Aha Dua Permata: Watch Russian Lancet Drone Destroy Ukrainian Communications Station

Monday 6 November 2023

Watch Russian Lancet Drone Destroy Ukrainian Communications Station

Russia's Lancet drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and loitering munition - which another name for a sophisticated kamikaze drone. It poses a significant threat to high-value equipment and has proven itself many times as an ideal weapon on the battlefield.

The Russian Defense Ministry has released video footage of the Lancet kamikaze drone destroying a Ukrainian communications station. Another UAV, observing the enemy position, guided the Lancet's attack on the target, also allowing a different point of view of the swift and deadly strike.

Since the beginning of the special military operation, Russia has broadly used drones in order to reduce unnecessary risks for troops and conduct surgical strikes on the enemy's infrastructure.

Watch Russian Drones Demolish Ukrainian Vehicle Containing Ammunition

Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces have successfully used drones to complete tasks without suffering combat casualties.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has released footage of Russian reconnaissance and kamikaze drones tracking and destroying a Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) carrying large amounts of ammunition.

"Our drone reconnaissance team located a Ukrainian IFV and delivered the information to the drone strike team. The guys did a competent job on the enemy's armored vehicles. As a result of the precise hits the IFV received from the kamikaze drones, the ammunition it was carrying detonated," said the commander of the Yug battlegroup reconnaissance unit.

Thanks to the effective joint actions of Russian reconnaissance units and drone crews, most of the armored vehicles of the Kiev regime's forces were destroyed on the approaches to the contact line.

Cracks emerging within Ukrainian leadership – NYT

There are growing fissures within the Ukrainian leadership, the New York Times has claimed, citing recent public criticism of the country’s top military commander, Valery Zaluzhny, by President Vladimir Zelensky’s administration. The general claimed last week that the conflict with Russia had reached a stalemate, and that neither side was likely to make significant gains anytime soon.

In its article on Saturday, the NYT alleged that the public rebuke “signaled an emerging rift between the military and civilian leadership at an already challenging time for Ukraine.” According to the newspaper, rumors about tensions between Zelensky and Zaluzhny have been circulating in Ukraine for over a year now. However, the scolding on Saturday that presidential office deputy head Igor Zhovkva levelled at the commander over his recent piece for The Economist may have been the first time this rift had been exposed, the NYT suggested.

Zelensky’s administration publicly criticized Zaluzhny after he warned in his article for the British magazine that the belligerents were locked in a “stalemate,” comparing the situation to World War I.

The general went on to predict that the Ukrainian military was unlikely to pull off a “deep and beautiful breakthrough,” unless its backers provide it with more advanced weaponry.

Commenting on Zaluzhny’s piece, Zhovkva said that the “last thing I would do is comment for the press… about what is happening at the front [and] what could happen at the front.” The official went on to suggest that such revelations play into Russia’s hands.

He claimed to have received phone calls from unnamed Western officials who were in a panic and inquired if Kiev was “really at a dead end.”

Zelensky, too, made it clear during a press conference on Saturday that he does not see the front as being at a stalemate.

The public exchange came amid heavy casualties and modest gains that the Ukrainian counteroffensive, which began in early June, has yielded so far. According to Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu’s estimates, Kiev has lost as many as 90,000 military personnel since then.

The Ukrainian leadership has acknowledged that the operation is not proceeding as smoothly as planned, a circumstance that Zelensky has suggested is due to inadequate aid provided by the West.