Kiev has announced that it has already trained over 10,000 drone operators. Only one drone has been involved in an accident over the skies of Kiev in the past few hours: the Ukrainian Air Force shot down one of its own drones, over which it had lost control.
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The Ukrainian counter-offensive is also focused on this drones. In fact, Kiev has announced that it has already prepared and over 10,000 operators trained of drones to support the attack of the ground forces in the announced attack on the Russians to retake the areas occupied by Moscow. The plan has been dubbed a “drone army,” as explained by Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation and Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov.
“We recently completed the first part of the pilot training project, During this time, 10,000 pilots have been trained,” the Ukrainian minister said on TV, adding that the plan “Drone Army concerns the full development of the field of unmanned aerial vehicles, both from the point of view of production and from the point of view of their application”.
An announcement that comes hours after a drone crashed on the Kremlin that Moscow blamed on Kiev and the US. In addition, for days Kiev has been conducting drone strikes both in the areas occupied after the Russian offensive, as well as in Crimea and on the Russian border. However, according to Kiev, it could only be a foretaste of the drone plan, since, as Fedorov himself explained, the program is aimed at launch 60 drone attack companies and the transformation of doctrine regarding the use of these aircraft on the battlefield.
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Runaway drone shot down over Kyiv
Meanwhile, only one drone has been affected by one in the past few hours Crash over the sky of Kiev. In fact, Ukraine’s Air Force said it shot down one of its drones, which it lost control of Thursday night after a series of explosions rocked the capital. The scene was immortalized in some videos, where the anti-aircraft guns shoot down the plane at low altitude.
At first there was speculation that it could be a Russian, but Kiev later explained that it was his drone. “Around 20:00, during a commercial flight in the Kiev region, a Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle lost control … the target was destroyed!” The Air Force said, adding that the cause was a “probable” technical malfunction. When the plane crashed, it caused a fire on the ground floor of a mall.
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