DRONING ON [FT416:18-19, 424:22, 436:24]
In Ukraine, Chechen troops fighting for Russia under the command of the notorious warlord Ramzan Kadyrov (who may, or may not, be one of the latest victims of the ‘mysterious deaths’ afflicting Russia’s military leadership; see ) claim to have been attacked by mystery drones. They accuse Ukraine of using giant drones equipped with pincers to swoop down and abduct their wounded, dragging them off into the sky without warning. A member of the Chechen Akhmat battalion described the things as “Baba Yaga”, named after the witch from Slavic folklore who abducts and eats children, saying, “The drone is equipped with special devices that look like claws, with which it captures a person who is not able to run away, hide or fight [the drone] off.” He said that the machines hunt at night and are immune to Russian jamming, so can only be destroyed with flamethrowers
