Drone rains down molten thermite on Ukrainian battlefield

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Drone rains down molten thermite on Ukrainian battlefield

A drone rained down molten thermite on the battlefield in southern

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, setting alight a line of trees in the latest innovation in

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Both Ukrainian and Russian sources have claimed credit for a video circulating on social media that appears to show a first-person view drone being used to ***** down the forest belt.

The footage shows the unmanned aerial vehicle pouring a stream of white hot metal from above as it moves methodically from left to right across the position.

Such treelines are characteristic of the fighting between

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in southern Ukraine.

The landscape is littered with man-made belts of forestry – which were planted as windbreaks to prevent topsoil and newly sown seeds being blown away – that separate vast agricultural fields.

They serve as perfect areas of cover to defend against armies attempting to advance across wide, open fields.

Open intelligence researchers geolocated the footage of the thermite-laden drone to a treeline in Russian-controlled

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, near the village of Ukrains’ke.

Competing claims

In one report, the drone’s use was attributed to a company of Ukraine’s 108th Territorial Defence Brigade.

Rybar, a prominent Russian military blogger, also claimed credit for the ******* in a social media post.

The Telegraph could not verify either of the claims.

The footage was, however, the first time a drone had dropped thermite on an entire treeline.

Ukrainian forces have previously dropped thermite munitions through the hatches of abandoned

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to ******** them.

Thermite scatters thousands of tiny pieces of metal that ***** between 2,000 to 2,500 degrees Celsius, meaning it can ***** through the steel hulls of lightly armoured vehicles.

Russia has been accused of using

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to target civilian areas, which is considered a war ******.

Both Ukrainian and Russian forces have continued to push the boundaries of drone warfare since the beginning of Vladimir ******’s

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in February 2022.

Kyiv’s men have often turned to homemade one-way ******* drones to help overcome Moscow’s huge advantage in

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Ukrainian engineers have since developed sturdier, long-range drones that have been used against

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in absence of permission from the likes of the US and *** to use

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for such strikes.

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