It uses them as "targets": Russia trains drone operators on Ukrainian civilians – FT

The Russian occupation army is using Ukrainian civilians as "targets " to train UAV operators. This terrorist practice of the Russians leads to a large number of civilian casualties and injuries.

At the same time, the invaders are targeting cars, bicycles, and even pedestrians. This is stated in the Financial Times article.

Residents of Kherson suffer the most from enemy drone attacks. Since mid-summer, the population of the regional center has reportedly been the target of an experiment that has no precedent in modern European warfare. Russia is trying to devastate the city by harassing its residents with attack drones. At the same time, Putin's troops are honing the skills of UAV operators by using civilians as targets.

In just six months, Kherson and neighboring villages along the right bank of the Dnipro River have been subjected to more than 9,500 attacks using small drones, killing at least 37 people and injuring hundreds.

The Eyes on Russia project of the Center for Information Resilience (CIR), a London-based nonprofit organization dedicated to exposing human rights abuses and war crimes, has analyzed and confirmed 90 such attacks on Ukrainian civilians.

The analysts found that the vast majority of attacks were directed at moving or stationary vehicles, targets that are "difficult to replicate in a test environment." Russian drones mostly target vulnerable everyday places: crowded markets, gas stations, cafes, post offices, and humanitarian aid centers.

As a reminder, on December 1, the Russian occupiers attacked public transportation in Kherson from a drone. In the afternoon, they dropped explosives on a bus in the regional center.

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