Tuesday, January 14, 2025

FINANCIAL TIMES on Russian Killer Drones

From Christopher Miller, Sam Joiner, and Irene de la Torre Arenas's 12-4-24 FINANCIAL TIMES article entitled "Russia Uses Civilians as ‘Target Practice’ for Killer Drones":

Kherson’s civilians have been, since midsummer, the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted Russian campaign to empty a city by stalking its residents with attack drones. 

The killer machines, sometimes by the swarm, hover above homes, buzz into buildings and chase people down streets in their cars, riding bicycles or simply on foot. The targets are not soldiers, or tanks, but civilian life. 

“They are hunting us,” said Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson regional military administration. “Imagine what that does to a person, the psychological impact.”

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