UAV event in Ukraine on Mon 18th May 2026

18th May 2026

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18 May a Russian drone with an unexploded warhead was found in a field near the village of Agronomiya in Mykolaiv region; the device fell a few kilometers from the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant. Photos of the find and the circumstances of the incident were published on Facebook by Yaroslav Didenko, who noted that the UAV fell on a plot prepared for sunflower sowing, and the drone itself was found several kilometers from the nuclear power plant.

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