Ukrainian drone pilot says the weapons are a 'serious threat' to Russian troops

"Since I have been transferred to this unit to work with drones, every time I put on my goggles and take the joystick, I recall my mother telling me that those video games would not do me any good. Well, if this isn't useful, then what is?"
This Ukrainian drone pilot grew up playing video games, and is now deploying those skills to controlling drones on the frontline.
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[@annerepsch]

Thank you for these drone operators along with all the Ukrainians fighting this evil sick horrible war that Russia started.

[@williamzk9083]

One of the most tedious things is to come across the tens of thousands of fake social media accounts Russia has created to influence social media with their propaganda. They are full of smarmy comments such as $30,000 lancet drone destroys $4 million dollar Leopard (usually after it was dissembled by mines) . Well Ukraine has $600 drones that destroy T-90 tanks.

[@Igualmente89]

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@stevetickner3874]

Stay Strong Brother 💪

[@1midnightfish]

The Revenge of the Gaming Nerd 😂 Glory to Ukraine's defenders! 💙💛

[@salomevalenzuela3937]

Wow Be All the GLORY tp UKRAINE SALUTE to Dtone operator🙏🇺🇦🤞❤😘

[@KatsCats2619]

Be brave like badass Ukraine 🇺🇦 💙💛 Slava Ukraine

[@1jediwitch]

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[@Gayzenon]

Ukrainian ❤

[@johncleere6293]

Victory ✌️ for Ukraine 🇺🇦 needs no explanation defeat for evil 👿 Russia 🇷🇺 allows none

[@SingWithUkraine]

I wish to be as cool and brave as Ukrainians are. Glory and long life to the defenders of Ukraine! ❤🇺🇸

[@Stracciways23]

you know poplulation of america and russia they had to cut the land its too much wait the neighbours owow india owno if you talk about man power you done if you talk about weapons your done you dont have recourses thats why never a war wil start with russa i hope you understand that weapons only cuases dead to the real urkaines not leaders remeber the 1300 billion what do i see woman now go fight because men are dead what oke but equipment is from russia fresh is saw is that the billions we all must send not freely no they took it with force to buy weapons from amerika yes they dont give it for free no what you got to offer

[@deecee1522]

SLAVA UKRAINI 💪💪💪

[@gloriabort2879]

Putin, a wolf in sheep's clothing .

[@edwardbernthal160]

he is no wolf, he is a rabbit dressed up as a wolf.

[@FishandHunt]

@@edwardbernthal160 A mouse dressed as a dwarf

[@alexanderlazarev3570]

​@@edwardbernthal160But bites hard.

[@edwardbernthal160]

@@FishandHunt 🤣🤣🤣if your aim is as perfect as your humour you must have a freezer full of good meat. Have a great day.

[@edwardbernthal160]

@@alexanderlazarev3570 he bites nobody, the aged dwarf has people do the biting for him.

[@FishandHunt]

Day 524 of Russia's disastrous 10 day 'Special Military Operation' against grain, civilians and Orthodox churches! Russia went from 'taking Kyiv in 3 days' to an internal, armed, insurrection in under 17 months. Everything is on time and is going according to plan, we have lost nothing! 😁

[@boota1979]

@FishandHunt In 524 days you still have not managed to get past the propaganda and see the whole picture.

[@christianmusso629]

​@@boota1979said the one with ham slices onto his eyes! 😂

[@boota1979]

@@christianmusso629 What are you talking about?

[@michaeljohnston980]

@@boota1979no kidding let’s get our news from Russia, where the independent journalists have fled and you can go to jail for calling this a war. Be better than that dude

[@enkilm]

They must be made more quiet so the opposition cannot prepare or shoot them.

[@manuelsaucivaldayo8430]

buen trabajo 👍 💪 👏

[@JordiH69]

Have you noticed that Ukrainian soldiers smile while Russian soldiers always look constipated?

[@frankv.2124]

because they are constipated ! lol....

[@Britlurker]

No. Any other fatuous insights you'd like to share?

[@SaharaPowerLove]

Victory to Ukraine. ✌🇺🇦🌹

[@Amradar123]

42000 in a month? Get real. Those numbers are just as real as the huge number of armatas and SU 75s 😂What IS real is that recently russian soldiers learned not to stand in groups on the beach and to watch out for falling glass in 'protected' Moscow.

[@garyfilmer382]

Victory to Ukraine!🇺🇦🔱Slava Ukrajina!🇺🇦🔱

[@KatsCats2619]

Heroyam Slava🇺🇦💙💛

[@Yankeepride03]

🇺🇦🔱🌻🇺🇦

[@fredfravygrubber3146]

Russia has claimed that Ukraine has launched a series of drone strikes on various places on its territory in recent months, including several attacks on Crimea and the country's capital Moscow. (What is good for the Goose must also be good for the Gander as well?) So big thanks must go to Vladimir Putin for being the single best arms provider to UKRAINE as well as being the best NATO recruiter with once neutral countries like Sweden and Finland now joining NATO and as for Prigozhin, with his Wagner group is no way training soldiers for Africa only because this is Russia's way of sneaking soldiers up North to possibly attack Kiev and today also testing Poland’s powerful defences which will become a HUGE MISTAKE on Russia’s part???

[@goenzoy]

You have still not understood this conflict .On many levels

[@christianmusso629]

​@@goenzoytell us Gopnik! 😂

[@johncleere6293]

Russia 🇷🇺 in isolation from ever would be fantastic , good riddance to rude arrogant Russia 🇷🇺

[@michaeljohnston980]

@@goenzoylet me guess, fault of the US? 😂

[@goenzoy712]

@@michaeljohnston980 Nobody is saying that it is US fault.The core problem is that US did turn from a stageholder what made a resolution easier and more achievable into one what complicates things.

[@malcolmbacon7892]

The skill of these drone pilots is amazing . Slava Ukraine я сподіваюсь Путін і Росія горять у пеклі

[@mariamanuelalavinas2418]

How can Radio times do this sort of interviews????

[@Jude_B]

Radio Times is a TV listing magazine 😂😂😂

[@lisagrobbelaar-el6ls]

Well done

[@knightarmor534]

great skills,youll be a hero.

[@bikayraibikayrai6433]

Thank you

[@andrewjenkinson7052]

I auggested on KZbin that commercially available drones could be used by Ukraine before there was even mention of ANY drones in connection with the Russian/ Ukraine war.

[@Britlurker]

Thats amazing! You must be the only person to have thought of it!

[@janewilkin1984]

Drones a game changer not 😂😂

[@andrewjenkinson7052]

@@Britlurker No, but possibly the first to suggest it.

[@uku4171]

The mic audio is only in the left channel

[@Goblin.Slayer]

I hope playing video games save him from artillery shell.

[@pakpala1]

We need a process to mass produce these drones as quickly as possible..

[@michaelillingworth6433]

If this isn't useful, what is. 😂❤ Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦❤❤

[@pitmarkovic4545]

You Right Man 👍Its your Mother only Mother and you so all a different Person and that is good so👍Stay alive on Battalion best wish from an old Solder🤘

[@robertfletcher8964]

it isn't a VR headset its just a 2D screen strapped to their heads.

[@eamonaugustine1262]

They have new style of drones. Just have to make them quieter . If they were quite they would probably see them . Not hear them

[@masasamasasa9728]

Forgive your mother for her comment on you playing games. It's hard for mom's BORN BEFORE COMPUTERS to keep up with the fast developing TECH... She did not see sense that time but now YOU MUST BE HER HERO. Your work is apreciated. Weldone Boy! 👏

[@Britlurker]

When were computers invented?

[@apuuvah]

Uvision HERO drones (loitering munitions) might be good for Ukraine.

[@AlexBong-kv8se]

Sci fi cyberpunk ghost in shell ?

[@lisagrobbelaar-el6ls]

Hit them back

[@user-zp8sp4hj3d]

OpSec! 🤫

[@KidarWolf]

Interesting video, but I want to ask the editor why they elected to place all spoken word on the left side of the speakers, rather than balancing it in the center? It actually makes this a sensory nightmare to listen to.

[@andrigeogiou8420]

The weapon of the ..present times !l Drones ! Ukrainians ,shows the way , . to all those countries with less air power .!

[@mannisalic2141]

Putin is waiting since yesterday.

[@bikayraibikayrai6433]

Thousand drone ware game

[@mohammedilyaspatelpatel3002]

Boys with toys😂😂

[@DaveWoods-ku5em]

Wagner got beaten up at a pub in winsford Cheshire so he knows what he's in for

[@robpotters8583]

💙💛slava ukraine 🫡

[@nickkacures2304]

The hand held toggle switches are a huge disadvantage to drone control the fully functioning drones remotely piloted from simulators are the next level you actually sit in a simulator as if you are flying the drone it has full visual capabilities and aviation instrumentation capabilities . You take off and land each mission from a safe distance as front line troops place the drones as needed and as close to the target as possible and as each mission is completed another can start immediately or drones can be launched and put in a holding position near target and deployed in rapid succession as each target is identified by the simulator pilot they then can deploy another drone immediately also This allows the drone to have a payload that is placed accurately or the drone is the munition itself.Look at the VTOL all electric aircraft they have 150 miles of range and huge carrying capacity they can be outfitted with 50 caliber automatic rifles and make strafing runs up close above trenches (like in the movie Oblivion with Tom Cruise) VTOL’s are highly advanced already look at companies like Joby ,Lilliam,Archer etcetera many are sighing contracts with the military already Archer just signed a $142 million dollar contract yesterday

[@benjaminkoie2405]

again....speak in left channel only. Please correct

[@niteshsin786]

and so does to ukrainian troops.

[@ragingmonk6080]

Such a serious threat the counter offensive is a failure. Bravo mates.

[@alexanderlazarev3570]

Is it really is a threat?

[@alexanderlazarev3570]

@@vintagecostumegems7741 I think you mean just recently destroyed SBU buildings.

[@ant318]

The trolls are sweating now. Was your 300 rubles per month worth it? Bear in mind I have your IP address in St. Petersburg

[@alexanderlazarev3570]

@@ant318 It's easy you know that yourself and you have the wrong address not St Pete, Moscow.

[@ant318]

@@alexanderlazarev3570 what is the ruble worth like 0.002 cent? Don’t forget we have your IP addresses little traitors. You’ll be strung up like Nuremberg.

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[@johncleere6293]

Russia 🇷🇺 will never be forgiven for the killing of innocent 😇 ukranians the must be brought to justice

[@bikayraibikayrai6433]

Distroy drone made new jeneration on this world and victory for ware

[@shueyk2320]

Laughs in Lancets

[@DaveWoods-ku5em]

🕺😎😃😇😂 Wagner boss battered

[@davidfrazier8822]

How??? I dont think so the lancet is a gamechanger😂 for Russia

[@FishandHunt]

Russia: Kherson is Russian forever....now we are leaving! 😁

[@evimccarthy5582]

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[@Stracciways23]

so attacking russia civillians =

[@ant318]

Yes and?

[@Stracciways23]

@@ant318 they die end so keep sending billions please more maby sell your house everthing is oke just send in show us your strenght you see nothing what we can do

[@pierreshasta1480]

I didn't know that the Ukrainian army was now recruiting teenagers. it's sad😢

[@trevorroberts9584]

Most wars have been fought by teenagers over the centuries. Eighteen is a normal minimum age for enlistment. Russia is training (if its as good as their normal training, god knows what will happen to these children), primary school children, and God knows what age they will be calling children up.

[@Frombie_01]

I know what you mean, bro. But it's better than rapists murderers and 70 year old men.

[@londoncalling1757]

Teenage drone pilots are the best ..what's yer problem 😅

[@pierreshasta1480]

His place is in his family, not on the battlefield.

[@londoncalling1757]

@@pierreshasta1480 his place is protecting his country for his future and freedom... yours is just a hollow opinion...that serves russian propaganda..

[@mickser101]

Lol. Anything on the 20k dead ukies in July in the counteroffensive

[@eduwino151]

I thought you killed 100 million ukies in bakmut

[@khiem1939]

Only on the usual purveyors of falacy, i.e., Pravda and the Hindustan Times Tovarisch!

[@FishandHunt]

Day 524 of Russia's disastrous 10 day 'Special Military Operation' against grain, civilians and Orthodox churches! Russia went from 'taking Kyiv in 3 days' to an internal, armed, insurrection in under 17 months. Everything is on time and is going according to plan, we have lost nothing! 😁

[@mickser101]

@@eduwino151 it was really 200 million

[@mickser101]

@@khiem1939 you ok khokhol?

[@joshuapaul2022]

Meanwhile NYT is quoting Ukrainian soldier as saying: “We were shot like on a shooting range.” According to his fellow soldier “his battalion had suffered so many dead and wounded that only 10 men remained at the front line”. Zelenskyy offensive failed miserably (since June 4, 42 000 hapless Ukrainian conscripts were slaughtered in these senseless, suicidal Zelenskyy's meat wave attacks). Zelenskyy regime is on its last legs. Its final demise is a matter of months not years. With catastrophic failures on the frontlines of the war, Zelenskyy regime resorts to terrorist attacks as one Austrian artist did in 1945. Meanwhile Zelenskyy goons are literally rounding up civilians including even disabled in the streets and even without minimal training throwing them into the meat grinder. I suppose it's done not to achieve any breakthroughs, but to avoid immediate front collapse. This desperate cannon fodder tries to surrender or run away at the first opportunity, so the only way to control them is to push them forward at gunpoint.

[@02markcal]

**TROLL ALERT**..**TROLL ALERT**

[@khiem1939]

Of course WE ALL KNOW that josuapaul2022 says it ALL, especially the "2022" when he was hired by Prigozhin for kopecks per line to troll on this venue, been following him closely and most of his falacious posts are taken directly from the Hindustan Times, which makes me believe he's more likely an Indian National!

[@FishandHunt]

Day 524 of Russia's disastrous 10 day 'Special Military Operation' against grain, civilians and Orthodox churches! Russia went from 'taking Kyiv in 3 days' to an internal, armed, insurrection in under 17 months. Everything is on time and is going according to plan, we have lost nothing! 😁

[@joshuapaul2022]

@@FishandHunt 1. Russians never said anything about 3 days. These are just your fantasies. 2 The war is effectively lost by Ukraine.

[@boota1979]

@@02markcal Change the record.

[@gerryvandermee4580]

Hahaha drones are no good without the fire power who u gonna call ghost of ukrain hahahahaha