It’s the charge of the not-so-light brigade.
A band of ramshackle Russian forces were recently caught sneaking through Ukrainian lines — but drones quickly caught the crew and eliminated them, shocking footage shows.
The troop of mounted soldiers was intercepted on a roadway in the Donetsk region, with Ukrainian soldiers suspecting they were riding horses in an effort to go undetected, RadioFreeEurope reported.
But the stealth mission didn’t pan out — with footage from a Ukrainian drone capturing the moment the Russians were ambushed.
The soldiers were seen cowering from the drone as it zeroed in, while attempting to ride away as the killing machine hunted them down.
A screen the drone was being operated from ominously read “bomb armed.”
“You feel sorry for the horses,” a Ukrainian drone operator told RadioFreeEurope. “Really sorry.”
The Ukrainians suspected the horses stealth-attempts because their drones had encountered Russians creatively trying to pass through the same corridor in recent weeks — employing obvious attempts to be quieter each time.
Russian soldiers on horseback tried in vain to flee from Ukrainian drones when they were caught on a road. Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty Russians are suspected of using horses to try to sneak around Ukrainian lines without being detected. Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty “Last week seven motorcyclists were driving along,” the Ukrainian soldier said.
“They were destroyed. There were four-wheelers, too. They realized we detected them from the noise of their engines, so they tried electric four wheelers. That didn’t work either.”
Drones have played a critical role defending against Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s more than four-year-old invasion of Ukraine.
Kyiv has been especially adept at leveraging the cutting-edge technology — with the overwhelming numbers of soldiers Russia has thrown to the front lines forcing the smaller, war-torn nation to become experts at drone warfare.
Moscow is estimated to be losing about $100 million a day from Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil infrastructure.
Last spring it also hid drones deep behind enemy lines and wiped out Russia’s most critical fleet of bombers.
