{"id":120563,"date":"2023-10-30T12:21:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T12:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/?p=120563"},"modified":"2023-10-30T12:21:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T12:21:32","slug":"putins-nightmare-as-ukraine-destroys-1-65m-tanks-with-drones-costing-just-330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/world-news\/putins-nightmare-as-ukraine-destroys-1-65m-tanks-with-drones-costing-just-330\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin’s nightmare as Ukraine destroys \u00a31.65m tanks with drones costing just \u00a3330"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turret of a Russian tank near Robotyne is sent flying by a drone strike<\/h3>\n

Ukraine is using drones costing just \u00a3330 each to destroy Russian military vehicles worth \u00a31.65million – with one soldier saying: “It’s hard to handle the emotion when a drone pilot hits a tank.”<\/p>\n

Twenty months after Vladimir Putin ordered his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war grinds on, with Ukrainian and Russian troops locked in a gruelling and protracted fight for control in the east of the country.<\/p>\n

One soldier, Yegor Firsov, who is the deputy commander of a Ukrainian army strike drone unit, was speaking from the city of Avdiivka, which has been the centre of intense fighting.<\/p>\n

He admitted: “The situation is very difficult.<\/p>\n

“We are fighting for the heights around the city.<\/p>\n

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“If the enemy controls these heights, then all logistics and roads leading to the city will be under its control.”<\/p>\n

Mr Firsov, in a voice message sent to the Politico website, explained: “This will make it much harder to resupply our forces.”<\/p>\n

However, Ukrainian forces are clinging on with the help of small First Person View (FPV) drones weighing just 2.2lbs (one kilogram), and which cost just \u00a3330 each – peanuts compared with the Russian tanks they target, which cost \u00a31.65m each.<\/p>\n

Typically, they have four small engines, a battery, a frame and a camera which is linked wirelessly to goggles worn by a pilot who operates it remotely.<\/p>\n

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