🔥 Destruction

Ukrainian HUR "Kryla" special unit destroyed a Russian Osa ('Wasp') anti-aircraft missile system using an FPV drone. The air defense system was valued at $10 million while the FPV drone cost only several hundred dollars.

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Kyiv Post → Source tone: likely

Ukrainian HUR "Kryla" special unit destroyed a Russian Osa ('Wasp') anti-aircraft missile system using an FPV drone

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) unit Kryla ("Wings") destroyed a Russian air defense system Osa with a first-person view (FPV) drone

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: likely

A drone worth "several hundred dollars" was used to destroy an automated air defense system worth $10 million

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: likely

Russia has lost 970 air defense systems since the outbreak of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine

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Extracted: 2026-02-18T13:39:24.333Z

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