Watch the incredible video showing the Ukrainian Wild Hornet unit on an aerial rampage as they blow up Vlad’s spy drones
THIS is the incredible moment Ukrainian drones shoot down Vladimir Putin’s spy plane in a dogfight caught on video.
During the Wild Hornet airstrike, Ukrainian drones approach the flying Russian vehicles and detonate.
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In a post to X today, the group Wild Hornet claimed to have shot down over 100 of Putin’s unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in drone warfare.
They said: “We have modified our drones to destroy the reconnaissance UAVs of the Russian invaders.
“The video shows only 10% of what the military shot down with these drones.”
Typically, UAVs are reconnaissance drones that do not carry ammunition themselves or suicide drones.
The Wild Hornets have promised to take down many more with the drones, which can fly 90 miles per hour and carry two kilograms of explosives.
It is unclear where the Wild Hornets shot down the Russian drones – whether over Ukrainian or Russian airspace.
Ukraine has invaded Russia and is holding land in Kursk – a surprise attack that has left Putin in turmoil.
The Wild Hornets are a Ukrainian civilian drone-building organization that is helping the country defend itself against Putin’s illegal invasion.
The group was founded by three men after they realized that drone technology had changed the course of the war.
With the outbreak of the conflict, Chinese-made drones gained importance on the front lines.
Therefore, the founders of Wild Hornets started looking for engineers and donations to produce Ukrainian-made FPVs for the military.
One of the founders, Yuriy, told The Sun earlier this year that their group was equipping dozens of units with drones.
In the spring of 2023, Yuri said: “We managed to produce a batch of ten drones, which we sent to the military, and they destroyed two Russian tanks with them.”
“And then we realised that this technology was going to change the course of the war. One £300 drone could disable a tank and another could destroy it completely.”
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“This is how the story of the Wild Hornets began.”
The drones will be equipped with bombs built in the homes of brave Ukrainians.
On the front lines, drones are used as guided missiles, microbombers or unmanned aerial reconnaissance aircraft, and front-line units are desperate to get their hands on them.
Russia also benefits from the use of drones and Ukraine must come up with new ways to destroy them.
A recently released video shows the US Air Force shooting down a drone with a machine gun attached to a helicopter.
The helicopter is chasing a Shahed-136, a so-called kamikaze drone, while the gunner tracks its flight path.
The gunner opens fire on the drone before white smoke rises from it and it descends to the ground.
The US had previously accused Iran of giving Vlad hundreds of them for his brutal attack on Ukraine.
In May, the Wall Street Journal reported that Russia had launched 2,628 Shahed drones in just six months, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Vlad’s use of Iranian drones in 2022 “collaboration with evil.”
Kyiv’s recent drone strikes were also successful, hitting an important oil depot in Rostov and even a city about 800 kilometers from the border – Saratov.
Why was the Ukrainian invasion of Russia so successful?
By Georgie English, foreign news reporter
A daring Ukrainian military advance into Russia’s Kursk region has become the largest attack on the country since World War II.
Kyiv’s armed forces have captured numerous villages, taken hundreds of prisoners and forced tens of thousands of civilians to evacuate.
After more than a week of continuous fighting, Russian troops are still struggling to drive out the invaders.
Why was the Russian military so unprepared?
A long-unguarded border
The Russian regions of Kursk, Bryansk and Belgorod have a 1,165-kilometer-long border with Ukraine – including a 244-kilometer-long section in the Kursk region.
And it enjoyed only symbolic protection before Moscow invaded Ukraine in 2022.
The position has since been reinforced by checkpoints on key roads and, in some places, by field fortifications – but not enough to repel a Ukrainian attack.
Russia’s most powerful units are fighting in eastern Ukraine, leaving the border vulnerable to attack.
Moment of surprise
Ukrainian troops involved in the incursion were reportedly only informed of it one day before their mission began.
This secrecy contrasted with last year’s counteroffensive, when Ukraine openly declared its goal of cutting off the land corridor to annexed Crimea.
Ukraine’s attack failed when troops marched through Russian minefields and were fired upon by artillery and drones.
But in Kursk, Ukrainian troops encountered none of these obstacles.
Battle-hardened units easily overwhelmed the Russian border guards and small infantry units made up of inexperienced conscripts.
The Ukrainians penetrated deep into the region from several directions, encountering little resistance and spreading chaos and panic.
Russia’s slow reaction
The Russian military command initially tried to stop the attack with fighter planes and helicopters.
At least one Russian attack helicopter was shot down and another damaged.
Moscow began to bring in reinforcements and was able to slow down Ukraine’s advance, but was unable to completely block the troops.
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