Hunted By Russian FPV Drones
By: Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine ??
Lupareve Of the thousand souls that once populated this settlement before the war, very few remain today. The last burial mounds are still open, while others have been destroyed, as the Russian Armed Forces did not even spare the local cemetery.
The capital of the oblast it belongs to, Mykolaiv, is just over 20 km away, but from an equal distance in the opposite direction, the Russians have been shelling Lupareve for four years. Attentive readers will have noticed that death by FPV looms within that range, which is why the latest video report wereleasedon this La Ragiones YouTube channel ends on an open note we prefer not to show.
While we were filming, an FPV drone reached us. We managed to hear it before it was too late, and despite having no other shelter around us besides a small shack already eroded by the war, we managed to find cover.
Just yesterday, in the oblast from which we are writing, Russian drone operators caused around twenty casualties among the local civilian population. In the oblasts of Donetsk, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, and Kyiv the areas most exposed to FPVs like the one we miraculously avoided the trend is similarly severe and increasing.
Just a few days ago, weexplainedfrom those very regions that 96% of casualties, including those among Russian soldiers, are due to Ukrainian drone strikes. Increasingly precise, lethal, and deep-reaching, Russian strikes unfortunately also strike in the same way. With the huge difference thatRussian drone operators intentionally target civilians: media workers, rescuers, evacuees, and volunteers are prime targets, which, as in our case, they pursue on sight.
So much so that all the recent UN/OHCHRdataand independentreportsconfirm that since 2022, the overwhelming majority of civilian casualties (around 97% in 2025) have occurred in territory controlled by Kyiv, mainly caused by Russian long-range weapons such as drones and other missiles.
Since Russias full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, over 15,000 Ukrainian civilian deaths have beendocumented, withpeaksin 2025.
Since the start of this year, the Russian Federation has deployed approximately 700,000 kamikaze drones in the hottest kill zones, with apeaklast week of 67.000.
In March, Russian attacksincreasedin intensity by 40% compared to February, with a total of 255,900 munitions fired at Ukraine, resulting in at least 66 civilian deaths.Accordingto UN data, over the past month, short-range drones have become the deadliest weapon for the Ukrainian civilian population.
As weexplainedin connection with the ceasefire violated by the Russian Federation during the alleged Easter truce and the more recentoneon May 9th whichendedwith 24 deaths (including three children) and 48 injuries in Kyiv alone the Russian occupiers are using FPV drones to attack trucks, gas stations, freight and passenger rail convoys, buses, taxis, and other civilian vehicles, aiming to compromise Ukrainian logistics at every level.
For this reason, the country is strengthening its anti-drone facilities on key routes. At a rate of approximately 1 km per day, since the beginning of the year, Ukrainian technicians have successfullyinstallednetworks and other multi-layered passive defense systems on 371 km of roads in the eight aforementioned regions.
These estimates, from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, are extremely high considering the conditions in which those operators are forced to work.
What has haunted us is the type of threat that today makes many war reports impossible and any traditional approach obsolete.
And it wasnt the only one, because as we were returning to safer areas than Lupareve, another FPV drone stalked us on an open stretch of road, only to be neutralized by the Ukrainian defenders.
Once they enter terminal guidance, those remotely operated drones have such low latency that evasive maneuvers are impossible.
Over the course of the day, another 50 to 55 long-range, high-explosive drones flew over the Kherson Oblast in broad daylight, coming under fire from the Ukrainian PPO. Such attacks are so frequent, however, that even private companies are now considering equipping themselves with remote-controlled machine gun turrets operated by trained operators.
If until recently thestatedgoal was to produce one million drones a year, that figure will soon be used in just one quarter.
Proof that times and warfare have changed.
In 1.543 days of war, we recorded over 250 videos from ground zero and wrote more than 1,500 articles.
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被俄羅斯FPV無人機追擊
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
翻譯：旺財球球
烏克蘭前線報道??
盧帕列韋戰前這個定居點曾居住有上千餘人，如今僅存寥寥數人。最後幾座墓塚仍未封閉，有些則已被摧毀，俄羅斯武裝部隊甚至不放過當地的墓園。
（圖：Alla與我在烏克蘭盧帕列韋為本文報道，防禦工事就在她前方版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
所屬州首府尼古拉耶夫僅在20多公裏之外，但在相反方向同樣距離處，俄方已對盧帕列韋持續炮擊四年之久。留心的讀者會注意到，FPV致命打擊的射程就是這個範圍，這也是我們在La RagioneYouTube頻道發布的最新視頻報道以開放式結尾收場、不便展示全部內容的原因之一。
拍攝時，一架FPV無人機鎖定了我們。我們僥幸在為時未晚前聽見了它的聲音，盡管周圍除了一個早已被戰爭摧毀的小棚屋外別無他處可避，我們設法躲進其中。
（視頻：Alla和我在烏克蘭盧帕列韋拍攝的影像??版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
就在昨天，在我們所在的州內，俄羅斯無人機操作員對當地平民造成約二十人死傷。在頓涅茨克、蘇梅、哈爾科夫、第聶伯羅、第聶伯羅彼得羅夫斯克、紮波羅熱、切爾尼戈夫和基輔等最易遭FPV襲擊的州，局勢同樣嚴峻，且持續惡化。
（圖：我在我們躲避的烏克蘭掩體附近版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
幾天前，我們就在那些地區解釋過，包括俄軍在內，96%的傷亡係烏克蘭無人機打擊所致。無人機正變得日益精準、致命且深入，很不幸的是，俄方的打擊同樣具有此特征。但有一個巨大區別：俄方無人機操作員蓄意以平民為目標：媒體記者、救援人員、撤離人員與誌願者成為首要攻擊對象，正如在我們這次的情況，他們一旦發現我們，就鎖定持續追擊。
（圖：通往烏克蘭盧帕列韋這種小村落的道路，如今成了殺傷區??版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
以致於所有近期的聯合國/人權事務高級專員辦公室數據與獨立報告均證實，自2022年以來，絕大多數平民傷亡發生在基輔控製區（2025年約占97%），主要由俄方遠程武器如無人機與其他導彈造成。
自俄全麵入侵烏克蘭以來，已有超過逾15,000名烏克蘭平民死亡，2025年達峰值。
自今年以來，俄聯邦已在最激烈的殺傷區投放約70萬架自殺式無人機，上周單周峰值達67,000架。
3月，俄方攻擊強度較2月增長40%，共向烏克蘭發射255,900枚彈藥，導致至少66名平民死亡。聯合國數據顯示，過去一個月內，短程無人機已成為針對烏克蘭平民的最致命武器。
正如我們此前在報道俄方在所謂複活節停火以及近期5月9日停火期間的違規行為僅基輔就造成24人死亡，包括3名兒童，另有48人受傷中所分析的，俄占領者使用FPV無人機襲擊卡車、加油站、貨運與客運列車車隊、公交、出租車及其他民用車輛，旨在從各個層麵破壞烏克蘭後勤體係。
（圖：Alla與我在烏克蘭盧帕列韋墓地錄製影像??版權所有，@giorgioprov）
因此，烏克蘭正在沿關鍵線路強化反無人機設施。自年初以來，烏方技術人員以約每天1公裏的速度，已在上述八個地區的371公裏道路上成功安裝了網絡及其他多層被動防禦係統。
考慮到作業環境之艱苦，這些由烏克蘭國防部提供的數字已十分驚人。
困擾我們的，是當下這種威脅類型使得許多戰地報道無法實施，並使任何傳統報道手段變得過時。
而這並非唯一一次；當我們從盧帕列韋撤離，返回相對安全區域途中，另一架FPV無人機在一段開闊路段追擊我們，最終被烏克蘭防空係統擊落。
一旦進入終端製導，那些遠程操控的無人機延遲極低，規避動作幾乎不可能。
（音頻：自豪地與大家分享我在美國資深分析師Mark McNamee主持的正在書寫的曆史：烏克蘭戰爭最新一集中參與的環節）
當天還有50至55架遠程高爆無人機在光天化日下飛越赫爾鬆州，遭到烏克蘭防空火力攔截。然而此類襲擊發生得如此頻繁，以至於連私營公司也在考慮配備由訓練有素操作者遠程控製的機槍塔台。
若此前的目標是年產一百萬架無人機，這一數量很快可能僅在一個季度內就被消耗完。
證明了時代與戰爭方式已然改變。
（圖：我從一處處於殺傷區的烏克蘭戰壕報道版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
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