Russians feel strain of Putin's war with mobile internet shutdowns

This is quite a desperate tactic because you are accepting mounting economic loss and disruption of civilian life,” said Bob Tollast, a land warfare expert at the Royal United Services Institute, a defense and security think tank in London. Many Ukrainian drones have multiple navigation methods, such as GPS, to mitigate the impact of the outages, he said. Stopping drones connecting to a civilian cell network also requires the Russian government to black out large areas, he said.