Ukraine shoots down $100 million Russian Nebo-SVU radar, targets drone sites

Ushtria Ukrainian hit a radar station rus 1L119 Nebo-SVU worth about $100 million, along with several drone control points, according to the General Staff of Ukraine.

According to the report Telegram of the General Staff, the radar was hit near the village of Limarivka in the occupied Luhansk region, as part of Kiev's efforts to degrade Russia's air defenses.

The 1L119 Nebo-SVU is a radar system used to support the air defense of ground forces, with the General Staff estimating that each unit costs around $100 million.

The system has been supplied to the Russian military since 2017 and features fully digital signal processing, strong jamming resistance, and the ability to detect low-visibility aircraft with a radar cross-section of 0.1 m² at ranges up to about 100 km (62 miles).

According to previously published characteristics cited by Defense Express , Russia claims that the radar can detect targets at distances up to about 360 km (224 miles) when they fly at an altitude of 20 km (12 miles).

At an altitude of 10 km (6 miles), the stated range drops to about 270 km (168 miles), and at an altitude of approximately 500 m (1,640 feet) to about 60 km (37 miles).

Defense Express also notes that, while Russian sources emphasize the theoretical ability of meter-band radar to detect stealth aircraft, they rarely mention that detection accuracy in this band is relatively low.

Attacks on Russian drone sites and oil facilities

In addition, the General Staff reported attacks on several Russian drone checkpoints around the settlements of Solodke, Rivnopillya, and Novohryhorivka in the occupied Zaporizhzhia region, as well as Pidstepne in the occupied Kherson region.

An ammunition depot near Vasylivka in the occupied Zaporizhzhya region was also hit. Consequences were recorded and the extent of Russian losses is still being clarified, the military said.

Drones hit Russian city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban in the early morning hours of January 26, causing a fire at an oil refinery and hitting another industrial site.

Later that morning, the Krasnodar Territory's operational headquarters confirmed that two industrial facilities had been hit and fires had broken out. Authorities did not name the targeted companies.

Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova+ said one of the burn sites was a storage tank at the Slavyansk oil refinery, owned by Slavyansk EKO. The refinery has a designed capacity of 5.2 million tons per year, with recent production of about 4.1 million tons.

The Ukrainian General Staff later reported that Ukrainian defense units had struck the Slavyansk EKO refinery, describing it as part of Russia's energy infrastructure that supports the military.

According to the military, the attack drones hit the refinery area, causing explosions and most likely damaging elements of a primary oil processing unit.