Russian FPV drone strikes in Ukraine's Donbas region on the rise
Europe • Oct 16, 2025, 6:25 PM
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Attacks by First-Person View or FPV drones are more and more frequent in the Donbas region of Ukraine. Even Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, further north, are being hit. Sloviansk is where the Donbas war started when it was briefly occupied by Russian-backed forces in 2014. FRANCE 24's correspondent Gulliver Cragg reports from Sloviansk and Kharkiv.
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