Longer, louder, deadlier – Putin’s drone swarms terrorize Kyiv

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1. Everyone here expected Russian revenge for Ukraine’s recent kneecap of Putin’s bomber fleet.

   But once it started – just after midnight on June 10th – it seemed like a nightmare that just wouldn’t end.

   One after another Unamanned Aerial Vehicle came buzzing over the dark horizon and picked up speed as it descended before going into a frenzied ear-splitting kamikadze dive.

   Several times during the four-hour non-stop attack, I found myself pinned to the wall of my flat bracing for what seemed like imminent impact.

   Then, the drone, invisible to us building dwellers below, would either veer off, be shot down by air defense forces or crash into a target and burn.

   In the dead of night, with the windows all open due to the warm weather, the whir, the whine and the explosion of these mechanical birds of prey is all too vivid, particularly if one has just been roused from a deep sleep.

   Visually, the attack resembles an almost beautiful light show – criss crossing search beams, tracer rounds rising rhymically into the night sky and what looked like strobe light just floating in mid air.

   But the distant explosions get closer, the aproaching sound of the engines more ominous and the very real threat of one slamming into your building more real.

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