Hello, my name is Roman, I'm software engineer from Ukraine and I assemble combat FPV drones for 🇺🇦 defenders!

A few months ago, I decided to start this project, because it is one of the most effective ways to help my military friends who are fighting for a free 🇺🇦Ukraine!
🧵 FPV drones are a highly effective weapon, especially today when the Russians are on the offensive.

My drones help repel assault by Russian invaders and destroy their equipment.
Watch video:
1st estroyed enemy mortar and ammunition detonation.
2dn - prevent assault, 4 enemy - 300

I think everyone understands that russia will not stop at Ukraine and the EU countries will be next. That's true!
In turn, in 2014, everyone thought that Putin would be satisfied with Crimea and that it would be possible to hold talks with him on the sly.

A thread.
1/ Many believed that over time Putin's power would change and that democratic leaders would come after him.
Now we see that these were illusions!
2/

Did you know that Ukraine has 2 flags?
Blue and yellow🇺🇦, and red with black.
If the yellow-blue flag symbolizes statehood and Ukrainian unity, the red-black flag is the Ukrainian revolutionary flag.
Let me tell you🧵 The history of the red&black flag as a symbol of the struggle for the freedom of Ukraine has existed for a long time.
In Ilya Repin's painting "Cossacks writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan", two poles with folded panels can be seen.
One flag is 🇺🇦, and the second is red-black

Unbelievably, I reached 20,000 followers.

Thanks to your support and my efforts, we supplied many units and created many projects that helped 🇺🇦Ukraine win faster!

I want to tell you a short story about how I started my activity on Twitter to help my friend in the war.
🧵 I created this account at the beginning of the war, perhaps out of desperation and hoping to find help for my friend Mica and others who went to war.

I was looking for different ways to raise money to collect packages and send them to the front.

On Valentine's Day❤️, thousands of defenders today defend us on the front lines.
They are eagerly awaited and loved by their wives, children, and parents!
Thousands of messages with the words "I love you" were sent from the front lines and back to relatives and loved ones.
🧵 Today morning, our 🇺🇦defenders could warm the hearts of those they love. Instead, they send the orks back to the cave to hell with fury and zeal.

They could hear "love" live, but they heard the sounds of gunshots!

I would like to comment on a few phrases of Mrs. Gwynne Shotwell about Starlinks and their use with drones and offensive purposes in Ukraine.

Does Starlink work now in 🇺🇦Ukraine, particularly on the front line?
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reuters.com/business/aeros… First, I want to clear up all this noise about Starlink not working on the front lines.
I checked it. And as proof, Starlink, which is at the front, as you can see, WORKS, and 7 soldiers are attached to it.

Once I was asked the question: "Why didn't Ukraine produce something similar to Iran in the form of Shahid-136 even before the full-scale war. It seems that the technologies there are quite simple."
🧵 The problem is that it doesn't work that way. Innovation in the army is a difficult process due to the fact that army people are conservative by nature.

There is a standard of war that was tested in WWII, so that is how we will prepare to fight following that experience.

According to a realistic scenario, Russia will continue to be a source of problems for Ukraine regardless of how this war ends.
You don't need to be a great genius to understand the following moments that are decisive for the construction of the Armed Forces of 🇺🇦Ukraine.
🧵 Financial and economic restrictions in the future will make it impossible to maintain a much larger professional army on a permanent basis!
At the same time, as the hostilities have shown, Ukraine must be able to quickly field a group of up to 1 million personnel.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine🇺🇦 currently have more than 120 volunteer battalions that actively participate in the war against Russia and protect our territorial borders!

Let me tell you about them🧵🧵🧵 The volunteer battalion consists mostly of combat-experience volunteers who are not eligible to serve in the Ukrainian🇺🇦 army due to health, age, or other reasons.
Also, people who do not want to waste time on bureaucratic processes, but want to go to war now, often join.

Why is the current energy situation in Ukraine 🇺🇦 critical in connection with missile strikes from Russia?

Why do we have planned power outages for hours every day?

Soon we may almost be without electricity!

Why 👉🧵🧵🧵 In the past, I worked in the main energy supply company in Ukraine.
The key factor is energy balancing! Balancing between incoming power from stations and outcome power of consumers.
I will try to explain to you with an example.

The Russian invaders in the Kherson region are looking for sabotage groups of the Ukrainian military: they kidnap people and beat out testimony

In Kakhovka, the Russians detain people, take them to Gornostaevka, and force them to testify under torture.
🧵 Similar actions are being taken in the settlements of Borovskoye and Shchedrishchevo in the Luhansk region: mass searches are being carried out, mobile phones are confiscated, and people are kidnapped, who are taken out in an unknown direction.

For decades, Russia has been destroying and poisoning Ukrainian culture, oppressing people, and killing us. We have never been friendly nations! I want to tell you the facts about Russia, and these people, from my life experience!
🧵🧵🧵 As a child, I was 7-9 years old, I was once in Russia, Moskov, and I went to my uncle's wedding.
I remember when I went to the store to buy Chupa Chups and started speaking Ukrainian and the seller immediately called me "Khohol"

I’ve just heard good news from Admiral Makarov⛴ in Sevastopol on the seabed. It's true

https://twitter.com/UkraineRussia2/status/1586275263775662124

How many aid packages America and Europe have announced, we will owe them for the rest of our lives. But it is better than living in war and occupation of Russia! But I think that when we win, Russia will pay all the debts.

I want to give some insights and thoughts into the fight against the Shahed-136 kamikaze drone.
Let's consider several options for combating it:
The easiest way, it would seem, is radio-electronic interference, but there is a problem:
🧵🧵🧵 For effective jamming of a CRPA-type receiver, several different types of interference are required parties. That is several radio interference stations that target the aircraft from different directions parties. All electronics in Shahed-136 are housed in metal housings.

Russia has purchased many Shahed-136 kamikaze drones (kamikaze UAVs) in Iran. They are actively used to bomb critical infrastructure and kill civilians in general!
The most important characteristics of these drones in🧵🧵🧵 1. Huge range - at least 800 km.
2. A very noisy gasoline engine without a muffler, reminiscent of a moped or chainsaw.
3. The size of the plane is approximately 3x3 m.
4. The speed can vary from approximately 100 to 180 km/h.

Today we visited a few places where refugees live with a total of ~170 kids.
Many toys, cars, dolls, and constructors were given away to those injured by war hands kids from Kherson, Donbas ...

Thank you very much to our team @dim0kq @ippvch incredible dog Dzyga!

More history🧵 Today's first institution is a dormitory where about 150 children live with their parents. Their houses are completely bombed, and they have nowhere to return.

This time we didn't make a children's room, we just gave it to everyone.
It was a long and happy process.

It's incredible! Mica asked all his sworn brothers, and they sent him a few photos as the photo report on our parcel. Flag with our wishes, etc.

They say thank you to all for your support!

More photos here🧵🧵🧵 This is the same flag, inverted 🙃, on which I wrote our wishes from the thread.
They also took a photo with an inverted flag🇺🇦

As I promised, I would like to tell you a short story about my military friend Mica.
He is an example of steadfastness Ukrainian🇺🇦 spirit. He is a true patriot of our country and just a great man, who lives, loves, and fights!

To read the story about him in the thread 🧵🧵🧵 Mica is an ordinary guy from a small town who just loves motorcycles and dreams of becoming a soldier, a professional soldier.
And he succeeded!

A real story from the front line, the first days of the war invasion by Russia in Ukraine, from a soldier who survived his death, in his words:
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I used to serve in the army but was not in the war. In the first days of the war, I was the first to go into battle.
I was immediately sent to the barracks, but for a few more days I waited to be sent to the line of battle, as there was not enough equipment, body armor, helmet