Bird nests of fibre-optic cables show war's impact on Ukraine
Both Ukrainian and Russian troops use drones controlled via optic fibre to bypass electronic warfare jamming, leaving miles of ultra-thin optical lines left tangled in trees and scattered across the land in Ukraine's frontline regions. Trying to counter Russia's advantage in such conventional equipment, Ukraine has poured resources into developing aerial drones. Drones now dominate the battlefield.Hrynko said researchers did not know which birds made the nests nor how they had gathered the long cables."The first nest mainly contains dry grass and fibre-optic cable.
- ▪Both Ukrainian and Russian troops use drones controlled via optic fibre to bypass electronic warfare jamming, leaving miles of ultra-thin optical lines left tangled in trees and scattered across the land in Ukraine's frontline regions.
- ▪Trying to counter Russia's advantage in such conventional equipment, Ukraine has poured resources into developing aerial drones.
- ▪Drones now dominate the battlefield.Hrynko said researchers did not know which birds made the nests nor how they had gathered the long cables."The first nest mainly contains dry grass and fibre-optic cable.
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Bird nests of fibre-optic cables show war's impact on UkraineSign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inboxYana Hrynko, senior researcher of The National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, shows a bird's nest made with fragments of optic fibre which was found by a Ukrainian serviceman on the front line and then passed to the museum, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 23, 2026. Both Ukrainian and Russian troops use drones controlled via optic fibre to bypass electronic warfare jamming, leaving miles of ultra-thin optical lines left tangled in trees and scattered across the land in Ukraine's frontline regions.
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