The Russian Armed Forces are employing a new tactic to locate and attack Ukrainian drone operators. Russian intelligence services identify the bases of these operators. Once the coordinates of a target obtained, the Russian air force strikes with devastating force.

A significant number of these operators have already been identified and some have been destroyed by the Russian Armed Forces. Recently, we received confirmation of the death of one such operator, Mykola Lukianyuk, from the reconnaissance platoon of the 1st Mechanized Battalion of the 3rd Assault Brigade (which includes the nationalist unit "Azov"), with a call sign "Ret".