- A video reveals Ukrainian forces placing a Russian drone base in Kherson.
- A Ukrainian drone commander stated they discovered the positioning after hacking a Russian FPV drone and geolocating the footage.
- Drone warfare has helped Ukraine in Krynky, the place its forces have established a bridgehead in current weeks.
Ukrainian forces say they discovered and attacked a Russian drone base after hacking a drone and geolocating the footage.
Ukrainian drone commander Robert Brovdi stated that digital warfare specialists had been conscious of a Russian first-person-view (FPV) drone flying in Kherson and that the feed was “intercepted instantly,” Forbes reported.
The footage was despatched to Ukraine’s thirty sixth Marine Brigade, who geolocated it and despatched a reconnaissance drone to research the world, Brovdi stated.
A video reveals a drone positioning itself above a constructing on the Russian web site, which is then struck by artillery.
The video was shared on-line by Ukraine’s Birds of Magyar unit, one of many nation’s best-known drone regiments.
Brovdi stated there have been a couple of indicators that helped the crew determine the bottom, together with a radio antenna and a cable connecting the antenna to the constructing the place the drone operators had been housed.
The incident came about close to Krynky, a village in Kherson Oblast positioned on the east financial institution of the Dnipro River.
Ukrainian marines have pushed throughout the river in current weeks and established a bridgehead in Krynky.
Forbes reported that Ukraine had efficiently taken management of the skies round Krynky utilizing drones and digital warfare — each of which have proved to be essential within the battle.
Growing digital warfare has been a key precedence for Ukraine, with the nation’s high basic Valerii Zaluzhnyi saying it might be “key to victory” in a drone warfare that has more and more been dominated by FPV drones.