Russian border, in the Kharkiv region. Pavlov does not flinch. Not even when, surprised by the crash of a mortar shell falling nearby, the other men of his battalion hunker down. Covered in a camouflage net, he continues to guide his drone over Russian territory.
“Here, that’s their trench.” Then it enlarges the image. “Here are the Russians, moving. And that is a camouflaged piece of artillery.” The eye of the drone films everything. Down to the smallest detail. Even a man who arrives at a farm and gets off his motorbike.
“I recognize him. He was the one who was in the trench just now, next to the howitzer,” says Pavlov. He then zooms in on the tanks, so that we can clearly see the letter Z, symbol of the special operation ordered by Putin. His cautious comrades took shelter in the thickets. This is the only way not to be spotted in turn by the eye of Russian drones.
We are here in no man’s land, land of no man. The border of the Russian Federation is barely two kilometers away and, in this no man’s land, anything can happen.
Pavlov’s unit is part of an intelligence battalion operating in hostile territory. The soldiers move in small groups of five to seven. With no more than two vehicles. “Today we lay anti-tank mines and we spy on their positions with the drones”, explains the man.
Because there is another war being played out every day in Ukraine. It is much quieter, the media talk about it less, but it is no less crucial than the one raging on the ground. This is the spy drone war.
Small and quiet, they are used to spot enemy positions. They provide detailed, extremely valuable information that can turn out to be decisive
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