A video showing a Ukrainian drone destroying a Russian drone using a stick has gone viral on social media platform X. Posted by the user Special Kherson Cat, it shows the unmanned aerial vehicle hovering a few metres above the ground and another one – claimed to be Russian – moving up. A stick is seen hanging from Ukraine’s Mavic drone, which is at a higher altitude. As the Russian drone comes closer, the Ukrainian military piece swings the stick sending the Russian drone crashing to the ground.

Ukrainian Mavic drone downs Russian Mavic using a stick. https://t.co/JLcbN89GMFpic.twitter.com/Nc58muFWRX

— Special Kherson Cat (@bayraktar_1love) June 24, 2024

The video has received more than 32,000 views and several users have commented on it.

“Sustainable warfare, what more could you wish for,” commented one user. “This is not exactly what was referred to as fighting with sticks and stones, but here we are,” said another.

Others mocked the Ukrainian military for using such primitive weapons to fight a modern warfare.

Drones have become a key piece of technology for both sides in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. According to ABC News, Ukraine launched its Unmanned Systems Forces, a new branch of its military focused on drone warfare, in April this year.

Colonel Vadym Sukharevskyi was announced as the new branch’s commander.

The DJI Mavic drones were initially used for reconnaissance and dropping grenades. But gradually, they switched to first-person view drones to attack enemy personnel and vehicles.

Shortly after announcing the new defence department, the Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence

In the last two years, Ukraine has developed a series of different kinds of aerial, land and water drones to help to fight against the Russians when it doesn’t have enough heavy weapons, artillery and jets.

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, centre left, and Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, centre, walk in Odesa, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 6, 2024.
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The sound of a large explosion reverberated around the Ukrainian port of Odesa as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ended a tour of the war-ravaged southern city on March 6.

Mr. Mitsotakis said the delegations were getting into their vehicles when they heard the blast, which he called a “vivid reminder” that Odesa is gripped by the war with Russia. It is one thing to hear about the war and “quite another to experience war firsthand,” Mr. Mitsotakis said.

Mr. Zelensky said the explosion caused an unknown number of dead and wounded. “You see who we’re dealing with, they don’t care where to hit,” he told reporters.

Russian officials made no immediate comment.

Zelenskyy has regularly visited cities and military units on the front line during the war, always in secrecy until after he has left. Foreign leaders have made numerous trips to Ukraine, and they occasionally have had to take refuge in shelters when air raid sirens sound.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen condemned on X, formerly Twitter, what she called the “vile attack” during the Greek visit. She called it a “new attempt at terror” by Russia.

Mr. Zelenskyy showed Mr. Mitsotakis around the destruction in Odesa, where in the most recent major Russian attack 12 people — including five children — were killed when debris from a Russian drone hit an apartment block on March 2.

Mr. Mitsotakis said Odesa held a special place in Greek history as the place where the Filiki Etairia organization was founded that fought for Greek independence from Ottoman rule in the 19th century.