Posted on 06/07/2022 4:00:52 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
The column of Russian military vehicles that bore down on Kyiv in the early days of the war was brought to a smoldering halt because a 15-year-old boy was helping to aim Ukrainian artillery.
Ukrainian teenager Andrii Pokrasa flew his drone over the Russian forces, relaying photos and coordinates to artillery units, effectively saving the capital city in late February, Canadian outlet Global News reported.
“He’s a real hero, a hero of Ukraine,” Yurii Kasjanov, a commander with Ukraine’s unmanned recon unit, told the outlet. “He was the only one who was experienced with drones in that region.”
Pokrasa said he was approached by Ukraine’s civil defense when they were looking for the exact coordinates of the Russian column.
“They provided us information where approximately the Russian column could be. Our goal was to find the exact coordinates and provide the coordinates to the soldiers,” he said.
“It was one of the biggest columns that was moving on the Zhytomyr road and we managed to find it because one of the trucks turned on its lights for a long time,” he added.
The teenager said he was ambivalent about the death of Russian troops that resulted from his information.
“First of all I was so happy, but also it was people there,” he said. “They were occupiers but anyway they were people.”
Pokrasa said he’d only purchased his first drone last summer, but quickly got hooked, flying nearly every day.
When the war began and he was approached to help spot Russian formations, he said his neighbors feared the drone would make them a target. So Pokrasa said he and his father would launch their sorties from a nearby field at night.
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So the Ukes identified a 15-year old target for the russkies? Not very nurturing of them, is it?
And is he a tranny too? ‘Cause that’d make it even better!
I’ve had my fill of Ukrainian war propaganda, from ‘Ghost of Kiev’ to daily reports of Russian colonels/generals whatever dead to stuff like this.
Russian propaganda obviously exists too, but it doesn’t have the mainstream Western press megaphone this garbage does.
LOL, now it’s time for little Pavel stories!
And there’s more of this BS here than on any other site.
Pavlik, that’s that young Soviet hero. I looked it up. LOL, they are hitting all the propaganda high notes.
Ditto.
Pretty close to a war crime.
His drone had night vision?
You do know that should the russkies capture him, which is not an unrealistic possibility, this kid gets to spend the rest of this life in a Siberian prison camp, right?
But I guess a young boy’s life is worth the propaganda spin for an afternoon, though.
No...he specifically said he was able to find the convoy because a dumb Russian truckdriver "had his lights on for a long time". Although it wouldn't be that difficult to get a night vision camera...there are plenty of them available.
Is this a real N.Y. Post column? Clicking on either the top or bottom doesn’t work?
The Russian were running at night with the lights on
Haha. Drone-boy, he’s the rainman of pilotless aircraft. A miracle worker of modern combat.
These Ukrainians are very good military tacticians.
Here’s footage of the downed aircraft. Amazing, and Fact-Checked by MSM! (10 sec video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0U9KwHa0jQ&t=9s
Irresponsible media and authorities. Why announce the boy’s identity ?
Alternate Pravda Headline: “Ukraine Armed Forces Exploit Child Labor!”
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