Ukraine's military adapts drone technology to tackle Russian forces in the Black Sea and target helicopters
It remains unclear if the helicopter was shot down by the Ukrainian drones or by Russia’s own air defences, but the attack marks a fresh blow to“Since February 2022, Ukraine has successfully denied Russia dominance of the Black Sea,” Olena Borodyna, a senior geopolitical transition risk adviser at think-tank ODI, told, with some of the main benefits being that it allows Ukraine reach into Russian-controlled territorial waters around the peninsula while putting fewer army personnel at risk.
The architect of Ukraine’s adaptable sea drone technology is Brig-Gen Ivan Lukashevych of the Security Service, the country’s main internal security and intelligence agency., he laid out details of Ukrainian operations and plans to develop the boats that have diminished Russia’s expansive military with cheap but hard to detect drones.