Inside Ukraine's efforts to bring an 'army of drones' to war against Russia
A new "army of drones" is taking the war to the heart of Russia as Ukrainian forces launch drone strikes on Moscow and Russian territorial waters. Ukraine is training thousands of drone pilots and ramping up its production of unmanned aircraft to bring an "army of drone s" to the front lines of its counteroffensive against Russia, Ukrainian Military officials and manufacturers told ABC News in rare interviews on the secretive program. From November through May, Ukraine has trained 10,000 drone pilots, and another 10,000 pilots are being trained right now, according to Ukraine's minister of digital transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov. "I want to use all means available to destroy the enemy and achieve victory. The Ukrainian Armed Forces get a lot of support from our Western partners, but we also have to develop our own technologies and use them on a scale never seen before in any conflicts," a drone pilot said. The name of the pilot and location of the ...