Ukrainian Tanks QR Code Drone Targeting Claim Debunked

Once his hospital received a wounded soldier who had been wearing a tourniquet for more than two months. Standing next to his snow-covered tank, commander Bohdanov said he believes such weapons are being rendered irrelevant and should be scaled back in favour of more long-range artillery.

Kyiv has pioneered cheap and mass-produced machines to battle Russian versions of the Shahed attack drone

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that Ukraine will work with the Pentagon and Gulf allies to share what it has learned during four years of drone warfare. And a spokesman for Wild Hornets, the Ukrainian drone company, confirmed to CBS News that it is "ready to help Ukraine's strategic partners if called upon to do so."

Zelenskyy praised Belgium’s decision to seize the tanker. “This particular vessel has long been under US, EU and UK sanctions, but nonetheless continued to illegally transport Russian oil using a false flag and forged documents,” he wrote on X. “We welcome this strong action against Moscow’s floating purse and thank France for supporting the operation.” · Two women and a man were injured when drone debris fell on a house in the Russian Black Sea city of Novorossiysk, the local authorities said on Monday.

"I think all significant technological changes have already happened and that the course of the war now depends on who will first run out of soldiers who can fight under conditions of total drone dominance," he said. This article was originally published in Ukrainian.

Ukraine, which has years of experience in downing Russia’s Iran-made drones, wants to assist the US and Israel.

Drones of all shapes and sizes buzz in the sky over the front line 24/7, risking Russia’s use of large columns of soldiers. In 2022, these columns failed to enter Kyiv. “I heard them. And I was killing them,” serviceman Bohdan Yavorsky told Al Jazeera. On the invasion’s third day, he and 21 other servicemen and barely-armed volunteers ambushed and immobilised a column of three dozen Russian tanks and armoured vehicles in Bucha, north of Kyiv.

Escadrone Pegasus and the Vyriy Drone Molfar are two examples of the low-cost drones that rapidly evolved in 2022–23 during the war. In 2022, the UK Government announced it was providing "hundreds of loitering munitions" to Ukraine. On 9 November 2023, Ukrainian soldiers claimed to have used a civilian-donated FPV drone to destroy a Russian Tor missile system on the Kupiansk front, showcasing the potential cost-effectiveness of fielding such munitions.

Infantry soldier Viktor of Ukraine’s 58th Motorized Brigade smokes while standing in a frontline trench in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on April 13, 2024. ... People look at smoke rise over a building of the Ukrainian government headquaters after Russian drone and missile strikes, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on September 7, 2025.