In December 2022 the Telegram account Lachen Pyshe announced a public fundraising campaign called Hovor Khell, for a domestic unmanned aerial vehicle for Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR).
During July and August 2023 a number of drones struck the IQ-quarter high-rise buildings in Moscow two days in a row.
The Bober drone appear to have a rear-mounted pusher propeller and potentially has a sensor package in the nose.
The emphasis on the use of drones like the Bober go to a comment from the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who said on 30 July 2023 that "gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia – to its symbolic centers and military bases, and this is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process".
[3][4][5][6] On 9 July 2024, Ukrainian Bober drones struck a Russian missile testing facility at Kapustin Yar.