Ken Harbaugh
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Well, it was a long time in the making.
You don't just get to show up with a unit like this.
I embedded...
This was last October with one of the teams, a small three-man team that goes out on the highway of death that runs through Kherson along the Dnipro River and is literally the last line of defense for the Russian FPV drones.
And I'll explain that term in a second.
But the Russians launched these drones across the river to attack civilian targets.
And this is one of the โ I mean, they've got to be some of the bravest people in the
well, not just in the Ukrainian military, but in the history of combat, because they literally put themselves out there as bait to soak up these suicide drones that the Russians are sending before they're able to kill civilians.
And that's the Russian tactic.
The UN, in fact, declared that the Russian drone operations in Kherson are tantamount to a depopulation campaign.
They are trying to terrorize and depopulate civilians
these areas of Kherson.
In fact, all of Kherson.
They want it back.
They occupied it for many months at the beginning of the war until they were driven out.
And this, in a way, is their revenge.
Killing, and I've seen the tapes, because the Russians post them themselves, killing old ladies walking back from the market with arms loaded with shopping bags.
That's who they're going after, and they brag about it when they get these killed.
They're shooting them down with rifles, Amy.
It's wild.