Ukraine Says Russia Is Launching ‘Military Balloons’ With Corner Reflectors To Exhaust Its Air Defenses

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The Ukrainian Air Force has shot down a balloon launched by Russia: The Russian army used "several balloons with angular reflectors", as well as a reconnaissance drone over the sky of Dnepropetrovsk - AFU

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EurAsian Times: Russia Is Launching ‘Military Balloons’ With Corner Reflectors Into Ukraine To Exhaust Its Air Defenses – Kyiv 

The Pentagon informed that an F-16 shot down the object, employing the same AIM-9X Sidewinder missile as in the last three shootdowns. 

Pentagon officials assured that none of these objects shot down appeared to pose a military threat. However, there has been a proliferation of balloons being sent to the continent. 

Intriguingly, even as the United States and Canada are actively fighting the menace of UFOs, Russia has now borrowed a fig leaf from this playbook and started infiltrating Ukrainian airspace with its balloons. Ukraine alleges that the move is aimed at tiring out Ukrainian air defenses.  

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Update: Russia Also Has A Fleet Of Spy Balloons (Warzone/The Drive)  

WNU Editor: It looks like this strategy is working .... Kyiv says it shot down Russian balloons over Ukraine's capital (Reuters). More here .... Ukrainian officials say six Russian ‘balloons’ flying over Kyiv, most shot down (Al Arabiya).