Iranian drones sow terror in Ukrainian cities. A story by a special correspondent for Le Figaro

Special Envoy in Zaporozhye (Ukraine)

This sequence has unfortunately become commonplace in Zaporizhia. In the middle of the night, the sirens howl, then the explosions of anti-aircraft guns fall silent before the explosions of rockets and drones. “The Russians have been bombing the city every day for more than two weeks says Alexander Vlasyuk, deputy mayor of this big city in the south of Ukraine.

Every evening, in this same darkness, Alexander M., an officer of the Hortitsa regiment of the Ukrainian Territorial Brigade, settles down with his twenty men. This soldier has been following the drone for two weeks. His new profession. “We are trying to shoot down the Iranian Shahed-136., he said. These vehicles, about two meters wide, in the shape of a delta wing, are the newcomers at the front, the “kamikazes”, which explode on their targets. “These are rudimentary machines, but they can do great things…

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