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Ukraine's military intercepts Russian drone in Donbas

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Ukraine's military intercepts Russian drone in Donbas
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The vehicle that entered Ukrainian territory was identified as an Orlan-10, a battlefield surveillance drone exclusively operated by Russia. The Ukrainian military reported on Nov. 16 that the machine was captured intact.

“The winged spoil of war is a piece of unimpeachable evidence and a documented confirmation of the presence of Russian military forces, weaponry and hardware in Ukraine,” a spokesperson for the Ukrainian military said.

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Illia Ponomarenko

Former Defense reporter

Illia Ponomarenko was a defense and security reporter at the Kyiv Independent in 2021-2023. He has reported about the war in eastern Ukraine since the conflict’s earliest days. He covers national security issues, as well as military technologies, production, and defense reforms in Ukraine. Besides, he gets deployed to the war zone of Donbas with Ukrainian combat formations. He has also had deployments to Palestine and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as an embedded reporter with UN peacekeeping forces. Illia won the Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellowship and was selected to work as USA Today's guest reporter at the U.S. Department of Defense.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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