MOSCOW, August 13. /TASS/. Snipers from Russia’s Battlegroup Center’s 27th Division, stationed at the border between the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Dnepropetrovsk Region, are destroying Ukraine’s Baba-Yaga heavy hexacopters with special rounds that penetrate the armor protecting the battery packs, a sniper with the call sign Arbi said in a news story shown on the Zvezda TV channel.

"You have to aim and hit the ‘brain,’ but it’s protected by armor plates--specifically, the batteries. Special rounds for the SVD (Dragunov sniper rifle) are designed to penetrate that armor," he said.

Snipers work in close coordination with drone operators, which allows them to act proactively and know in advance where the Baba-Yaga is coming from. They assist the infantry advancing toward Grishino, Novopodgorodnoye, and Udachnoye. In forested areas with many open spaces, snipers are also destroying Ukrainian firing positions.