Russia repurposes hoverboards into makeshift kamikaze drones
Russia is reportedly creating drones from toy hoverboards, as stated by Nexta on Saturday. A short video has surfaced online showing constructions developed by Moscow using electric hoverboards. These devices are allegedly designed to demolish Ukrainian fortifications.
"It suddenly makes sense why Russian troops in Ukraine were observed with a substantial number of toy hoverboards," writes Nexta on Saturday.
War in Ukraine: Such constructions are being created by Russians
A short film circulating online shows a pair of two-wheeled hoverboards attached to an anti-tank mine rolling on the ground. This device is allegedly intended to demolish Ukrainian fortifications.
This is not the first report on the subject. Previous reports have emerged since last year about Russia's actions involving the transformation of children's toys into kamikaze drones for military purposes. The aim of these machines is to reach Ukrainian positions and detonate a combat charge.
Ukraine boasts of success: actions of a naval drone detailed
Meanwhile, Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) reported on Saturday that the Ukrainian naval drone Magura destroyed a Russian Su-30 fighter jet near the city of Novorossiysk in the Krasnodar Krai, located in southern Russia.
"For the first time in the world, GUR soldiers destroyed an enemy combat aircraft with a strike from a Magura sea drone," stated the HUR communiqué on Telegram. It added: "On May 2, 2025, a special unit of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine of the Ministry of Defence, in cooperation with the Security Service of Ukraine and the Defense Forces of Ukraine, liquidated the Russian Su-30 in the Black Sea - this is the first destruction of a combat aircraft by a naval drone in the world."
