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Dramatic video footage captures the moment a flesh-melting Ukrainian drone sets ablaze a tree line hiding Russian military positions. The UAV approaches the trees before spewing out a wall of molten thermite that scorches the ground below it. The drone leaves a trail of fire behind as it disappears into the night sky after its devastating attack. The video was posted to social media by Ukraine's 60th Mechanised Brigade. “Strike Drones are our wings of vengeance, bringing fire straight from the sky!” the brigade wrote on its Facebook page.

A Russian private military company (PMC) told the Express that their commander stands by his calls for the overthrow of Vladimir Putin. Georgy Zakrevsky is the founder of the Paladin PMC, one of many shadowy military groups like the former Wagner Group militia, that are linked to the Kremlin. The militia commander launched a blistering attack on the Russian president during a video recording in which he blamed all the military failures in Ukraine on Putin personally. He also went on to accuse Putin of causing all of Russia's economic and social ills, as he urged the military to rise...