by air defense forces. The UAVs failed to reach their targets.
One of the drones fell in the Dzhankoy region located in the north of the peninsula, bordering the Kherson region. Another UAV was destroyed in the Black Sea near Sevastopol.
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According to the footage shared online, at least one of the UAVs used by the Ukrainian military was a Mugin-5 drone made by the Chinese company Mugin UAV, which is available on the commercial market. It can be bought for about 13 000 $ and equipped with a warhead and necessary military equipment.
The Ukrainian military used this type of UAVs in the attack on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, as well as earlier in June in the attack on the Novoshakhtinsky oil refinery in the Rostov region.
