The 27-year-old woman flies reconnaissance drones over the enemy’s positions before and after strikes. Hanging out for a signal, though, is complicated
This time last year, 27-year-old Kateryna was growing bored of her job in the police force. So in December, the pint-sized Ukrainian decided to sign up to the army.
Then one day in June, she was in a lesson when suddenly she was called to a real combat mission – to help fly a drone over a Russian position.Now, it’s her daily job to fly reconnaissance drones over the enemy’s tanks, artillery and infantry to pinpoint their location in the eastern Donbas region. With this information, her comrades try to take them out.
Kateryna, who withdrew her surname and goes by the codename “Runa”, says being the only woman in her unit of drone operators doesn’t present any issues other than showering, and the men insisting that they carry her bag. “We had to stick a remote control out of the trench to operate our drone. They started shelling us and we did not have any comms there at all.“So, we had to run out into the middle of the road and stand there with our hand upright to get an intermittent connection with a radio, because the enemy blocked us with their electronic warfare.”
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