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| Cartel Members Fought In Ukraine To Learn FPV Drone Skills |
| 2025-08-01 |
| [TWZ] Obtaining hands-on experience in how to employ FPV drones as weapons in Ukraine could radically speed up the learning curve for Mexican cartels. First-person view (FPV) attack drones have been so successful in Ukraine that now Mexican drug cartels are reportedly seeking first-hand lessons on best practices. Intelligence agencies in Kyiv and Mexico City are investigating whether cartel members – fighting on behalf of Ukraine – are doing so to learn more about how to operate FPVs against rivals, according to Intelligence Online, a French investigative news outlet. Learning how to operate and maintain FPV drones from the world’s leading practitioners could drastically speed up the learning curve for cartels, which are in the early stages of using these weapons. The investigation centers on cartel members who allegedly joined Ukraine’s International Legion, created at the beginning of the all-out war to allow foreigners to fight against Russia. Mexico’s National Intelligence Center (CNI) recently sent a memo to Ukraine’s SBU counter-intelligence service warning that some Mexican volunteers joining the International Legion were doing so to bring home working knowledge of how best to operate FPVs, the publication claimed. As a result, SBU and the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR) “launched an investigation … of several Spanish-speakers who had joined units attached to the second squadron of the GUR’s International Legion, including the Tactical Group Ethos, a semi-clandestine unit operating in the Donbas and Kharkiv oblasts.” Intelligence Online also claimed that investigators are looking into whether members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have joined the International Legion for similar purposes. We reached out to SBU, GUR, and CNI for comment and will update this story with any pertinent information provided. |
| Posted by:NoMoreBS |
| #1 Probably sponsored by State Department, USAID, or CIA. VOA 2024: Russia’s spy agency baselessly claims DEA and FBI enlist Mexican, Colombian drug cartels to fight for Ukraine. Linky |
| Posted by: mossomo 2025-08-01 12:38 |