Outnumbered and outgunned, Ukrainian forces have mounted a fierce defense by utilizing tools both primitive and new — such as drones which provide aerial surveillance to keep Ukraine in the fight.
The Russian infantrymen slinked back and forth in twos and threes to a house in one of this embattled city’s devastated neighborhoods, ferrying ammunition, an automatic grenade launcher and a heavy machine gun ahead of a planned attack.
An hour after the attack on the house, the Russians were in retreat. Another round took out their cache of explosives. Through the drone, Tezka saw one soldier wounded, another tending to him, while three more brought a stretcher.Smoke rises from burning buildings in March in Bakhmut, the scene of heavy battles in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.
Outnumbered and outgunned, Ukrainian forces have mounted a fierce defense by utilizing tools both primitive and new. Far from just flying drones, the 18 pilots who make up the battalion’s air reconnaissance team also assist other units navigate the city and evacuate the injured. More than two-thirds of the team has been wounded in action.
Drones have also been shot down. But a bigger danger is the Russian army’s electronic warfare abilities, which dwarf Ukraine’s. In other parts of the country, pilots have jury-rigged drones to drop munitions on their enemies. But because Bakhmut’s area is small and Russian jamming powerful and constant, the drone wouldn’t get a chance to get close enough.
But in the meantime the 251st was tired, the tension of being constantly hunted by the Russians’ barrage wearing on them.
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