Disturbing developments in Russia’s drone war:

A Russian engineer, secretly working for Ukraine, just handed Kyiv a terrifying revelation: A handwritten note, discovered inside the wreckage of a downed drone, exposed a big development… Russian drones are now piloted via Telegram bots, using Ukraine’s own cellular networks and onboard AI.

GPS? Not needed.

Ukrainian jamming? Doesn’t work.

This means Russia’s Shaheds are now dodging Ukraine’s best electronic warfare systems and arriving at their targets smarter, faster, and harder to stop.

A Telegram bot’s API can be used to control a drone by sending commands to a Raspberry Pi, which then communicates with the drone's flight controller. This allows for remote drone control via a Telegram bot. In essence, the Telegram bot acts as an interface for sending commands to the drone, with the Raspberry Pi acting as a bridge between the bot and the drone's flight controller. The Ukrainian cell network is the comms medium.

The discovery was made in a covert Kyiv lab where engineers dissect every crashed Russian drone like a frog in high school biology. One of those engineers summed it up bluntly: “These new models aren’t fazed by our EW. They fly low, go dark, and still stay in touch—through Telegram, no less.”

This revelation lands right as Russia launched what may be its largest aerial attack of the war: 298 drones and 69 missiles in a single night on May 25. Ukrainian officials are calling this a “new phase.”

The Kremlin is producing Shaheds at breakneck speed—reportedly 300 every three days, with plans to scale to 500 per day. Yes, per day.

Despite the odds, Ukraine’s air defense crews continue to hold the line.

But Ukrainian analysts are increasingly calling for a shift: stop defending and start striking. Hit the factories, hit the launchers, hit the supply lines. Hit Moscow.

Because if Russia can continue to mass produce Shaheds and fly them through your phone plan, air defense might not be enough.

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