Russian forces are advancing in the east, slowly but surely, and they are shrinking Ukraine’s partial hold of the border region of Kursk

The Russian troops have also been using electric scooters, motorcycles and ATVs, which allow them to disperse quickly across the front, a Ukrainian official told The Times. The stepped-up attacks have heightened longstanding concerns over how Ukraine manages its military and have countered assumptions that Moscow’s offensive would slow.

On January 2, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out a precision strike on the command post of the Russian army in the settlement of Mariino, located in the Kursk region, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Ukrainians use drones for various tasks, including pairing micro-drones with armoured vehicle crews. While this concept remains futuristic in the West, Ukrainians are already testing it in combat conditions.

One of the drones flew back to Russia and another to Belarus. The drones were launched from Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, Bryansk and Orel oblasts, as well as from occupied Crimea. Earlier, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported thatat least four people had been injured in a Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian capital on the first day of the New Year.