Ukrainian novice drone customers destroy Russia’s 40-mile convoy
A SQUAD of novice drone customers say they’ve managed to destroy Russia’s 40-mile convoy in plenty of lethal ambushes.
The unlikely heroes took out swathes of Russia’s notorious “demise convoy” of tanks and armoured autos, which was trapped exterior Kyiv.
Volunteer specialists from specialist air reconnaissance unit Aerorozvidka used drones with thermal think about cameras or these able to dropping small bombs in addition to sniper rifles to assault Russian troops.
The group’s commander Lt Col Yaroslav Honchar stated an ambush close to the city of Ivankiv helped to halt the large Russian operation in the course of the first days of the Ukraine invasion.
The particular IT pressure used quad bikes to strategy the column at night time, and attacked its provide depot to stop the Russians from advancing.
Honchar informed the Guardian: “This one little unit within the night time destroyed two or three autos on the head of this convoy, and after that it was caught.
“They stayed there two extra nights, and [destroyed] many autos.”
“The primary echelon of the Russian pressure was caught with out warmth, with out oil, with out bombs and with out gasoline. And all of it occurred due to the work of 30 folks,” he added.
The elite unit claims it additionally helped to cease a Russian airborne assault on Hostomel airport by shelling 200 paratroopers.
Honchar in contrast the group’s combat to the work of “a hive of bees.”
