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Ukrainian soldiers trick the Russians into attacking the wrong positions by building fake bunkers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
They put effort into making it look real, even putting trash nearby, a drone operator told BI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Drone operators are targets for the Russians, so they operate underground on scarred battlefields.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Soldiers in Ukraine make fake bunkers with tree branches and more to trick Russian drone operators<\/a> hunting for them. This is especially important for Ukraine’s drone operators, which are often high-priority targets.<\/p>\n It has become standard operating procedure for soldiers to “make a few fake positions,” Dimko Zhluktenko, a drone operator with Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, told Business Insider.<\/p>\n He said that soldiers build the fake positions in the tree line, designing them so that it all “looks real.”<\/p>\n “You would leave some marks of human life in there, some trash or anything,” Zhluktenko explained, adding that it makes Russian reconnaissance drone ops more likely to focus on the fake position.<\/p>\n