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A Ukrainian drone equipped with a shotgun shot down three Russian Mavic drones and fired at a Russian soldier near Synkivka and Petropavlivka in the Kupiansk sector.

January 13, 2025 Synkivka, Kharkiv region

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Kyiv Post UNIAN

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Ukrainian drones (military_unit) Russian Mavic drones (weapon_system) Russian soldiers (person) Kupiansk sector (location) Ukrainian drone (military_unit) Russian soldier (person) Kupiansk (location) Kupiansk hromada (location) FPV drone (weapon_system) Molniya drone (weapon_system) Ukrainian Armed Forces (organization) Defense Forces of Ukraine (organization) 92nd Separate Brigade (military_unit) Achilles Battalion of Unmanned Aerial Systems (military_unit) Yuriy Fedorenko (person) Ukrainian Defense Forces (military_unit) Russian occupation forces (military_unit)

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Kyiv Post → Source tone: likely

A Ukrainian drone equipped with a shotgun shot down three Russian Mavic drones and targeted a Russian soldier.

UNIAN → Source tone: certain

Russians constantly shell both the center of Kupiansk and central parts of settlements in the Kupiansk hromada, directly targeting the city of Kupiansk. There are no military objects there - they were not there before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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