Video recently posted online shows Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles [UAVs] gliding over nets set up by Russia’s armed forces in an attempt to thwart drone strikes.
The footage was recorded by Escadrone, a non-profit group that manufactures attack drones for Ukraine, and posted on its Telegram channel. WarTranslated, an independent media project that translates materials about the war into English, shared Escadrone’s video on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday.
The Escadrone clip was reportedly made in Bakhmut, a settlement in the Donetsk region of Ukraine that has long been a focal point of the war. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces, with the help of Wagner Group mercenaries, claimed control of Bakhmut earlier this year. However, Kyiv has seemingly made recapturing Bakhmut a goal in its ongoing counteroffensive, and recent reports have indicated Ukrainian forces have made gains in efforts to close in on the city.
“Slam dunking a Russian vehicle in Bakhmut. Russians recently began deploying cope nets at important roads to stop FPV [First-Person View] drones from hitting them. As evidenced from the video, this did not help,”
WarTranslated wrote in the caption of its X post.
Other videos and photographs have also emerged in recent days to report on the large camouflage nets being strung up between lamp-posts by Russia’s military in positions susceptible to drone attacks.
Source: Newsweek