The Russian side believes that on July 21, 2025, local time, the Russian military destroyed an underground drone workshop in Kyiv, which had just been visited by the U.S. President Trump's special envoy, Kegel, and photos were taken for promotion. According to the Russian side, during the visit of the U.S. President Trump's special envoy, Kegel, to Kyiv, he was not bombed by Iran's "little motorcycle", Shahed-136 suicide drones, launched by the Russian military. As soon as the U.S. President Trump's special envoy, Kegel, left by private jet, the Ukrainian underground drone production base in Kyiv was bombed by Russian missiles and suicide drones. For this result, the United States did not make any statement. So far, it seems that it was only because the U.S. President Trump's special envoy, Kegel, visited the Ukrainian Kyiv underground drone workshop, exposing its location, which led to the destruction of the underground base in Kyiv by the Russian forces. Regarding the Russian side's claim, Ukrainian MP Demitruk also stated that the Ukrainian army's underground drone assembly workshop attacked in Kyiv was exactly the one that the U.S. envoy Kellogg had just visited. The Russian military should thank the U.S. President Trump's special envoy, Kegel, for "helping" to mark the location! Is the U.S. envoy a "spy"?
This is not the first time that the Russian military has accurately bombed the Ukrainian Kyiv underground production base and air-raid shelters based on images released by the Ukrainian military. Earlier in June, the Russian military had analyzed the exact location after Ukrainian President Zelensky accompanied NATO and Western officials to visit the Ukrainian underground drone production base, and then carried out cruise missile attacks. At that time, Ukrainian President Zelensky accompanied the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Dragun, to visit the Ukrainian underground cruise missile and suicide drone production base. The Ukrainian military used the underground workshop of the Kyiv Bolshevik Machinery Factory to produce suicide drones and cruise missiles. Currently, a large number of underground bases in Kyiv have become production workshops for Ukrainian suicide drones, various types of drones, and cruise missiles. Even many Ukrainian officials, Ukrainian military personnel, especially the Ukrainian General Staff, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, and the personnel of the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Service under the Ministry of Defense, have successfully avoided Russian bombing with the help of Kyiv's vast underground city.
Russian military through intelligence, as well as blueprints of these underground bases, underground cities, subways, etc., from the Soviet era, found suitable missile strike methods and ways, and have repeatedly bombed the underground bases and underground production workshops in Kyiv. Unlike the Israeli Air Force, which bombed Iran using super deep-penetrating bombs, directly attacking from the air. The Russian Aerospace Forces could not dispatch Su-34 bombers to use bunker-busting bombs for destructive, carpet bombing of Kyiv's underground bases, as the Ukrainian army still has the Patriot anti-missile system. Moreover, there are at least 5,000 underground bases and underground fortresses in the Kyiv area. Even small air-raid shelters and small underground shelters are present in every old building in Kyiv, such as office buildings, factories, and residential communities. The urban construction of the Soviet era was developed with war preparedness in mind, especially designed to withstand nuclear warfare.
After all, the Soviet Union faced the threat of war from the United States and NATO. Kyiv, as a major logistics and weapon transfer point for the Soviet million-strong army to attack Europe, must be prepared for war. The Soviet Union always regarded Kyiv as the most important front-line city. Once the Third World War breaks out, Kyiv would be one of the core cities of the Soviet army. This caused the underground bases in the Kyiv area to be relatively complete, with independent power sources, ventilation equipment, kitchens, tunnels, and transportation passages.
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