Russia resorts to using makeshift tank covers and cages to protect its dwindling forces from Ukrainian drone attacks, in a new humiliation for Putin.

Vladimir Putin’s dwindling forces have been forced to use makeshift covers and cages to protect important military equipment as Ukrainian drone strikes hit them.

A video leaked to Telegram channels shows Russian tanks beneath blocky, turtle-like metal shells that appear to have been retroactively installed outside.

The improvised projectile only covers the sides and top of the tank, apparently allowing operators to fire projectiles from military vehicles.

Another video, this time apparently filmed from a drone, shows three Russian tanks with their covers lumbering across a battlefield in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Krasnohorivka while coming under fire.

Although the covers do not appear to affect their movement, their effectiveness is unknown as they appear to remove much of the tanks’ visibility.

At least two armored vehicles were destroyed during the failed assault.

Russian tanks have been greatly affected by Ukrainian drones. A NATO official said today Foreign policy that more than two-thirds of the disabled Russian tanks were destroyed by drones.

Many are manufactured cheaply and use off-the-shelf components that often carry improvised munitions, including grenades or homemade bombs, while a much-needed military aid package worth $60 billion, or £47 billion, is still is being held up in the US House of Representatives after months of wrangling.

But the war, and the need to innovate in light of resource shortages, has apparently led Ukraine to create an AI-powered drone that could locate Russian targets from further away and be more resistant to electronic countermeasures in an effort to increase its military capacity. capabilities while the war continues.

Deputy Defense Minister Kateryna Chernohorenko said kyiv is developing a new system that could autonomously discern, hunt and attack its targets from afar.

This would make drones more difficult to shoot down or jam, he said, and reduce the threat of retaliatory attacks for drone pilots.

‘Our drones should be more effective and guided to the target without any operator.

‘It should be based on visual navigation. “We also call it a ‘last mile target’, aiming based on the image,” he told The Telegraph.

It comes less than two months after Britain’s Defense Secretary announced the creation of a drone coalition in which the UK, Latvia and other Western-aligned governments will invest £200 million to provide unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). ) military grade to Ukraine.

The package, which makes up around a fifth of Ukraine’s total investment in developing drones for frontline use, will allow the UK to order thousands of FPV drones for Ukraine, many of which will be produced by British manufacturers.