Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in April that Kyiv had a plan for a new offensive, pending further military assistance from Washington.
Ukraine’s military is using drones to lay mines along the front line ahead of an offensive, according to a Russian politician with close links to Vladimir Putin.
The comments were made on the Telegram social media channel by Dmitry Rogozin, the former director general of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, who now serves as a senator in Ukraine’s Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia region.
He said Kyiv’s use of domestically produced unmanned aerial vehicles is likely to be the prelude to a Ukrainian attack.
« Ukrainian Baba Yagas are now used by the enemy at night only for remote mining of all our frontline roads », wrote Rogozin on Tuesday. « This is usually done before an offensive. »
Rogozin has expressed his concerns about these drones before, posting a series of images in April of what he said were the devices and describing them as an « extremely dangerous » weapon that can conduct reconnaissance and drop munitions.
