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Ukraine: Enemy In The Woods
The scorched, bomb-blasted Kupyansk forest in east Ukraine resembles the shattered landscape of World War I. So do the trenches and dugouts, with steps dug into the frozen mud.
The shivering soldiers with packs and rifles could be brothers of the men fighting 110 years ago. But Ukraine: Enemy In The Woods (BBC2) showed graphically how one small gadget creates a world of difference: the drone.
A device first adopted by photographers and hobbyists has transformed modern warfare. Drones pose a constant threat to both sides in Ukraine, as airborne spies and flying bombs.
Much of film-maker Jamie Roberts's shocking, gripping documentary was shot from the air. One sequence was taken from the video feed of a drone patrolling a snow-covered path on the edge of the forest, close to a vital railway line.
The scorched, bomb-blasted Kupyansk forest in east Ukraine resembles the shattered landscape of World War I . So do the trenches and dugouts, with steps dug into the frozen mud (pictured: Ukrainian soldiers facing the enemy in the BBC's Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods)
The shivering soldiers with packs and rifles could be brothers of the men fighting 110 years ago. But Ukraine: Enemy In The Woods (BBC2) (pictured) showed graphically how one small gadget creates a world of difference: the drone
Two Russian soldiers emerged from the woods. The drone hovered and dropped its payload of high-explosive shrapnel bombs. Both men were blown to the ground. One stayed motionless, the other limped away. The drone pilot compared it to a morning's fishing, and confessed he found killing Russians addictive. They were less than human to him, he said — more like orcs, the foul-smelling foot soldiers from the books of J.R.R. Tolkien.
