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The unit CNN visited asked for their names and location to be withheld for their safety. Their operations room is about 15 square meters, with boxes and plastic bags of munitions, multiple piles of drone chassis and propellers, one large TV screen, and two pairs of goggles, more commonly used in gaming. 

“We’ve had days so busy to launched 15 to 20” drones, said one pilotand “got 10 minutes between flights to rest, never imagined this would be my war.” Pilot said that only about a third of those trained are able to operate the goggles extended period, and some experience dizziness or disorientation after use.

This eastern bank has become an unexpected success story. Begun as a series over summer, so Kyiv has augmented its forces on occupied side of the Dnipro River. 

This is to pressured Russian units and Putin costly progress, Ukraine forces can then move toward the Western access route to meet Putin soldiers in the Crimean peninsula.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/12/europe/uk...index.html

Ukraine Figured Out A New Way, Winning Battles: By Grounding Russia’s Drones. It’s not for no reason Russian assault. Is bad to worst.

Avdiivka, a key Ukrainian stronghold in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, seems to be stalling out, indications Ukrainians have deployed their new drone and counter-drone strategy: targeting  radio-jammers, using drones while setting up their own jammers to ground Russian drones.

“The advantage in electronic warfare seems to be holding in this sector,” analyst Donald Hill wrote in fellow analyst Tom Cooper’s newsletter. “The number of Ukrainian drone attacks have increased. A lot. The number of Russian drone attacks have decreased by the same amount.”
That’s encouraging for free Ukraine as the winter deepens and Russia launches its traditional cold-weather attacks in several sectors of the 600-mile front line.

Avdiivka is locus of these winter assaults. After failing to capture the city’s ruins with vehicular attacks and then also failing with infantry attacks that cost them 17,000 casualties, the Russians pivoted to an aerial assault—sending explosive first-person-view drones, some outfitted for night flights, to harry Ukrainian supply lines in the hope of strangling the garrison and forcing it to withdraw. The Ukrainians are grounding the drones before they can attack, and also preventing the Russians from grounding Ukrainian drones, means the Ukrainians’ supply lines might stay open—and the Russians’ supply lines might fray.

“There is no telling how long Ukraine will have this advantage, but it’s currently saving Ukrainian lives,” Hill wrote.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...c341734c55