The drones fighting cat and mouse battles
behind Russian front lines in Ukraine
The crew, from the 15th Separate Artillery Reconnaissance
brigade, operate the "Shark", a Ukrainian-made drone with advanced
technology including a camera that can sometimes read lettering on clothes from
2 km (more than a mile) above ground. It is part of a burgeoning domestic drone
programme that has sprung up in Ukraine since Russia invaded in early 2022,
producing a range of attack and reconnaissance aerial vehicles which are
playing an increasingly important role in battle.
Russia steps up aerial barrage of Ukraine as
Kyiv officials brace for more
Last winter, Russia took aim at Ukraine's power grid in an
effort to deny civilians light and heating and chip away at the country's
appetite for war. Ukrainian officials accused the Kremlin of weaponizing
winter.
'Russia forcing Muslim
migrants to fight its war in
Ukraine'
Russia has been engaging
in the recruitment of Muslim migrants to bolster its forces in the ongoing
conflict in Ukraine. This information comes
from various
intelligence reports, which have highlighted
Moscow's recruitment
tactics and the incentives offered to these
migrants.
Russia had ordered
regional authorities to provide weekly information on the number of people they
had enlisted from 22 categories of vulnerable groups, such as migrants,
debtors,bankrupts, and homeless.
According to Russian soldiers, the
authorities deliver to
them a particular demographic: "drunks, the homeless, people with obvious
developmental delays, junkies who have just come out of jail…It feels like they
are getting rid of marginalised people. The quality of the army is unimportant
to them. They will dig trenches.
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