00:00On the ecological front, the 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade of Ukraine released aerial
00:05footage recorded by drones revealing extensive environmental contamination in the forests
00:09of the Bobchans district in the north of Kharkiv Oblast.
00:13The video shows the trees tightly covered by thousands of kilometers of thin fiber optic
00:17cables, almost invisible, left behind by Russian attack drones operating in the area.
00:23These cables, which form taut webs stretching across the landscape, are a byproduct of fiber
00:29optically guided attack drones that transmit their control and video signals through fiber
00:34instead of radio making them highly resistant to interference.
00:39The reels can reach between 20 and 50 kilometers in length and the cables from previous raids
00:43quickly accumulate in the gray zone, since they are not biodegradable, creating deadly
00:47traps for animals.
00:50While both Russian and Ukrainian forces use fiber optically guided drones, the 57th Brigade
00:55attributes the dense accumulation of visible fiber optic cables in the forests to Russian operations.
01:02These cables have even started to be used by some bird species as material to build their nest.
01:07at the edge of the
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