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Baba-Yaha: The Drone That Haunts the Russian Front
As night falls over the abandoned villages of eastern Ukraine, a Ukrainian drone team readies their “Vampire,” a modified hexacopter capable of long-range strikes and resupply missions. Russian troops have given it a name drawn from Slavic folklore — Baba-Yaha, the dread crone. In the open steppe, where light disappears and artillery is constant, this legend has returned in the shape of a machine.