A 12-year-old boy in Chernihiv Oblast has disabled an FPV drone heading towards his younger siblings after learning how to do so from soldiers he knew.

The incident took place on 18 April. The boy was outside when he spotted a Russian fibre-optic drone in the sky – a UAV controlled via a thin cable that unwinds from a spool during flight. The drone was heading towards the area where his younger siblings were playing.

Anatolii recounts: "I saw that it started to turn. I crouched down, then looked – it was going up. I said: 'That's it, 15 seconds and I'll cut [the fibre optic]!' My nephew ran out and shouted: 'Cut it!' I pulled it and saw the drone start accelerating upwards because it had lost control and was beginning to fall. We were already bracing for an explosion. But it fell into bushes about 100-150 m away from us."