Russia's unconventional warfare: Toy hoverboards turned drones
Russia is creating drones from toy hoverboards, reports Nexta on Saturday. A short video has appeared online showing constructs made by Moscow using electric hoverboards, which are allegedly intended to blow up Ukrainian fortifications.
"It suddenly makes sense why Russian troops in Ukraine were observed with a substantial number of toy hoverboards," writes Nexta on Saturday.
War in Ukraine: these are the constructions Russians are supposed to be making
A short video circulating online shows a pair of two-wheeled hoverboards attached to an anti-tank mine moving over the ground, allegedly to detonate Ukrainian fortifications.
These are not the first reports on the topic. Reports about Russia's actions involving the conversion of children's toys into kamikaze drones for military purposes appeared earlier last year. The role of such machines is to reach Ukrainian positions and detonate the explosive charge.
Ukraine boasts success: drone action highlighted
Meanwhile, as reported by Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) on Saturday, the Ukrainian naval drone Magura destroyed a Russian Su-30 fighter jet near the city of Novorossiysk in Krasnodar Krai, southern Russia.
"For the first time in the world, HUR soldiers destroyed an enemy combat aircraft with a strike from a Magura sea drone," wrote HUR in a Telegram communiqué, adding: "On May 2, 2025, a special unit of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine of the Ministry of Defence, in cooperation with the Security Service of Ukraine and the Defense Forces of Ukraine, liquidated the Russian Su-30 in the Black Sea - this is the first destruction of a combat aircraft by a naval drone in the world."
