From steppe to sea, a Ukrainian drone unit hunts Russian ships
In line with Ukrainian military practice, he identified himself only by his call sign.During a recent visit by Reuters, his team launched drones every couple of minutes. The unit said it struck a cargo vessel and floating crane in the Black Sea and a power substation in south Crimea. They fly automatically to the operational zone, then pilots — often based far away — take over to land the final blow.Minutes after catapulting their last propeller-powered drone using a small jet booster, the launch team packed up and prepared to move.
- ▪In line with Ukrainian military practice, he identified himself only by his call sign.During a recent visit by Reuters, his team launched drones every couple of minutes.
- ▪The unit said it struck a cargo vessel and floating crane in the Black Sea and a power substation in south Crimea.
- ▪They fly automatically to the operational zone, then pilots — often based far away — take over to land the final blow.Minutes after catapulting their last propeller-powered drone using a small jet booster, the launch team packed up and prep
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From steppe to sea, a Ukrainian drone unit hunts Russian shipsSign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inboxA service member of the 414th Separate Unmanned Strike Aviation System Brigade 'Magyar's Birds' of the Ukrainian Armed Forces looks at an FP-1 deep-strike drone as it launches for a combat mission, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in an undisclosed location in Ukraine, in 2026. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko Published Jul 24, 2026, 03:03 PMUpdated Jul 24, 2026, 03:03 PMSet as preferred sourceUNDISCLOSED LOCATION IN SOUTHERN UKRAINE, July 24 - In a field in southern Ukraine, soldiers scrawled sardonic messages on a sleek grey attack drone that would soon be hunting Russian ships on the Black Sea — part of a widening Ukrainian campaign to isolate Crimea and weaken Moscow's war…
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