Ukraine’s drone strike isn’t just an attack — it’s first-person warfare

It was the Ukrainian military’s longest-ranged attack yet, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but it also pulls back the curtain on an elaborate campaign to put raw footage of the strike in front of a global audience. On top of the damage to Russian forces, the dissemination of the videos was a clear goal of the mission. Ukrainian journalist Vitaly Glagola seemed to be one of the first to share them, writing in a post on Telegram (machine-translated by The Verge) that he had obtained footage of the drone strike from sources inside the SSU.

Author: Emma Roth

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