"Cosmos floated his quadcopter over the ruined warehouse, guiding it through a corner of the roof where shattered metal sheets had collapsed to form a hole. The drone pilot's unit, the Wild Division, suspected that the building was a logistics hub for Russian soldiers, roughly 15 km, or about 9 miles, from the line of contact in southern Ukraine. These hidden locations often held ordnance or fuel stockpiles, and Cosmos' fiber-optic drone was armed with explosives to destroy them."
"Yet inside, the drone rotated its camera to reveal what looked more like a farmer's garage: Four civilian cars, a pair of motorcycles, and two bridled horses. "We had not expected to see this. It was unusual," Cosmos told Business Insider, speaking on condition that he be identified only by his call sign. "We were expecting to find some armored vehicles," he added."
A quadcopter piloted by Cosmos inspected a ruined warehouse about 15 km from the front in southern Ukraine and found civilian cars, motorcycles, and bridled horses inside a suspected Russian logistics hub. The Wild Division had expected armored vehicles and had armed its fiber-optic drone with explosives to destroy ordnance or fuel stockpiles. The discovery underscored a pattern of Russian units using pack animals, bicycles, and civilian transport for assaults and logistics. Smaller profiles of horses and civilian cars can be harder for reconnaissance drones to detect. The repeated use of unconventional transport raises questions about equipment shortfalls and different calculations of losses by Russian command.
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