2025-06-20T06: 47: 41z
- Ukraine Magiar birds released a video this week about a drone taking a prisoner alone.
- The clips showed the man raising his hands in surrender and leading to Ukrainian lines.
- It is a rare example as it was almost a cheap drone for a fighter.
On Thursday, the Ukrainian military issued footage of a rare case, as a drone seized the first person to see a man identified as a Russian soldier and brought him alone to the Ukrainian lines.
Magear Birds, a famous drone unit, said the clips depicted.
The footage shows a man wearing military clothes that raise his hands in a surrender of a small drone like Kawadkopter. Business Insider independently was unable to verify that the man in the video is a Russian soldier.
Later, it is cut into the view of the MAVIC drone viewer of a man who stumbles in a forest while following the FPV kadkop through several rows of incoming wires. He eventually meets with another man, who can be seen while accompanying the prisoner.
The Ukrainian land forces wrote on their official Facebook page in a post Thursday: “The pilot did not eliminate the invaders, but he took him to our sites and handed him over to the neighborhood of the neighboring unit.”
Magyar birds on social media channels said on Wednesday that the exchange occurred in the Donbas region.
He added that the pilot in the clips, the crew commander with the “Payne” call mark, used the “F10” drone. F10 most likely refers to the FPV and lightweight FPV plane that was created in late 2023 by Robert Magiar, a businessman who established Magiar birds.
The unit said it was the first time that its pilots have seized a soldier with a FPV drone.
Similar cases have been reported before, but a few known cases included a soldier being captured by the viacopter and then accompanied until it reaches the enemy lines.
In September, for example, a FPV drone from the 54th mechanical brigade in Ukraine Registered Driving a note soldier and drinking water, which prompted the latter to surrender and follow the drone to a trench. Ukrainian soldiers arrived later and arrested the man.
In February, the twenty -fifth brigade separated by air Release From what he said was a FPV drone using a loudspeaker to persuade nine Russian soldiers to surrender.
