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In the war in Ukraine, Ukraine can rely on militias that hate Vladimir Putin. One of them carried out a devastating kamikaze drone attack.
Moscow/Kyiv – Russia has Ukraine War apparently suffered a heavy loss. While the situation in the Ukraine war remains dynamic after the Kursk advance and the Donbass offensive, anti-Kremlin units from Russia and Belarus have evidently succeeded in setting up an expensive surveillance system of the Russian leadership around rulers Wladimir Putin to attack successfully.
This should be a Video showing the so-called pro-Ukrainian Legion of Freedom of Russiaa military alliance of defected Russian and Belarusian forces and volunteers, published on YouTube. The depiction cannot be independently verified, nor can the location.
Video apparently shows: Kamikaze drone hunts Russian surveillance system in Ukraine war
The video shows a drone attack in the Ukraine war on a so-called Murom-M surveillance system. This can identify people, weapons and vehicles using thermal imaging technology. A powerful zoom function makes this possible up to distances of ten kilometers.
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Russia has been using this technology since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, especially on the front line. To be as effective as possible, the high-tech cameras have to be as high as possible. The video shows a meter-high mast on which the surveillance system sits.
Cinematic collision: Kamikaze drone crashes into Russian target in Ukraine war
A drone approaches it and flies head-on into the platform. The aircraft apparently causes the video and thermal imaging cameras on the meter-high mast to crash into the depths. “This is what the saying ‘money thrown out the window’ looks like,” the pro-Ukrainian militia writes cynically on Telegram.
Members of the “Legion of Freedom of Russia” are said to be operating on the Russian border. (Archive photo) © ZUMA Wire/dpa
According to the Legion, a single system costs 50,000 US dollars. The tower in the video remained standing. There was no major explosion. A few clouds of smoke appeared. A Ukrainian soldier told the Kyiv Post because the system was only damaged rather than completely destroyed. The attack missile is therefore likely to be an FPVKamikaze drone Just recently, a Ukrainian attack helicopter hunted down Russian drones: here, too, is a video of the shooting down. (pls)
