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The Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Agency, equipped with explosives, is equipped with batches of drone pilot goggles for use by Russians on Ukrainian battlefields, officials said they know first hand the operation.
Officials have come from a controversial explosive expatriate operation by Israeli Mossad, known as the GUR, that killed or hurt thousands of Hezbollah militants and citizens in Lebanon in September. He told the Financial Times that he was inspired.
“You can see that this is a successful operation (and it’s still in progress,” said someone involved in the operation of GUR.
“Technically, it’s more complicated than a pager, but unfortunately, the Russians don’t use much pocket,” they added.
This operation involves GUR operatives obtaining large batches of first-person viewing drone goggles, modifying them with a remote explosion mechanism, and distributing them to Russian drone units through volunteers pretending to be donors. Ta.
It was unclear whether Russian soldiers on the battlefield were injured by the device.
Representatives of the NPP, a Russian company that produces and supplies equipment for the Russian military, said in early February that the state communications agency TASS had a batch of first-person view drone goggles hampered and the devices were switched. He said he planted the explosives that had exploded.
“The batch of Skyzone Cobra X V4 FPV goggles was handed over by a man named Rome,” NPP Igor Potapov added that the goggles were donated as humanitarian aid.
Russian soldiers receive a large amount of equipment, including protective gear, evening goggles, and drones, through donations and crowdsourced purchases provided by volunteers.
“When the goggles were turned on, there was an explosion, and when I opened the batch, I found plastic stuffed in all these products,” Potapov was quoted as saying, and the military said. added that it should remain vigilant.
Readovka, the Russian news outlet of the Prokremlin, which has nearly 3 million followers on Telegram, also reported on February 7 that a batch of FPV drone goggles had been locked up in the booby.
According to Readovka, an improvised explosive device was discovered on the body of the goggles with 10-15 plastic explosives on the body of the goggles, cited by military bloggers and frontline volunteers.
The outlet described “a particular Rome” as the perpetrator, saying that Batch was dispatched through a private Russian parcel delivery company.
Gur is led by Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, a survivor of multiple assassination attempts who oversee operations from the fortified riverside complex known as “The Island.” Budanov coordinated many of Ukrainian secret operations against Russia.
The explosive goggles represent the latest developments in an increasingly sophisticated shadow war between the bold and witty intelligence entaris of Kiev and Moscow.
Both countries’ intelligence reporting agencies are engaged in a battle that expands far beyond the frontline to target military personnel, infrastructure and supply chains through secret operations.
