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Basurin report, 12 Jan. 2018, describes armed drones use by Ukraine, + apparently alleges that Ukrainian forces trained for a provocation of shooting down US "Global Hawk" with Buks and relocated when the training was revealed (FWIW).

Rus. ;Eng., copied below.

''Following the example of the world's most famous terrorist organizations, Ukraine decided to use an armed unmanned aerial vehicle. But when the drone was approaching to the village of SOSNOVSKOE, defenders of the Republic managed to bring it down. Some parts of the fallen drone are shown on the slide, the combat head unit was destroyed in situ by detonation. This time the drone, apparently, was sent to strike at the transformer substation providing power supply to the whole village.

''At the same time, we got to know that the unmanned aerial vehicle shot down by the Ukrainian military on December 10 in the Gorlovka area and allegedly belonging to the DPR Armed Forces actually turned out to be a Skywalker costing 400,000 rubles (200,000 hryvnia) and purchased by volunteers for AFU. And in order to hide the destruction of their property, the AFU did not invent anything better than attaching the photo of the Russian-made Orlan-10 UAV to the news, without bothering to specify that they are not in service of the DPR Armed Forces.

''We forecast the continuation of the terror on the part of the AFU in the Gorlovka and Mariupol directions, which aims at forcing the Republic to open fire, falsely accusing us of firing at the positions of the Ukrainian military, as well as destroying the infrastructure and life support of the settlements of the DPR.

''But our intelligence works by far better than the Ukrainian one that allows us to prepare in advance for provocations, or to disclose cases of war crimes committed by the Ukrainian side.

''Thus, after our coverage of the air defense forces' training for the destruction of the American UAV "Global Hawk", these Buk anti-aircraft missile systems quickly left their positions and moved to the point of temporary deployment. A part of the information on the location and movement of this weapon we received from local residents living on territories temporarily controlled by Ukraine. I would like to thank the non-indifferent people for this and remind that the information you provide about the movements of the AFU helps to bring the conflict to an end by an unbloody way.