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.

A Ukrainian drone was chased by two Russian combat helicopters and an airplane in the occupied territory of Crimea. A video of the dramatic chase has been posted by Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) on X (formerly Twitter) and other social media platforms. Local outlets like news agency RBC-Ukraine said that the drone was unharmed and returned to the base intact. The video, taken by the camera installed on the drone, shows a helicopter chasing the Ukrainian military asset and vanishing from the screen after sometime.

“Two enemy helicopters and a plane failed to shoot down the Ukrainian drone during a long chase,” DIU said in its post on X.

Два ворожих вертольоти та літак за час тривалої погоні так і не змогли збити український безпілотник (ВІДЕО)

https://t.co/yY4iJul8KJpic.twitter.com/w8DBlzwr5i

— Defence intelligence of Ukraine (@DI_Ukraine) September 1, 2023

According to Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence, the drone was flying in the area of Cape Tarkhankut when Russia scrambled its jet and choppers.

“Some crooked hands,” it quoted the UAV operator as saying about the encounter.

This comes on a day when Russian air defences destroyed a drone approaching Moscow. “There were no casualties or damage, according to initial reports. Emergency services are on the scene,” city’s mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on Telegram.

Moscow has been targeted by a barrage of Ukrainian drone attacks in recent weeks after Kyiv vowed in July to “return” the conflict to Russia.

On Thursday, air defences in the Voskresensky district, about 60 kilometres from Moscow, destroyed a Ukrainian drone approaching the capital.

Air defences also destroyed a drone approaching Moscow on Monday, as well as two others over the Bryansk region bordering Ukraine.