mobile fire groups

Ukrainian gunner downs four Russian drones in one night

A machine gunner from the Bohdan Khmelnytsky Radio Engineering Brigade’s mobile fire group successfully targeted and destroyed four Russian Shahed attack drones in a single night in Mykolaiv Oblast, the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff reported on Telegram on May 26.

26 May, 11:17 AM

Police release video of Russian drone being shot down over Kyiv

Police released a video of their mobile fire team taking down a Russian drone that attacked Kyiv on May 24.

24 May, 08:48 PM

New drone tactics from Russia challenge Ukraine’s defenses

Russian invaders are deploying Geran-3 kamikaze drones — akin to Iran’s Shahed-238 — to strike Ukraine and weaken mobile fire groups, the Institute for the Study of War reported on April 22.

23 April, 10:48 AM

Hundreds of mobile fire groups protect Ukraine’s critical infrastructure — National Guard

More than 900 mobile groups are actively protecting critical infrastructure from Russian attacks, National Guard Commander Oleksandr Pivnenko said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine on Dec. 27.

27 December 2024, 02:18 PM

U.S. funds hundreds of anti-drone groups in Ukraine, says Ambassador Brink

The U.S. State Department has provided funding for 800 mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2024, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink wrote on X on Nov. 3.

4 November 2024, 09:56 AM

Ukraine downs 29 Shahed drones in Russian combined missile and drone attack – Air Force

The Russian army attacked Ukraine with three Kh-59 guided air missiles and 29 Shahed-131/136 type UAVs overnight, Ukraine managed to take out all the Shahed drones, the Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk reported on Aug. 15.

15 August 2024, 10:58 AM

Female fire groups defend skies over Bucha, Kyiv Oblast — photo

The first all-female mobile fire brigades in Ukraine were created in the Bucha community, Kyiv Oblast – exactly where the Russian forces committed especially violent atrocities in the war beginning in 2022.

15 August 2024, 08:59 AM

Ukrainian forces shoot down four out of five Russian drones in overnight attack

Four out of five Shahed-131/136 one-way attack drones launched by Russia from the Primorsko-Akhtarsky District of Krasnodar Krai were shot down by mobile air defense fire groups over Donetsk and Kharkiv oblasts, Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk reported on Telegram on July 13.

13 July 2024, 10:59 AM

Ukraine downs all ten Russia-launched Shahed drones over two oblasts in overnight attack - Air Force

Air defense forces destroyed all ten Shahed 131/136-type kamikaze drones, launched against Ukraine overnight on June 18, Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk reported on Telegram on June 18.

18 June 2024, 12:31 PM

Russian army forms mobile fire groups following failure of its air defense to deter Ukrainian drone attacks

The Russian military is initiating the formation of mobile fire groups in response to Ukrainian drone strike threats, though challenges in scaling up deployment are anticipated in the near future, the U.S.-based think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW) wrote on March 30.

31 March 2024, 02:21 PM

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