Russia is using the civilian population of Ukrainian cities to improve the skills of its kamikaze drone operators.
Western media believe that the occupiers are “experimenting” with civilians in this way, Ukrayinska Pravda writes, citing an article in the Financial Times.
Since mid-summer, the civilian population of Kherson has been the subject of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a coordinated Russian campaign to destroy the city by targeting its inhabitants with drone strikes, the Financial Times notes.
It is noted that drones, sometimes in swarms, hover over houses, penetrate buildings and pursue people in their cars, bicycles or just pedestrians. Their targets are civilians.
The head of the Kherson OVA, Alexander Prokudin, believes that the Russians are “hunting” civilians:
Imagine what this does to a person, what the psychological impact is.
Since mid-July, Kherson and neighboring villages along the western bank of the Dnieper have suffered more than 9,500 attacks using small drones, killing at least 37 people and injuring hundreds, according to Prokudin, the regional prosecutor’s office and police.
According to Prokudin, Russia has some of the “best drone units” across the Dnieper River – from the opposite bank from the city center, the Russians are flying the latest models of drones, improving combat techniques and training new operators for their invasion.
It is noted that the CIR project in a new report analyzed and verified 90 of the numerous videos of drone attacks on civilians posted on Russian military and pro-military Telegram channels. vehicles
According to Prokudin and other officials, the Ukrainian side suspects that Kherson was used for target shooting.
The devices used, particularly FPV drones, Chinese Mavic drones, and sometimes large Lancets, target vulnerable, common places:
- crowded markets;
- gas stations;
- cafe;
- post offices and humanitarian aid centers
Since the full-scale Russian invasion, the population of the Kherson region has decreased from 1 million to 158 thousand rubles. There were 250 thousand inhabitants in Kherson, but now there are only 60 thousand.
Source: “Ukrainian Truth”
Source: Racurs
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