Russia has retreated on the battlefield but continues to strike Ukraine with Iranian-made Shahed drones, so Ukraine's drone hunters patrol at night to shoot them down.
MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — The pickup truck bounced along a rutted dirt track until it came to a stop on a sandy knoll. It was almost midnight. A half-moon revealed waves lapping at a small beach as four Ukrainian soldiers — drone hunters — stepped out of the truck and waited for the sound.
Mykolaiv, which until recently was just 20 miles from the front, was one of the first cities targeted with Shaheds, and the city quickly cobbled together mobile anti-drone units drawing personnel from the police, army, territorial defense units and national guard.Russia initially deployed the Shaheds at all hours, the drone hunters said. But the noisy, slow-moving machines were easily shot down in daylight, so they now fly mostly between midnight and dawn.
One unit member normally uses a gunlike thermal sensor to spot the Shahed, before switching on a laser beam to illuminate it so others can shoot it down. At a meeting Monday, Ukraine’s senior military and political leaders discussed efforts to repair infrastructure systems and protect them from further Russian airstrikes. The Kremlin, meanwhile, denied reports that it might abandon the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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