Cyber Security Association Newsletter - December 2023 Edition
Supporting Scruff and Mriya Report
This month we support Scruff's Fundraiser on the MriyaReport twitter X space
Scruff is in the Ukrainian Armed Forces and is a drone specialist and filmmaker.
Below by Scruff.
" As promised in latest interview to listeners of
, here is the video about our unit made by Military TV of Ukraine. Storks that we've met. Some facts to make it more interesting and understandable: - MilitaryTV wanted to make a film asap but didn't have free cameraman for filming on specified dates, so I proposed to do all the camera job myself, so they just sent their reporter Ksenia Honchuk without cameraman. - "Stork" is the name of very first Ukrainian drone (Leleka-100 in Ukrainian) that was officially adopted in UA Armed Forces up to 2022. Long time it was kinda "guilty pleasure" for all UAV pilots here. This is why reporter says "...everyone wants to fly a "Stork"...". And that's what this word-play "Stork needs some repair" means. We really joked a lot about "finally we've got a "Stork". - The fact about "...after two hours of filming they received an order..." is not a "drama-trick". We finished filming at about 18:00, and already at 20:00 we had a briefing with order to head out for the mission no later than by 21:30. Reporter was absolutely shocked looking at all of us running around and grabbing the stuff for further deployment. She was sitting with eyes wide open and didn't believe that it really happens. Also because the plan was to bring her back to Kyiv : ) - It's also true that for the most of guys it was the very first battle. Andrii, who I'm shouting at "Andrey, we got freaking Red Air!" on 7:43 is one of them. Now he commands a platoon, by the way. "Red Air" meant that there was a russian UAV Orlan in the sky trying to spot us. - Military TV started edition of the film when we were on the mission and I managed to shot some episodes of the fight when I had such an opportunity, this is why the voice behind the camera on the whole footage is mine. - Military TV didn't want to add "battle" part of the film (last 2 minutes), I started to convince them that this will make the film more "alive". Because of this and because the whole video was made in "music video" style, they still call this film "most non-Military TV film that appeared on Military TV ever" : ) - After watching finished version of the film the head of MilTV recorded and sent us a video with invitation to work on Military TV : ) - English subtitled version became available because after the release of the film, many agencies like DailyNews, SkyNews etc asked for it. One of the first who reposted the video was the tech resource
http://thetechnology.org
It still can be found there. - My words "The last day of occupation of Bilohorka" with turning the camera to the sunset in final scene were recorded on last 40 seconds remaining on my SD card. At that moment we were sure that the losses and logistics paralysis that we inflicted to russians won't leave them a chance to keep Bilohorka. - The stork from the video was successfully healed. (In Ukraine stork is special and cherished bird. It's kinda symbol of new life. In ukrainian folklore all babies are being brought to their young parents by a stork. Having storks nest near your house used to be kinda sign of luck and happiness. When storks go back to their nests in places that suffered of war it means hope for further peace). Hope you've read to the end :) Feel free to ask any questions and stay tuned for our further "collaboration" with
where we're going to review some drone footages showing the role of the drones in modern tactics. Enjoy and thanks. #UkraineRussianWar #UkraineWillWin #UkraineWar "
We are raising as much money as we can for our new Electronic Warfare Equipment Fundraiser for Scruff and his unit.
Scruff and his unit are getting attacked by russians from all sides and are in dire need of the following things:
Thermal Drones
Signal Boosters
Night Vision Goggles
Ear Protection
FPV Drone Parts
EVERY CONTRIBUTION IS IMPORTANT AND NO AMOUNT IS TOO SMALL
NB If you are in the UK please sign this petition to send 4x4’s to Ukraine.
