Inside the secret base of a Ukrainian kamikaze drone team, Sky News speaks to young soldiers whose job it is to attach explosives to drones, then go within one or two kilometres of the frontline in Bakhmut, and using virtual reality goggles, fly them into the Russian lines.
We're racing across town in battle-torn eastern Ukraine, trying to keep up with a battered BMW driven by an 18-year-old with his 21-year-old mate urging him on; but they aren't joyriding youngsters. They're soldiers in the military and part of a special unit, and they're taking us to their headquarters.
We had met an hour or so earlier when we pulled up outside another small house they operate from, long since abandoned by its owners after a year of continuous shelling from the Russian forces.We can't film outside as their location is secret, but we're led into a gloomy corridor and through a curtain.
Inside two boys are working, one with a soldering iron and another tapping furiously on a computer, data and codes scrolling up the screen.In a glass-fronted cabinet are rows of sealed plastic tubes, next to the stacks of batteries and covering an entire shelf, piles of neatly stacked drones - the type you'd buy in a high street shop.
She tells me her mum and dad send them care packages and collect donations for them to buy more equipment."He's just outside," she says, laughing. He is also serving. "We are fighting for our land, for our history, for our culture. We are fighting for our freedom, serenity and fighting for our people.
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