Find all the latest articles and watch Portugal-related TV shows, reports and podcasts at bps.ptFor the second time in less than a month, the Russian naval base in Sevastopol was attacked by a drone.Clouds of smoke were seen rising after the incident, which took place on Saturday morning, and the Russian-appointed city governor Mikhail Razvojev said it came after a drone flew over a sensitive military site.In narrow military terms, the attack is not significant.It's a drone, Razovozhaev said.Snapshots from a local Telegram channel It seems to support this.But the main question is how a drone was able to evade Russian electronic warfare defenses and fly right over the naval base.It looks like small arms fire can be heard, not air defense systems Some videos The drone may have been shot down before the cargo was delivered.Razovojev initially said the drone was not hit before saying it was.However, it is embarrassing to say the least for Russia, which is struggling to demonstrate its ability to defend what it considers its own backyard.Experts such as Justin Pronk of the Royal United Services Institute Research Center suggest that the drone in the film may be a commercially available Chinese model.$9,500 (£8,030) Mugin-5, or a copy of it.Manufacturers say it has a flight range of up to seven hours, a top speed of 150 km/h (95 mph) and can be adapted to carry a makeshift warhead.Manufacturers say the payload is 15-20 pounds.The drone may also be involved in reconnaissance, although growing evidence of a pattern of drone strikes far behind the front lines in Crimea and elsewhere suggests something different.Russia said the same naval base was hit by a drone in late July injuring five people, which makes the fact that defenses were not reinforced all the more remarkable.Original video from a Russian military blogger, shows a similar-looking aircraft being used in a kamikaze attack on an oil refinery in Novoshakhtinsk, inside Russian territory near Rostov, just across the border from occupied Donetsk.The similarity is unlikely to be a coincidence.Archie Bland and Nimo Omer take you through the main stories and what they mean, for free every morning of the weekUkraine continues to refuse to take official responsibility for such attacks, although it sometimes does so in private.In public, the country's leaders prefer to make informed comments that are not always subtle.See Volodymyr Zelensky's nightly statement: “This year, one can literally feel in the atmosphere of Crimea that the occupation there is temporary, and Ukraine Back."The suggestion is that Ukraine has developed a new method of attack aimed at sowing "chaos within Russian forces," said Zelensky's top adviser Mikhailo Podolyak.He told the Guardian newspaper Previous Week.Some experts believe that drones operated by special forces were responsible for dramatic attack on Sake Air Base About nine fighter jets supporting the Russian fleet in the Black Sea were destroyed.Either way, these drone attacks will have a practical effect.The Institute for the Study of War said that "Russian occupation officers in Crimea are likely considering tightening security on the peninsula" and that "such measures could drive Russian security forces away from the front lines."But the crucial point is the psychological effect.Repeatedly captured on video, it shows that Crimea and similar outposts behind the lines are not secure, bringing the conflict closer to Russia and the Occupied Territories, while simultaneously (at least for now) focusing on military and industrial targets.A series of videos on social media shows traffic jams on roads outside Crimea, including at least one was cleared on Saturday, indicating that Russians who moved into the area after its occupation and annexation in 2014 no longer consider it safe.Aharon Show traffic jams From Sevastopol to Yalta.If this is the effect of a handful of drone strikes, Ukraine will deem the efforts justified.No wonder Razovojev told the Russians in Sevastopol that it was time to fight better in the propaganda war as he implored everyone to remain calm because the local air defense system was already operational.“Upload videos with our air defense systems working,” he said.“Twitter practitioner.Analyst.Remorseless TV Pathfinder.Bacon specialist.Internet fanatic.”His email address will not be published.Mandatory fields marked with *Save my name, email and website in this browser for the next time I comment.