Russian targeting cameras: what the operator sees

The cameras

What has been found or reported on each platform, at the camera's own published maximum. The picture an operator receives is smaller: see the links below.

From camera to operator

Each chain is the full path a picture takes: capture, encoding, every radio hop and network, the operator's screen, the operator's reaction and the command back. Delays are summed segment by segment, typical with the published best and worst beside it. The best picture is the largest the chain's bitrate carries cleanly from a 2560×1440 camera at 20 fps (Hikvision DS-2CD1343G2-LIUF (probable) 4 MP network turret). Distances are at 600 km/h.

The strikes

Precision attacks cited as evidence that a drone was steered in its last seconds. What is known about each: when, where, which drone and how sure that is, the footage, and the link chains the evidence fits. No source has published the approach geometry of any of them.

• Jet drone into the SBU headquarters, Volodymyrska Street

  strike Confirmed

  Date

  2026-09-04

  Place

  Kyiv, Shevchenkivskyi district, 33 Volodymyrska Street (opposite St Sophia Cathedral)

  Target

  Central building of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU); the SBU and President Zelensky said the drone was aimed at the office of acting SBU head Oleksandr Poklad, who was not there

  Drone

  Geran-4 (confirmed)

  Approach

  unpublished

  Chains the evidence fits

  • Hidden ground relay inside Kyiv → LTE or fixed internet → operator in Russia Marginal
  • Repeater on a rooftop or mast tens of km outside Kyiv → internet → operator Marginal
  • @anna_news 2026-09-04 · bystander
  • @boris_rozhin 2026-09-04 · bystander
  • @anna_news 2026-09-05 · bystander
  The evidence in full

  The strike happened in daylight during an air-raid alert, about 16:00 local time according to a Russian war correspondent’s post (sashakots/64214); the first clip was reposted at 13:33 UTC (16:33 local). The approach before the final dive is the best documented of any case here, though only as cruise data. Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov wrote that all Ukrainian systems tracked the jet drone from the Donetsk direction to Kyiv at more than 7 km altitude, and that two jet drones flew in as a pair, only one arriving. Wreckage was examined and most parts identified as a Geran-4 (serhii_flash/7734, relayed by TSN and ArmyInform); the post carries a route graphic, credited to him by TSN — the only published track for any strike in this file. No dive angle, final altitude, heading or terminal duration has been published. A Russian post asserts the drone came in “from the facade” (rusengineer/10488, a reposted Oleg Tsaryov text); that is an unsupported Russian claim and not used here. Zelensky and the SBU said the drone was deliberately directed at the head’s office; several Russian channels instead alleged the strike was staged by Ukrainians — no evidence was offered and nothing supports it. Steering: Flash’s personal opinion (serhii_flash/7733) is that the drone was flown online through a mesh radio relay with internet access, switched on briefly by an agent within about 5 km, “half the size of a school backpack”, because no other Shahed was airborne to relay — so a chain back to Russia was impossible. He repeated on 3 October that at the moment of the strike there were no relay Shaheds in the sky (serhii_flash/7786). This is a hypothesis; no device was found. Link choice: local-relay-kyiv-internet is Flash’s explicit explanation. mesh-to-tower-outside-kyiv is kept as the geometric alternative: a drone cruising above 7 km has radio line of sight to a mast hundreds of km away (relays.md horizon table), so only the low final descent into the city centre — whose height profile is unpublished — would constrain where a ground node must be. No LTE path is listed: Flash wrote that Kyiv wreckage shows no LTE or other “secret” links (serhii_flash/7786). Not excluded by the evidence: an autonomous optical end-game (HUR reports the Susanin optical correlation unit on the updated Geran-4 in October, after this strike), which would need no link. Re-enactment: weak geometry. Known: origin direction (Donetsk, i.e. roughly from the south-east), cruise above 7 km, target window. Unknown: descent point, dive angle, final heading.

  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 sources

• Claimed strike on a helicopter at Zhuliany airport, filmed from the drone

  strike Claimed

  Date

  2026-09-04

  Place

  Kyiv, Zhuliany airport (Solomianskyi district)

  Target

  A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, according to Russian channels (said to belong to Ukraine's HUR); not confirmed by any Ukrainian source found

  Drone

  Geran-4 (claimed)

  Approach

  unpublished

  Chains the evidence fits

  • Mesh through other drones in the wave → mast in Belarus (~110 km) or Russia (~200+ km) → operator Marginal
  • @sashakots 2026-09-09 · onboard · 1920×1080 as posted, not camera native
  • @anna_news 2026-09-09 · onboard
  • @barantchik 2026-09-10 · satellite
  The evidence in full

  Every element of this case is a Russian claim: the target, the Geran-4 ‘Seeker’ type, the unit and the satellite confirmation. No Ukrainian statement on a helicopter loss at Zhuliany was found. It is kept because it is one of the few Kyiv strikes for which the attacker published a sequence it presents as reconnaissance followed by the strike from the air, which bears on what the camera and link can do. Rybar’s summary of the 50th brigade’s 20 August – 10 September campaign around Kyiv says this hit and a claimed MiG-29 hit at Vasylkiv on 9 September were both “confirmed by objective-control footage” (rybar/83094) — the brigade’s own footage, so not independent. Link choice: airborne-mesh-to-belarus only, because the footage is presented as aerial reconnaissance and strike video from drones over the city, which needs an airborne video path; the onward leg to the operator is not documented in any source, and the Belarus endpoint is the R2 chain’s assumption, not evidence from this strike. No approach data at all. Not a re-enactment candidate.

  1, 2, 3, 4, 5 sources

• Claimed strike on a warehouse in Hostomel, with a day and a black-and-white onboard view

  strike Claimed

  Date

  2026-09-10

  Place

  Hostomel, Kyiv region

  Target

  A logistics warehouse (Russian MoD says it stored drone components; the head of Kyiv regional administration Tymur Tkachenko called it a civilian facility)

  Drone

  not established (claimed)

  Approach

  unpublished

  Chains the evidence fits

  • Mesh through other drones in the wave → mast in Belarus (~110 km) or Russia (~200+ km) → operator Marginal
  • Repeater on a rooftop or mast tens of km outside Kyiv → internet → operator Marginal
  • @sashakots 2026-09-12 · onboard · 1280×720 as posted, not camera native
  The evidence in full

  Kept as a camera-view reference, not as a precision case: the drone type is given only as “Geran” and every detail comes from the Russian MoD and a war correspondent’s description of its video. The value is the description of the picture itself: a wide colour view for navigation, then a close monochrome view with an aiming marker for the final seconds. That fits the camera bay described in a September RFE/RL teardown of a Geran-4 ‘Seeker’ (day, night and infrared channels, 10x optical zoom; recorded on our Geran-4 page), but the platform here is unconfirmed — strand R1 holds the camera sources. Link choice: the operator sees a marker settle on the target, which implies a live video and command path at the end. Hostomel lies outside Kyiv’s dense centre, closer to the Belarus border, so an airborne chain or a ground mast outside the city are both consistent; nothing in the sources identifies either. No approach geometry. Not a re-enactment candidate.

  1 sources

• Inkom business centre, filmed by a second jet drone circling at almost 3 km

  strike Confirmed

  Date

  2026-09-25

  Place

  Kyiv, Solomianskyi district — Shuliavka, near the junction of Beresteiskyi Avenue and Brodskykh Family Street

  Target

  Inkom office building; Russian channels say a Datagroup data centre was inside (Datagroup confirmed a Kyiv data centre was damaged but has not given its address)

  Drone

  Geran-5 (claimed)

  Approach

  unpublished

  Observer

  a second drone orbiting at about 3000 m (source). The simulator can show its view.

  Chains the evidence fits

  • Mesh through other drones in the wave → mast in Belarus (~110 km) or Russia (~200+ km) → operator Marginal
  • @sashakots 2026-09-27 · onboard · 848×480 as posted, not camera native
  • @milinfolive 2026-09-27 · onboard
  • @serhii_flash 2026-09-27 · onboard
  • @tsaplienko 2026-09-27 · onboard
  The evidence in full

  The clearest documented case of how a Kyiv strike was steered and filmed — and it involved no ground relay. Flash: the Inkom office was hit by a Geran-5 while a second jet Shahed flew into Kyiv, circled the strike site at almost 3 km, acted as the mesh relay for the Geran-5’s radio and filmed and passed on video of the attack in real time; it then flew out of the city and destroyed a McDonald’s warehouse. He ruled out satellites, FPV drones launched from a Shahed and agents (serhii_flash/7775). Russian channels also call the striking drone a Geran-5; Flash does not say how the type was identified, so the platform stays ‘claimed’. Pro-Russian bloggers present the clip as live observation from a drone of their own over the city (rusengineer/10571 says the footage was possible “thanks to our bird over Kyiv”). The Kyiv Post reports four killed and seven injured at the office building; Kyiv city authorities later gave five dead. Approach: the striking drone’s path is not published at all; the only height in the record is the observer’s ~3 km orbit. The clip shows the camera’s view from height: a near-vertical, steady, daylight picture with enough detail to count roof fixtures — the best public evidence of picture quality over Kyiv. Link choice: airborne-mesh-to-belarus, because the relay was airborne (documented by Flash). The onward path from the orbiting Shahed to the operator is not stated by Flash; the Belarus endpoint is the R2 chain’s assumption. From 3 km the observer has radio line of sight to the ground over a radius of about 230–270 km (relays.md, our arithmetic table), so a city canyon does not constrain this link. Excluded: local-relay-kyiv-internet (Flash explicitly rules out agents here). Re-enactment: the observer’s geometry (orbit at ~3 km over a known point) can be modelled; the striker’s cannot.

  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 sources

• National Academy of Sciences Presidium, hit at a steep angle

  strike Confirmed

  Date

  2026-09-28

  Place

  Kyiv, central (near the German embassy), Presidium building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

  Target

  Presidium building; an analyst quoted by EUobserver believed the aim was the Academy's vice-president Volodymyr Horbulin, whose office was one floor below the impact (his assistant was killed)

  Drone

  not established (disputed)

  Approach

  unpublished

  The evidence in full

  Footage: deliberately none linked. Al Jazeera describes videos shared online that “appeared to show a fast-moving drone slamming into the building at a steep angle”, but the widely shared imagery of this strike centres on people escaping the burning building, so no clip is linked under the casualty rule. Kept as a contrast case: precise-looking, but neither the platform nor the precision is settled. The Air Force reported 165 attack drones that night, 79 of them jets (kpszsu/80852). Al Jazeera’s description of a steep final angle is the only approach detail published for any strike in this file; no number is given, so dive_angle_deg stays null. The Kyiv Independent wrote about the strike inside a Geran-5 article but calls the weapon only “the jet-black Russian munition”; about an hour later an identical munition hit a private medical clinic a few blocks away. EUobserver cites analyst Viktor Kovalenko’s belief that Horbulin was the target — an opinion. A Russian blogger suggested the intended target was a nearby Ukrtelecom building and that Ukrainian electronic warfare pushed the drone onto the Academy (bomber_fighter/26666) — an unsupported Russian claim, recorded only because it shows the precision itself is contested. Casualties: the Kyiv Independent reports two killed, EUobserver one killed and six injured. Link choice: none. No source names the drone type, a relay, an observer drone or released onboard footage for this strike, so the evidence does not point to any chain. A steep final dive is equally consistent with an autonomous end-game. Not a re-enactment candidate (angle described only in words).

  1, 2, 3, 4, 5 sources

• Repeated hits on the South (Pivdennyi) Bridge pylon support and stays

  strike Confirmed

  Date

  2026-10-01/2026-10-02

  Place

  Kyiv, South (Pivdennyi) Bridge over the Dnipro — cable-stayed road and metro bridge, built 1983

  Target

  The pylon support and, per Russian channels, the steel stay cables; Kyiv's mayor reported damage to a support, the roadway, a crash barrier and the metro fencing

  Drone

  Geran-4 (disputed)

  Approach

  unpublished

  Chains the evidence fits

  • Hidden ground relay inside Kyiv → LTE or fixed internet → operator in Russia Marginal
  • Mesh through other drones in the wave → mast in Belarus (~110 km) or Russia (~200+ km) → operator Marginal
  • @sashakots 2026-10-01 · onboard · 1280×720 as posted, not camera native
  • @boris_rozhin 2026-10-01 · onboard
  • @milinfolive 2026-10-01 · onboard
  • @tsaplienko 2026-10-02 · bystander
  • @yurasumy 2026-10-03 · bystander
  The evidence in full

  What is established: the South Bridge was hit at least five times in about 36 hours on 1–2 October (Ukrainska Pravda), first with two impacts near the support on the morning of 1 October (Klitschko), then again on 1 October, during the night of 1–2 October and on 2 October. Transport over the bridge, including the metro, was suspended. Platform: not officially stated for these strikes. Ukrainian local channels said Geran-5; Russian channels variously say Geran-4 ‘Seeker’ (milinfolive/180648) and Geran-2 (rybar/83630, dva_majors/99862). The best-sourced link is indirect: Flash reported that on 30 September Russia used, for the first time on a jet drone, a cumulative-cutting warhead (KRSN, 40 kg main charge plus four modules) made for pylons and steel bridge structures (serhii_flash/7778), and on 5 October HUR tied the KRSN to the updated Geran-4. Platform recorded as geran-4, attribution disputed. Do not attribute these strikes to the Geran-5. Approach: no direction, angle, altitude or speed has been published. The Ukrainian approach clip (tsaplienko/99824) is the material from which a heading and dive angle could be measured by geolocating the camera; that has not been done publicly. Steering: Flash wrote on 3 October that “without stable online control right up to the moment of impact, it is impossible to hit a bridge support or stay precisely”, and that he had analysed the bridge strikes and whether long-range mesh channels back to Russia were possible at those moments; he concluded that 1–3 mesh relays are being switched on inside Kyiv (serhii_flash/7786). A Russian blogger likewise reads the strikes as Geran ‘Seekers’ flown “like a big FPV drone” (rusengineer/10598) — a claim. A General Staff expert, Maj. Artem Bilyk, spoke of UAVs “in a guided configuration through mesh modems” (Kyiv Post analysis). Link choice: local-relay-kyiv-internet is Flash’s stated conclusion for the bridge strikes. airborne-mesh-to-belarus is kept because the Varyag clip is described as filmed by a Varyag drone, which fits an observer/relay drone as at Inkom. Inference, not evidence: a bridge is a low target over open water; if the run-in followed the river, elevated points on either bank would have an unbroken view of it, but the approach direction is unpublished. Excluded: lte-modem-onboard (Flash: no LTE in wreckage), starlink, analog-fpv. Re-enactment: good target geometry (known structure, known impact points on support and stays, repeated hits), approach unknown — a candidate only if the Ukrainian approach clip is geolocated.

  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 sources

• North (Pivnichnyi) Bridge: deck on 3 October, pylon support on 4 October

  strike Confirmed

  Date

  2026-10-03/2026-10-04

  Place

  Kyiv, North (Pivnichnyi, formerly Moskovskyi) Bridge over the Dnipro — cable-stayed

  Target

  3 Oct: road deck and trolleybus overhead line; 4 Oct: road deck (Kyiv city) — Russian captions say the stay-cable support

  Drone

  Geran-4 (claimed)

  Approach

  unpublished

  Chains the evidence fits

  • Hidden ground relay inside Kyiv → LTE or fixed internet → operator in Russia Marginal
  • Mesh through other drones in the wave → mast in Belarus (~110 km) or Russia (~200+ km) → operator Marginal
  • @uniannet 2026-10-03 · bystander
  • Kyiv Independent · bystander
  • @TSN 2026-10-04 · bystander
  • @milinfolive 2026-10-06 · onboard
  • @anna_news 2026-10-05 · onboard
  The evidence in full

  Established: a jet drone hit the North Bridge on the morning of 3 October (Klitschko), damaging the road deck and the trolleybus line; two people were hurt (Kyiv Post, Kyiv city). Another strike followed on 4 October and damaged the road surface (Klitschko, TSN); Kyiv city repaired the section. The Russian MoD claimed the strike, saying it targeted a military transport route. Platform: UNIAN, a Ukrainian outlet, and Russian channels name the Geran-4; one Russian channel adds the Geran-5. No official Ukrainian identification found. After the strikes light anti-drone nets were hung on the bridge, which Russian channels doubt will stop heavy jet drones. Approach: nothing published — no direction, angle, altitude, speed or duration. Link choice: as for the South Bridge (Flash’s 3 October relay conclusion covers the Kyiv bridge strikes; Varyag released footage from its own drones). Same inference about the open river corridor, same exclusions. Re-enactment: as for the South Bridge — known target and impact points, unknown approach; the UNIAN and TSN clips are the material that could be geolocated.

  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 sources

• Earlier comparison: the Cabinet of Ministers building set on fire

  strike Confirmed

  Date

  2025-09-07

  Place

  Kyiv, Pecherskyi district, Government building (Cabinet of Ministers), Hrushevskoho Street

  Target

  Government building — roof and upper floors

  Drone

  not established (disputed)

  Approach

  unpublished

  The evidence in full

  Included as the earlier comparison the brief asked for, and to show how thin the evidence is. During an overnight attack of about 805 drones and decoys, the government building caught fire for the first time in the war; Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said the roof and upper floors were damaged and an 800 m² fire was put out. Kyiv’s mayor attributed the fire to a likely downed drone (debris), while Ukrainska Pravda’s government sources insisted it was a direct strike; RFE/RL reported it as hit by drones. No drone type, approach or footage of the run-in was found — only photos of the fire and the aftermath (State Emergency Service, Svyrydenko). It predates the jet Gerans’ campaign over Kyiv. Link choice: none; nothing in the evidence shows steering. Not a re-enactment candidate.

  1, 2, 3 sources

Real footage

Links only: nothing is embedded or re-hosted, and each opens at its source. Russian channels' captions are claims. A size is that of the file as posted, after any re-encoding, never the camera's own resolution.

• Kotsnews (Alexander Kots) 2026-10-18Geran "Seeker" (Сикер) forward zoom/thermal camera, model not identified

  Thermal (monochrome) onboard view: a lock frame on a cargo ship's superstructure grows until it fills the screen, followed by a colour frame of the burning ship (Geran). The second half is a Lancet strike on an uncrewed boat.

• Evgeny Poddubny (Поддубный) 2026-10-15Geran "Seeker" (Сикер) forward zoom/thermal camera, model not identified

  Monochrome onboard view with a crosshair, presented as "real-time" MoD footage of Geran-4 strikes on vessels in the Buh estuary and Chornomorsk port.

• Two Majors (Два майора) 2026-10-13Thermal camera on Russian fibre-optic FPV drones (model not identified)

  FPV operator clips presented as a fibre-optic drone strike in Kramatorsk followed by a radio-controlled one (onboard views, claimed; not checked frame by frame).

• Svodki opolcheniya Novorossii 2026-10-07Geran "Seeker" (Сикер) forward zoom/thermal camera, model not identified

  Thermal onboard view over Chornomorsk port with a crosshair, presented as a jet Geran strike on a fuel store; the post says fuel levels show on thermal.

• Russian channel @milinfolive 2026-10-06 · onboard · 24 sNorth (Pivnichnyi) Bridge: deck on 3 October, pylon support on 4 October

  Varyag footage of both strikes (deck on 3 Oct, stay support on 4 Oct), 24 s, 3:4 portrait 720 px wide re-edit. Caption names the Geran-4 'Seeker' (Russian claim).

• Russian channel @anna_news 2026-10-05 · onboardNorth (Pivnichnyi) Bridge: deck on 3 October, pylon support on 4 October

  Varyag channel video, 1:02, captioned as Geran-4 AND Geran-5 strikes on the North Bridge — conflicts with other Russian captions naming only the Geran-4.

• Ukrainian source @TSN 2026-10-04 · bystanderNorth (Pivnichnyi) Bridge: deck on 3 October, pylon support on 4 October

  Footage of the 4 October strike showing the drone hitting the bridge; another outlet notes cars kept moving over the bridge during the strike. Viewpoint not given.

• Russian channel @yurasumy 2026-10-03 · bystanderRepeated hits on the South (Pivdennyi) Bridge pylon support and stays

  Two videos: a person showing damage after the first strike (cut steel railings) and the evening strike of 2 October on the stays. Captions are the blogger's reading.

• Ukrainian source @uniannet 2026-10-03 · bystander · 5 sNorth (Pivnichnyi) Bridge: deck on 3 October, pylon support on 4 October

  UNIAN: the moment of the morning jet drone strike on the North Bridge, 5 s, landscape file 848 px wide (16:9 class). Caption names the Geran-4. Viewpoint (dashcam, CCTV or phone) not stated.

• Ukrainian source @tsaplienko 2026-10-02 · bystander · 5 sRepeated hits on the South (Pivdennyi) Bridge pylon support and stays

  Ukrainian journalist's clip of the drone's run-in onto the bridge ('the moment of approach'), 5 s, near-square portrait file 1072 px wide — a phone, not a fixed camera. The only Ukrainian-side clip found that shows the approach rather than the explosion.

• Russian channel @sashakots 2026-10-01 · onboard · 1280×720 as posted · 5 sRepeated hits on the South (Pivdennyi) Bridge pylon support and stays

  50th 'Varyag' brigade footage of the 1 October morning strike, 5 s, posted as 1280×720 (16:9). The poster calls it probably a ranging shot. Whether it is from the striking drone or an observer is not stated.

• Russian channel @boris_rozhin 2026-10-01 · onboard · 5 sRepeated hits on the South (Pivdennyi) Bridge pylon support and stays

  Same 5 s, 1280×720 clip, captioned 'the South Bridge in the lens of a Varyag drone' — wording that suggests a filming drone, not necessarily the striker.

• Russian channel @milinfolive 2026-10-01 · onboard · 6 sRepeated hits on the South (Pivdennyi) Bridge pylon support and stays

  Varyag footage of the strike on the stay-cable pylon support that morning, 6 s, re-posted as a 3:4 portrait file 720 px wide (likely a re-edit for phones); caption names the Geran-4 'Seeker' (Russian claim).

• Military Informant (Военный осведомитель) 2026-09-27Geran "Seeker" (Сикер) forward zoom/thermal camera, model not identified

  High overhead view of the Inkom business centre in Kyiv at the moment of the Geran-5 hit (25 September 2026), with a Varyag brigade watermark. Beskrestnov says an accompanying jet Shahed at almost 3 km filmed it, not the Geran-5. Kotsnews describes the same clip at https://t.me/sashakots/64702.

• Russian channel @sashakots 2026-09-27 · onboard · 848×480 as postedInkom business centre, filmed by a second jet drone circling at almost 3 km

  The strike seen from above by the observing drone, not by the striking one. The poster describes a clear day, the camera hanging over Shuliavka, cars moving on the avenue, roof ventilation boxes on Inkom countable, a steady picture 'without jerks or breaking-up pixels'; three seconds, then a flash at the facade, a fireball and smoke. Posted as 848×480 (16:9). The impact is at the facade, so the view shows the building, not the victims.

• Ukrainian source @serhii_flash 2026-09-27 · onboard · 3 sInkom business centre, filmed by a second jet drone circling at almost 3 km

  Flash reposts the enemy's 3 s clip with his explanation: it was filmed and transmitted live by a jet Shahed circling the target at almost 3 km, which also relayed the Geran-5's radio signals.

• Ukrainian source @tsaplienko 2026-09-27 · onboard · 2 sInkom business centre, filmed by a second jet drone circling at almost 3 km

  Ukrainian journalist reposts the Russian clip (2 s version, 848×480) and dates the strike to 25 September.

• Kotsnews (Alexander Kots) 2026-09-18Geran "Seeker" (Сикер) forward zoom/thermal camera, model not identified

  Onboard clips with a green lock box on a cargo ship, presented as Geran-4 Seeker strikes on five ships at Pivdennyi, Chornomorsk, Odesa and at sea.

• Two Majors (Два майора) 2026-09-16Molniya forward FPV camera (Caddx on Molniya-1; unidentified on Molniya-2R)

  Strike clips presented as the work of a Molniya-2 unit on the Kherson axis, ending in an ammunition detonation; low-angle view consistent with the drone's own camera (claimed).

• Serhii Flash (Ukrainian) 2026-09-14Molniya forward FPV camera (Caddx on Molniya-1; unidentified on Molniya-2R)

  Video he says shows a Molniya pilot flying by a mechanical compass the camera looks down at, i.e. the Molniya's own camera view.

• Russian channel @sashakots 2026-09-12 · onboard · 1280×720 as posted · 10 sClaimed strike on a warehouse in Hostomel, with a day and a black-and-white onboard view

  Russian MoD 'objective control', 10 s, posted as 1280×720 (16:9). The poster describes two approaches: a daytime colour view of the outskirts with chequered fields and a row of hangars along an access road, then a close black-and-white view in which 'the marker settles on' a low flat-roofed warehouse. The marker is an on-screen overlay — evidence of a target box or reticle drawn on the operator's picture. The black-and-white close view may be a second camera or a night/IR channel; the post does not say.

• Voenacher (Военачальник), repost on Colonel Cassad https://t.me/boris_rozhin/225417 2026-09-10Geran "Seeker" (Сикер) forward zoom/thermal camera, model not identified

  Four onboard clips presented as Geran-4 Seeker strikes in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district: a truck park, the Imperial Tobacco factory and warehouses at Zavodska rail station. Overhead city view with a crosshair and target box; one clip carries a RIA Novosti mark.

• Evgeny Poddubny (Поддубный) 2026-09-10Geran "Seeker" (Сикер) forward zoom/thermal camera, model not identified

  Onboard approach presented as a Geran-4 Seeker strike on a truck park in Kyiv; overhead view with a target box and MoD emblem.

• Russian channel @barantchik 2026-09-10 · satelliteClaimed strike on a helicopter at Zhuliany airport, filmed from the drone

  Text claim only: says satellite images covering 28 August – 8 September show the helipad burnt out. No image source or provider is named; not verified.

• Russian channel @sashakots 2026-09-09 · onboard · 1920×1080 as posted · 55 sClaimed strike on a helicopter at Zhuliany airport, filmed from the drone

  55 s compilation credited to the 50th 'Varyag' unmanned-systems brigade: what the captions call air reconnaissance of the parked helicopters, then the strike and a large fire. Posted as 1920×1080 (16:9), the largest file of any clip in this set — the posted size, not the camera's native resolution. Released five days after the event.

• Russian channel @anna_news 2026-09-09 · onboard · 35 sClaimed strike on a helicopter at Zhuliany airport, filmed from the drone

  Same brigade footage (35 s and 55 s) bundled with a claimed MiG-29 hit at Vasylkiv. Caption claims drones heading for Kyiv spotted a MiG-29 in flight and a following drone was sent after it — an unverified Russian account that implies live video from drones in flight.

• Colonel Cassad (Boris Rozhin), reposting @ZalaAero 2026-09-08Lancet (Izdeliye-51) camera with GK-BX4M camera board and video processing unit

  Onboard Lancet clips presented as an IRRA-guided strike on an M109 Paladin near Druzhkivka.

• Kotsnews (Alexander Kots) 2026-09-06Geran "Seeker" (Сикер) forward zoom/thermal camera, model not identified

  Onboard approach with a target box, presented as MoD footage of Geran-4 Seeker strikes on logistics centres near Mykolaiv and at Dachne near Odesa.

• Russian channel @anna_news 2026-09-05 · bystanderJet drone into the SBU headquarters, Volodymyrska Street

  'New footage' of the same impact, posted a day later; no detail on viewpoint in the caption.

• Russian channel @anna_news 2026-09-04 · bystander · 7 sJet drone into the SBU headquarters, Volodymyrska Street

  Reposted Ukrainian local clip of the moment of impact on the building (caption says 'first footage', source not named). Posted as a 3:4 portrait file, 752 px wide, 7 s — consistent with a phone filming upright, not a fixed camera. Caption calls the drone a Geran-4 (relaying Zelensky).

• Russian channel @boris_rozhin 2026-09-04 · bystander · 33 sJet drone into the SBU headquarters, Volodymyrska Street

  Two reposted clips of the strike (33 s and 7 s). The channel itself says it does not know who struck; the Russian MoD never claimed the strike.

• Two Majors (Два майора), reposting ZALA 2026-09-01Lancet (Izdeliye-51) camera with GK-BX4M camera board and video processing unit

  Onboard Lancet view with a target box over a treeline, presented as an IRRA recognition lock on an IRIS-T SLM launched from almost 200 km (ZALA watermark). The recognition claim is ZALA's.

• Evgeny Poddubny (Поддубный), relaying the Russian MoD 2026-08-14Geran "Seeker" (Сикер) forward zoom/thermal camera, model not identified

  MoD "objective control" of a Geran-4 Seeker strike on a logistics hub in Brovary near Kyiv. The first clip is an onboard approach with a crosshair; the other two are ground views of the smoke. Also posted at https://t.me/sashakots/63746.

• Kotsnews (Alexander Kots) 2026-08-13Geran "Seeker" (Сикер) forward zoom/thermal camera, model not identified

  Onboard approach over the port of Ochakiv, presented as a Geran-4 Seeker strike on a CB90 patrol boat on 12 August.

• Serhii Flash (Ukrainian, reposting Russian footage) 2026-07-22Geran "Seeker" (Сикер) forward zoom/thermal camera, model not identified

  Beskrestnov reposts a video of a Shahed Seeker attacking a locomotive with people nearby. He says the pilot could see them and that the drone carried a powerful camera with target lock. The viewpoint was not verified beyond his description.

• Euromaidan Press, embedding the Zampotekh Omelianovych video (Ukrainian) 2025-11-27Geran-3 video camera with live feed (unidentified; kit matches Geran-2 'Ъ' series)

  Recovered Geran-3 on the ground with its camera and mesh modem shown working. Not combat footage.

• Serhii Flash (Ukrainian) 2025-08-30Viewpro A40-series gimbal camera (variant not stated)

  Test footage recovered from the camera's storage, filmed at the maker's site in China (roads, tracked cars). Not combat footage.

• Third party Kyiv Independent · bystanderNorth (Pivnichnyi) Bridge: deck on 3 October, pylon support on 4 October

  Kyiv Independent short 'The moment a Russian drone struck Kyiv bridge' (search index title names the Pivnichnyi Bridge); upload date not read.

What the evidence shows

What it means for relays

Method