It is evening in Ukraine's east. In one section of the Ukrainian-Russian front, a group of soldiers is leaving the unit, having loaded three large boxes into a pickup truck. After driving some distance, the truck stops.
The soldiers take the boxes off the truck, one by one, and take out large quadcopters. The size of a drone is impressive: the distance between its four motors is over a metre. The team releases the blades, checks the work of Starlink satellite communication system, which is integrated into the drone from the above, attaches ammunition from below, and reports to someone on the radio that they are ready.
The blades begin to spin, making a distinctive alarming hum, and the drone takes off. Everything looks like a normal mission, but there is one caveat. There is no pilot among the people who unloaded the drone and are now watching it take to the sky.
The person who is flying the drone is currently about 500 kilometres away from the take-off point, in Kyiv. From a warm and comfortable office in the capital's Podil district, the Nemesis drone operator guides it to the point that the reconnaissance gave him. The length of the route is to be a record 27 kilometres for such drones.
At the necessary point, the camera is lowered perpendicular to the ground, and a Russian tank, well camouflaged for the night time, is visible in the drone’s lens. The cameraman presses the button to release the ammunition. A few seconds later, a bright explosion occurs in the location of.
