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Why did Russia strike a Ukrainian vegetable seller with a drone · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: The video that you're about to see is pretty disturbing.
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  Speaker 1: The man's name is Yuri. He says he was setting
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  Speaker 1: up his stall in Kirsan in southern Ukraine when the
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  Speaker 1: drone arrived and started chasing him. He tries repeatedly to
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  Speaker 1: shake it off, but the drone won't let him go. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: it drops and extraordines Amazingly, Yuri survived. The drone hit
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  Speaker 1: his vehicle, and Yuri somehow managed to escape with shrapnel wounds.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of the most graphic examples of what
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  Speaker 1: the Ukrainians called the human safari. That's when civilians, not soldiers,
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  Speaker 1: but civilians are hunted down and attacked by drones piloted
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  Speaker 1: from nearby Russian positions.
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  Speaker 2: And let's start by focusing some more on that drone
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  Speaker 2: attack in Hursan. We heard a little from our correspondent
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  Speaker 2: Paul Adams. He can explain more now about the response
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  Speaker 2: from the United Nations to this type of attack.
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  Speaker 1: People in Harsan have been living with this threat since
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  Speaker 1: the end of twenty twenty two, when the city was liberated.
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  Speaker 1: The UN documented the tactic in a report last year,
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  Speaker 1: saying that Russian troops recurrently killed and injured civilians using drones.
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  Speaker 1: The incident has been described as a barbarrett war crime
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  Speaker 1: by Ukraine's Foreign minister and President. Zelenski said the world
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  Speaker 1: needed to see that Russian soldiers enjoy tormenting and killing people.
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  Speaker 2: Military analyst for the Security Brief, mikey Kay explains what
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  Speaker 2: might have happened.
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  Speaker 3: Here incidents of this nature. This isn't the first they've
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  Speaker 3: been recorded since twenty twenty four. It's all of the
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  Speaker 3: Russians actually using well that they're using sort of a
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  Speaker 3: conglomerate of drones, if you like, usually through what's called FPV,
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  Speaker 3: which is first person view, so that's where the controller
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  Speaker 3: actually wears a set of goggles and conceive the drone
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  Speaker 3: where it travels from a first person view perspective. And
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  Speaker 3: they're using a number of drones of interest, all with FPV.
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  Speaker 3: The first one is sort of the Kamikazi drone, it's
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  Speaker 3: like the Race drone, if you like. And the reason
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  Speaker 3: they're using that is because it can travel up to
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  Speaker 3: speeds of between one hundred and fifty and two hundred
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  Speaker 3: kilometers an hour. But they're also using the sort of
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  Speaker 3: the commercially viable drones as well, such as the DJI
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  Speaker 3: quad copters, and then on top of that, they're now
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  Speaker 3: using what's called fo FPV, which is fiber optic first
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  Speaker 3: person few drones. So it's it's that triumvira if you like,
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  Speaker 3: of drones that are causing this chaos.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Mikey mentioned fiber optic drones there, and we've had
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  Speaker 2: some footage from the Ukrainian military. It shows a forest
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  Speaker 2: in bob Chansk in the Harkiev region with lots of
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  Speaker 2: these fiber optic cables left strewn across the tree tops.
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  Speaker 2: Mikey has more on what fiber optic drones are and
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  Speaker 2: how they work.
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  Speaker 3: A fiber optic drone is a drone that uses a
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  Speaker 3: fiber optic cable to connect the drone to the controllers.
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  Speaker 3: So why are they using that? What it does is
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  Speaker 3: it prevents the radio frequency signal that would come from
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  Speaker 3: the controller to the person flying the drone to the
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  Speaker 3: actual drone itself. It prevents that signal from being jammed
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  Speaker 3: because it's running down a fiber optic cable. Now, there
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  Speaker 3: are trade offs. That fiber optic cable is around wrapped
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  Speaker 3: around a spool, a small cylinder if you like. That
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  Speaker 3: can either be contained on the top of the drone
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  Speaker 3: or underneath the drone, and the trade off is is
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  Speaker 3: that the bigger the spool obviously the greater distance, usually
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  Speaker 3: between fifteen and twenty five kilometers, but that adds to
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  Speaker 3: the weight of the drone, which again slows it down.
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  Speaker 3: So it's always this trade off between how much fiber
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  Speaker 3: optic they want and the ranger that needs to go
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  Speaker 3: and what it needs to do.
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  Speaker 2: The use of drones is changing the battlefield so much
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  Speaker 2: so that President Putin has named the man who will
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  Speaker 2: lead Russia's Unmanned Systems Forces. That's a newly established branch
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  Speaker 2: of the military that will be responsible for drone warfare.
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  Speaker 2: Ukraine already has a similar of force. Military analyst mikey
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  Speaker 2: Kay can explain how and why drone warfare has become
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  Speaker 2: so important during this conflict.
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  Speaker 3: Since twenty twenty three. In my thirty two years of
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  Speaker 3: experience in warfare and combat, the battlefield has changed forever.
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  Speaker 3: There is no doubt in my mind about that. And
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  Speaker 3: that's basically through an ecosystem of drones that have been
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  Speaker 3: developed and weaponized. So let's sort of talk about the
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  Speaker 3: reconnaissance drones. They're absolutely critical across the battlefield because they're
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  Speaker 3: the eyes and ears of the infantry, and why they're
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  Speaker 3: being used is not just to identify potential infantry targets,
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  Speaker 3: but also to take out those operators that are flying
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  Speaker 3: the counter unmanned aerial systems drones as well. Then you've
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  Speaker 3: got the decoy drones. The decoy drones are used effectively,
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  Speaker 3: they're cheap, They throw them up in the air and
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  Speaker 3: that what that does is it expends laid air defense
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  Speaker 3: systems and then behind that they'll put in the one
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  Speaker 3: way attack drones. These these v wing drones that we've
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  Speaker 3: seen not just using the Persian Gulf like the Shahed
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  Speaker 3: one three six, but also variants like the Gharan two
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  Speaker 3: that have been used by Russia on Ukraine for absolutely
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  Speaker 3: years now. Then you've obviously got the counter drones and
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  Speaker 3: we're talking interceptors. They can be called the Hornet as
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  Speaker 3: the p one son, but these are absolutely critical in
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  Speaker 3: taking out that ecosystem of drones that are using to
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  Speaker 3: target infantry on the ground as well. And this is
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  Speaker 3: a rapidly evolving technology that is still rapidly evolving, and
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  Speaker 3: the technology actually changes about every two weeks at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: While drones have become the symbol of this war. Missiles
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  Speaker 2: are still playing a huge role. A stark reminder is
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  Speaker 2: the latest wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine, which killed
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  Speaker 2: at least twenty one people. Ukraine's air force wasn't able
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  Speaker 2: to intercept any of the ballistic missiles Russia used in
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  Speaker 2: these latest attacks because it's run out of interceptors, although
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  Speaker 2: it did report shooting down most of the drones are Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: Correspondent Dan Johnson has been to the site of one
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  Speaker 2: of the strikes in the Kiev region.
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  Speaker 4: We're at the place where at least one Russian missile
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  Speaker 4: hit last night. This is a rural railway station where
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  Speaker 4: people were waiting for a train. That's why eight people
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  Speaker 4: were killed here when this missile exploded. There's already an
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  Speaker 4: enormous clear up job here to recover the bodies of
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  Speaker 4: those who lost their lives, but also to fix the
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  Speaker 4: railway lines and the electricity wires in order to get
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  Speaker 4: the trains running again. It's not clear why this station
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  Speaker 4: would have been hit, but there is a couple of
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  Speaker 4: distribution warehousers not far from here that we've seen smoldering.
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  Speaker 4: They were on fire last night, and there were more
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  Speaker 4: casualties linked to those attacks. There were twenty eight ballistic
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  Speaker 4: missiles fired by Russia last night, none of them intercepted
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  Speaker 4: by Ukrainian air defenses. Is that because they've run out
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  Speaker 4: of interceptors? Is it because they're having to ration their
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  Speaker 4: supplies so carefully given the shortage, We've had no clear
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  Speaker 4: answer from the Ukrainian air forces, who are usually open
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  Speaker 4: in discos seeing their failures and their successors. The President
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  Speaker 4: has given the strongest signal that he could that without
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  Speaker 4: more Patriot missiles interceptors to bring down the Russian strikes,
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  Speaker 4: we will see more of this devastation, destruction and loss
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  Speaker 4: of life across Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: And that's all you need to know about how drones
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  Speaker 2: are changing the battlefield in the Ukraine War.