Kyiv’s Forces Face 2,000 FPV Drones Daily in Druzhkivka Onslaught

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Ukrainian military analyst Dmytro Putiata said on August 21 that Russian forces are launching 1,500 to 2,000 radio-controlled first-person-view (FPV) drones every 24 hours against the city of Druzhkivka and two key logistics routes into it in the Donetsk region.

Putiata, posting on X, added that the figures exclude fiber-optic-guided FPV drone strikes, which are “impossible to count.”

Ukraine’s 19th Army Corps is currently facing heavy pressure in Druzhkivka and nearby areas, according to the military analyst.

In the nearby city of Dobropillia, also within Donetsk, Russian forces are launching about 1,200 radio-controlled FPV drones daily, Putiata added.

“The amount of drones and drone operators are constantly increasing,” he wrote.

Radio-controlled FPV drones are cheap and easy to manufacture, and over the past year Russian military developers have made them more resistant to jamming, employing solutions like mesh networking, cellular control, frequency hopping, custom frequency bands, dynamic software-defined radio channel swapping, and boosted transmission power.

Druzhkivka and Dobropillia lie northeast and north of the former Pokrovsk front. After capturing Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad, Russian forces shifted in these directions, using small infiltration groups, infantry units, and reinforced brigades to close in on both cities.

In recent weeks, the Russian military advanced to within roughly six kilometers of Druzhkivka in places, reached the southeastern outskirts of Dobropillia with infiltration groups, and seized or contested settlements such as Matiasheve and areas near Bilytske and Hannivka.

Russian troops also expanded fire control over key roads with drones and glide bombs, complicating the logistics of Kyiv forces.

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Svenson, Jens

any non white (specially africans and asians) would be beaten to death by the white supremacists of the following organizations: ss aidar, ss kraken, wolfsangel (aka azov), waffen ss nachtigall (who were in kursk killing civilians), leibstandarte adolf hitler (zelenski security team), right sektor ukr – all of them hate africans and asians, and all of them are leading the ukrainian government and military. all of them funded by the us and eu tax payers

Itsthejews

all of these nazis were created by washington and jews who run the deepstate. isis and hts was also created by israel to destroy syria. why not end the war in ukraine and give all these drones to hezbollah that would make a major difference in liberating lebanon andpalestine from israeli occupation. the only country that deserves to be defeated in war is israel they have started wars with all their neighbors and are waging war against all of us.

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whatajoke

can’t be main lie news says ukrainian can win just need more patriots

the Narrative

tremendous cost to ukrainians who allowed globalist the war regimes using it to provoke russia. no one ever really wins war in the end, both sides suffer destruction when the tally man comes. he who survives is declared winner.

Pulelaoga

they can mount as many drones as they want, drone warfare always favors the defender not the attacker, this is a fundamental reality of war

Joseph Day

yes, being stuck in a hole unable to move with no supplies is always in your favor

jens holm

we invite all ukraine nazi to com greenland and farm ice v

V for victory

ukronazis played with the wrong toy, now it’s russia time.