Why are Ukraine’s cheap, slow drones
so successful against Russian targets?
We use drones to target Russian enemies.
Aerorozvidka is a non-governmental organization
whose goal is to give support to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
For some of us, drones were just a hobby.
One of us was a photographer, another a marketer,
a banker, a teacher.
The Russian army is huge, and they shell us thousands of times a day,
but our drones don’t miss.
[SUPER_USERS]
[THE DRONE UNIT TAKING ON RUSSIA]
Kyiv this morning is staring down the barrel
of a Russian assault column 40 miles long.
Why can’t anybody do anything
about this approaching humanitarian nightmare?
To stop all that madness,
a special unit was created.
We understood that [Russia’s] main plan was a blockade of Kyiv,
to cut it off from the Odessa highway.
We started to attack the convoy
from the city of Malyn.
This made them divide into small groups of five to ten vehicles.
They had to move their equipment,
so they decided to store it somewhere.
They chose a farm.
We observed it, gave them a week to bring more equipment,
then we brought our bombs, and our drone destroyed them.
That was the whole operation.
The Russian army is huge.
We’ve dealt with them since 2014. Nothing is new.
A Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Russian troops spreading out
throughout the strategic Crimean peninsula.
Twenty thousand Russian soldiers have been on the move across Crimea
in the past 24 hours.
For a year, we were in the news, and then everyone forgot.
For some of us, drones were just a hobby.
One of us was a photographer, another a marketer,
a banker, a teacher.
Personal qualities are important.
These people should be stress-resistant.
They should have some engineering skills
because we make drones.
Sometimes, something can break,
and you need to fix it right away in the field.
Yes, we have lost people.
Five people.
What we are watching, Erin,
is no less than the real-time evolution of warfare.
These drones can just pick them off.
If we are talking about the drones that Aerorozvidka makes,
they can fly up to ten kilometers
and carry up to five kilograms in weight.
We use drones at night
when Russians don’t maneuver.
It is just the easiest way to attack and destroy them.
It is quite risky.
We must be very close to the target.
You can’t just leave when you hear mines and explosions.
If a drone is in the air, we must finish the mission.
We will not fight the third world war in Ukraine.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg
said the military alliance is not planning to put boots on the ground
or airplanes in the sky in Ukraine.
The system of collective security must be updated.
Because if a dictator can be in charge of some country
and terrorize all the neighbors, and no one can do anything,
there’s a serious flaw in the system.
Of course, we have a lot of faults that we are guilty of.
And a lot of things we allowed to happen.
But at the same time,
we are being attacked, and others just observe.
But [Russians] will always be our neighbors.
We won’t destroy all of them.
We need to guarantee that our children and grandchildren
live without fear of war.