Last summer, a group of Ukrainian volunteers, working closely with their country’s intelligence service, apparently came close to persuading three Russian aviators who were in the midst of bombing Ukraine to defect with their warplanes in exchange for $1 million a piece.
Last week, Ukrainian military personnel announced that a drone strike had been employed to demolish an unmanned lookout tower in Russia's Bryansk region, a rarity of an openly admitted cross-border attack that denotes Kyiv's readiness to target Russian soil directly.
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