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Cossacks of the Russian Ladoga squadron of the Don Volunteer Cossack brigade shared details of the recent battle which took place near the Antonovsky Bridge in the Kherson region. The use of small FPV drones allowed Russian fighters to rescue a group of scouts surrounded by Ukrainian troops.
A group of Russian scouts launched a raid in the Ukrainian foothold on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River. Their operation failed and Ukrainian forces spotted them and opened mortar fire. As a result, the Russian fighters were surrounded in one of the destroyed houses and could not rapidly get out of it, as some of them were wounded.
Ukrainian drones corrected mortar fire and threw grenades at Russian intelligence officers. At the same time, the Russian artillery could not detect and destroy the maneuverable mortar squads of the AFU.
Russian cossacks of the Ladoga squadron of the Don Cossack Brigade of the Volunteer Assault Corps came to the rescue. They launched 6 FPV drones called Upyr, equipped with high-explosive and thermobaric charges. The drones tracked down the Ukrainian mortars. One of the positions was immediately destroyed, as well as an observation post of Ukrainian drone operators.
The Ukrainian shelling was suspended. A group of Russian scouts were able to break out of the encirclement and return to Russian positions without losses. As a result, 6 Russian drones hit 6 targets. FPV drone strikes additionally destroyed one Ukrainian warehouse with drones and two more warehouses with ammunition. The sixth drone hit a Ukrainian pickup truck.
