Ukraine drone championship: from the frontline to war games
Europe • Oct 6, 2025, 10:04 AM
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On Ukraine’s front lines, drones play an ever more crucial role. This weekend some of the fighters took a short break for an event that they say was fun, but also crucial to improving tactics and skills: “Wild Drones”, or the national drone championships. Drones of all shapes and sizes gathered for a series of different contests at the Kamianets Podilsky fortress in the south of the country. Report by FRANCE 24 correspondent in Ukraine, Gulliver Cragg.
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