Ukraine’s military released new footage on social media this week that showed the country using small suicide drones to attack and destroy an entire Russian military convoy inside of Russia’s borders.
“The column of military equipment of the Russian army in the Kursk region was destroyed by the collaborative efforts of the 53rd Mechanized Brigade and the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade,” the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine posted on X.
The post included a video that showed more than a dozen Russian military vehicles traveling on a road when a small drone flew into one of the trucks at the front of the column, causing it to erupt into flames.
Shortly thereafter, the other trucks got off the road and drove through a field as they raced to hide in rows of trees and bushes.
However, their efforts were unsuccessful when a larger surveillance drone that was flying overhead was easily able to locate the other trucks and the small kamikaze drones quickly moved in for the kill.
Newsweek reported that the convoy was traveling within two miles of Ukraine’s northern border, according to various sources.
Videos from the suicide drones showed them all zeroing in on the trucks, some of which appeared to be hit multiple times, and flying straight into them, at which point their explosive payload detonated.
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Rebeccah Heinrichs, senior fellow at Hudson Institute and the director of its Keystone Defense Initiative, responded to the video by telling The Daily Wire: “Ukraine has shown over and over that it has had a breathtaking transformation since Russia invaded in 2014.”
“It is a highly-motivated adaptive formidable fighting force,” she said. “The failure to deter Putin in 2022 is a tragedy, as has been the Biden administration’s unwillingness to lead NATO to fully back Ukrainian victory. But if NATO countries provide Ukraine the necessary weapons and targeting leeway, Ukraine has the potential to force the Russians out of their territory. And it will be the most battle-hardened experienced democracy at fighting a modern high end war.”
WATCH:
The column of military equipment of the russian army in the Kursk region was destroyed by the collaborative efforts of the 53rd Mechanized Brigade and the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade. pic.twitter.com/bg9m5Rf3Ec
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) June 3, 2024
