The report notes the footage shows a Czech-made Moravan Z-137—a turboprop crop duster—outfitted with missile pylons carrying Soviet-era R-73 air-to-air missiles. This upgrade, the journalists suggest,

Russia has launched a new bid to exert control over the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson by threatening key access roads with its drones and trying to split it in two by striking a vital bridge.

Ukraine's Air Force said Moscow's forces launched an Iskander-M ballistic missile from Russia's Bryansk Oblast and 46 Shahed-type drones and decoy drones from Kursk, Bryansk, Orel, and Primorsk-Akhtarsk.