{"id":1362666,"date":"2026-02-26T09:37:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/kharkiv-under-new-threat-fiber-optic-drone-reaches-city-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:37:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:37:52","slug":"kharkiv-under-new-threat-fiber-optic-drone-reaches-city-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/kharkiv-under-new-threat-fiber-optic-drone-reaches-city-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Kharkiv under new threat: fiber-optic drone reaches city for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first time an FPV drone was used on fiber optics was recorded in Kharkiv. It happened in the Kyivskyi district of the city, when the drone hit a tree.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was announced by<\/a> Serhiy Flesh Beskrestnov, advisor to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, a specialist in electronic warfare and communications systems.<\/p>\n

“These are real threats that we will have to deal with technologically. Detection based on PER will not work here, radar will help, but in the case of low-flying FPV, they are not a panacea. Acoustics? Maybe,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

The fact of the use of a drone was confirmed by the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office.<\/p>\n

“According to the investigation, on February 25, at around 3:00 p.m., servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces, violating the laws and customs of war, used a 13-inch FPV drone on fiber optics over the territory of the Kyiv district of Kharkiv. The drone hit a tree,” the post says. <\/p>\n

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The prosecutor’s office emphasized that this case is the first recorded use of an FPV drone on fiber optics in Kharkiv since the beginning of the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

A pre-trial investigation has been initiated into the use of the drone under Part 1 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine on violation of the laws and customs of war.<\/p>\n

Recall that the Russian army began using Shahed kamikaze drones as carriers for FPV drones.<\/a><\/p>\n

As reported, Russia is modernizing its drone tactics in the war against Ukraine. The Gerber UAV was first used as a carrier of an FPV drone.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The first time an FPV drone was used on fiber optics was recorded in Kharkiv. It happened in the Kyivskyi district of the city, when the drone hit a tree. This was announced by Serhiy Flesh Beskrestnov, advisor to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, a specialist in electronic warfare and communications systems. “These are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1362656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1362666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1362656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}