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Istanbul The video is 15 seconds long, black and white and blurred. Three people can be seen carrying the boxes onto a boat. They are joined by two more people. The image shook briefly, then a black cloud enveloped the scene, and fragments flew into the air.

As the smoke fades, it is clear that the boat was hit by a missile fired by the missile that recorded the video. The five people – the Russian soldiers – are no longer moving.

Until the shell exploded, the soldiers did not see or hear the enemy. The drone, equipped with a camera and a missile, silently hovered at a high altitude over the Russian boat that the country’s soldiers had previously used to seize Ukraine’s Snake Island. A few weeks later, the Kremlin announced that it would abandon the strategically important island in the Black Sea. The losses were too great.