A terrible new weapon that changed the war in Ukraine

The scent of the Asrid is hanging over the city of Rodnske. After dragging the city, we see where it comes later.

250 kg sliding bombs collapsed with the main administrative building of the city and lowered the three blocks of housing. After hitting the bomb, we visit a day later, but still smoking the wreckage parts. From the outskirts of the city, the artillery hears the sound of the fire and weapons – Ukrainian soldiers drones drones.

Rodynske is about 15 km (9 miles) in the north of the city of Pokrovsk. Russia has been trying to capture the south since last autumn, but the Ukrainian forces have been able to cease from the march of Russian soldiers so far.

Thus, instead of covering the city, Russia replaced the tactics instead of cutting the supply routes.

In the last two weeks, the hectic diplomatic efforts have failed to bring ceasefire in Ukraine, Russia has increased its most important progress since January and gave rise to Russia.

We find evidence of this in Rodnske.

We hear a Russian drone above us during the minutes we came to the city. Our team runs on the closest cover available – a tree.

DRONDE Press and holding us against it. Then there is a loud blast – a second-nearer Drone effect. The above Drone is still hovering. We hear the terrible rotating sound that has become the most deadly weapon of this war in a few minutes.

When we do not hear more, we get a chance to avoid a hard cover in a 100 meter away in an abandoned building.

We hear the drone again from the shelter. Returned after seeing our action.

Rodnske is swept by Russian drones, and the attacks are proof that they are closer than Russian positions south of Pokrovsk. It is likely that the newly detained area comes from the east of Pokrovsk to Costyantynivka.

After waiting for half an hour, Drone moves quickly to our car parked under the wooden car and is moving rapidly from the roders. We see the smoke and see something burning next to the highway – it is most likely a dropped Drone.

Bilytske, we are away from the front. We see a number of houses destroyed by a missile strike overnight. One of them was the house of Svitlana.

“Even more worse. Before, I could hear the explosions away, it was far away. But now we live ourselves,” he said. Fortunately, Svitlana was not at home when attacked.

“Go to the center of the city, you will see a lot destroyed there. The bread and zoo were also destroyed,” he says.

In the reach of the drones in Safehouse, we meet with the soldiers of the Artillery Department of the 5th attack.

“You can feel the growing intensity of Russian attacks. They use everything they need to cut missiles, halls, drones, the city’s supply routes.” Serii.

The section was waiting to place the positions of three days, cloud cover or high-speed winds to ensure the protection of drones.

In a developing conflict, soldiers had to adapt to new threats from changing technology. And the latest danger comes from fiber optical drones. A ten-kilometer cable is attached to the controller to the supervisor, where the pilot kept the pilot is attached to the bottom of the physical fiber.

“Video and management signal cannot be squeezed via cable or by radio frequencies,” says a soldier in Lina engineering, which is 68th Jaeger Brigade.

When drones are used in this war in this war, both servicemen equipped vehicles with electronic warfare systems that can neutralize drones. This protection was evaporated with the arrival of fiber optic drones and has Russia’s edge in placing these devices. Ukraine is trying to develop production.

“Russia tested us, we tried us. We can even try these drones, even when we try and search for goals. 68th Jaeger Brigade

“We started to joke that maybe we should get scissors to cut the cord.”

There are shortcomings of fiber optic drones – they can slow and cable trees. However, in the meantime, it means that they can be widely disseminated from Russia, to the duties and position of soldiers, more than the battlefield.

“When you enter a position, you don’t know whether you’re stained or not. If you are stained, then you live the last hours of your life,” he said, the discovery of the 5th attacking brigade.

This danger shows that soldiers spend longer and longer in positions.

Oles and his people serve in trenches in front of the protection of Ukraine. It is rare for journalists these days because it is very risky to go to trenches. We meet with Oles and Maxim in a village house where soldiers are not placed.

“The longest time I have passed to the position was 31 days, but I know the children who spend 90 and even 120 days.

“The war is a cold of blood, death, wet mud and from head to foot. When we do not sleep for three days, I remember a sample. The Russians continued to wave us after the wave.

Oles said Russia has changed the tactics of pedestrian pedestrians. “Previously, they attacked the group. Now they only send one or two people from one or two. They also use the motorcycle and in several cycles. Sometimes they slide.”

This means what the front lines in some parts, the Russians and Russians on the other side, but in a very large number of chessboard during the positions.

This makes it difficult to see the progress of both sides.

Despite Russia’s latest earnings, it will not be quick or easy to buy all the Donetsk region of Pokrovsk.

Ukraine withdrew hard, but provides sustainable weapons and ammunition to continue the fight.

As the war includes the fourth summer, Ukraine’s workforce against a larger Russian army is also open. Most of the soldiers we encountered after war. They exercised several months, but in the middle of an angry war, they had to learn a lot in the work.

Maxim worked for a drink company before joining the military. I asked how his family was working.

“It’s really hard. My family really supports me. But I have a two-year-old son and don’t see him much.

It is a soldier fighting for the Maxim country, but a father who lost his two-year-old is his father.

Extra report imogen Anderson, Sanjay Gangly, Volodymyr Lojko and Anastasiia Levchenko