UNDISCLOSED LOCATION IN SOUTHERN UKRAINE: In a field in southern Ukraine, soldiers scrawled sardonic messages on a sleek grey attack drone that would soon be hunting Russian ships on the Black Sea — part of a widening Ukrainian campaign to isolate Crimea and weaken Moscow’s war effort. Operating far behind the front line on Ukraine’s sweeping steppe, such units have hit more than 180 vessels and other sea-borne targets around the peninsula over the past three weeks, opening a new front in the war.

The drones are targeting military logistics up to 300 kilometers from the front, creating a new layer of pressure between short-range FPV attacks and long-range deep strikes on…

Over the past 48 hours, the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces have struck 13 Russian vessels in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, Magyar reported.