Defense Ministry shows footage of FPV drone strikes on AFU armored vehicles on the Kupyansk direction

The Rubicon center's FPV drones have destroyed armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Kupyansk direction. The footage was distributed by the Defense Ministry on Sunday, February 16.

"The Defense Ministry has published footage of the defeat of AFU armored vehicles in the Kupyansk direction by FPV drone calculations of the Russian Defense Ministry's Rubicon test center for advanced unmanned technologies," the ministry said in a statement.

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