Russian soldiers couldn’t launch drones in Ukrainian counter-offensive due to a software installation.
A trove of thousands of military documents left behind by the defeated Russian forces in Kharkiv, who retreated in mid-September, and obtained by Reuters illuminated their brief regime of torture and later, failing aerial capabilities.
The troops asked their superiors in Russia for more drones as Ukrainian forces increasingly and effectively relied on American HIMARS missile launchers the summer before their northern counter-offensive,"Quadcopters!!! Urgent!" one soldier wrote to his superior on July 19, according to Reuters. Quadcopter drones are not military-grade, which provided a sign of the troops' desperation prior to the Ukrainian counter-offensive.
Other notes sourced by Reuters showed the soldiers pleading for munitions, with one soldier complaining that"the machine gun still won't work if it has no bullets inside." Ukraine's successful counter-offensive in north-eastern Kharkiv kicked off in the late summer and intensified in early September. By mid-September cities like Balakliia and Izium had been liberated and Russian leadershipRussia had captured areas in the Kharkiv region starting from the first days of the war in late February, through the spring until Ukraine started to push back.at least 257 men, 225 women, and 19 children were killed by Russia during their occupation of the region.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that within days of the September counteroffensive, Ukraine regained over 1,158 square miles of territory from Russian forces.
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