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Strike zone hours9/17/2023 ![]() ![]() “They’re a couple of miles away,” one of the young men notes. Very shortly after, it’s already flying over an occupied zone. Next to one of the walls of the house that serves as a makeshift barracks, 26-year-old August (none of the soldiers provide their surnames), launches a remote-controlled drone. However, he acknowledges that things have been tough they have suffered significant casualties. Sasha - who was previously deployed to Kherson for eight months with this same team and participated in the city’s liberation last November - prefers not to offer strategic and tactical details about the counteroffensive. ![]() The coordinates obtained with the drones are used to program attacks on those specific points. In this photo, he prepares to launch one of the reconnaissance drones towards enemy positions in Novopokrovka Luis De Vega Hernández August, 26, was a financial auditor before the Russian invasion. They also don’t approach the enemy trenches, although they can see them perfectly over their screens. Throughout the day, none of these men put their finger on the trigger of their gun. This is an increasingly common way of fighting: from a distance, with technology as a weapon. This group - known as the Thor unit, which operates under the umbrella of the National Police - is carrying out surveillance tasks, observing the Russians with the use of reconnaissance drones. The destination towards which Sasha is roughly heading is a dilapidated house that serves as a base for him and his comrades. It is there where some of the most intense clashes between the two armies have been taking place, in the midst of the counteroffensive that Ukraine launched a couple of weeks ago. It overlooks Novopokrovka, where, according to the government in Kyiv, the Russians have recently been losing ground. Off the shoulder of the road, armored vehicles try to remain out of sight under the trees.Ī continuous roar welcomes visitors to Mala Tomachka, a small town in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region. Despite the screech of the tires and the noise of the engine, detonations can clearly be heard. Some columns of smoke can be seen, rising from where projectiles hit. The road isn’t really suitable for traveling at 90 miles per hour, but at the front, almost anything goes to avoid possible attacks. Sasha is driving some of his companions to a crucial point at the front, where Ukraine is developing its counteroffensive to locate enemy targets, which they can then bomb with mortars or kamikaze drones. ![]() His rifle - resting on the back seat - bounces up and down with the sharp turns that the vehicle is taking. Sasha dangerously steps on the accelerator of the green camouflaged SUV he’s driving. ![]()
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