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Ukrainian aerial-drone campaign targets Russian shipping in Sea of Azov

Ukraine’s 414th “Magyar’s Birds” claims a sustained, high-tempo tactic of using aerial drones to hunt and strike large numbers of Russian vessels (notably shadow-fleet tankers) in the Sea of Azov, reportedly disrupting canal/strait traffic. The novelty is the apparent scale and persistence of drone maritime interdiction using aerial UAVs against moving commercial shipping rather than isolated one-off strikes, aiming to economically and logistically isolate Crimea.

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