Russia Debuts Long-Range Drone Control System: First Strike Coordinated From Moscow

Russian propagandists released a video showing FPV drone operators sitting in one of the towers of the Moscow City business center and attacking Ukraine.

The Russian state propaganda agency RIA Novosti published news on its telegram channel and website about how the FPV drone operator “Ovod” hit an AFU target near the city of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk region, while the drone was allegedly controlled using the new Orbita system directly from apartments in the business center of Moscow City.

RIA Novosti published a six-minute video showing the coordination process of the drone operators

The Russian agency initially claimed that "a long-range FPV strike drone controlled from Moscow has for the first time hit a Ukrainian military facility in the city of Chasiv Yar" in eastern Ukraine. In another report, it said that the drone was prepared for takeoff by a brigade located near the Ukrainian city. The reports were accompanied by a video showing the coordination of Russian forces during the drone attack. "The target was hit by a com…

Kiev/MOSCOW - Russia's state-run RIA Novosti agency posted on its social network account this morning and later removed a video that showed how drones attacking targets in Ukraine were being driven by operators from skyscrapers in Moscow's Moscow-City business district. But the videos have already been noticed by Russian bloggers and Ukrainian media, who say the report makes Moscow's skyscrapers a legitimate military target.

RIA Novosti, the main mouthpiece of Russian propaganda, has published two videos on its Telegram channel aimed at promoting service in the Russian Armed Forces, specifically in the drone service section. The footage shows drone operators sitting at control consoles located in a Moscow office building. The commentator explains that the "drone operators" remotely control FPV drones from several hundred kilometers away from the front line. To confi…