‘Our task is to laugh at these enemies’: the Ukrainian unit posting drone videos of Russian soldiers’ last moments

The Guardian reports on a Ukrainian drone unit that's built a following by posting videos of kamikaze drones chasing Russian soldiers to their deaths, a genre that's spread across social media over the past year and a half. The videos are the brainchild of Robert Brovdi, head of Ukraine's unmanned systems forces, who founded the unit known by his call sign, Magyar's Birds. The creators reject any moral qualms about the footage, saying it's meant to serve as a warning that death is waiting for those who join Vladimir Putin's invasion.

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