Inside Ukraine’s Secret Sea-Drone Unit: ‘We Sank Russian Ships’

Kyiv Post’s Kateryna Zakharchenko sits down with “Thirteen,” the commander of Ukraine’s Military Intelligence (HUR) special unit Group 13, the team behind the Magura sea drones. He reveals how the unit carried out its first strikes on Russian ships, how naval drone warfare transformed in 2024, and why the Black Sea remains a key battlefield in Russia’s war against Ukraine.

“We started from zero — no equipment, no resources — but we built something that changed the course of the war at sea.”