10th Brigade sets national record by flying flag over Hoverla

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Ukraine's 10th Separate Edelweiss Mountain Assault Brigade set a new national record by flying its brigade flag over the summit of Hoverla using a drone, according to an announcement by the National Register of Records of Ukraine on October 1.

Soldiers from the brigade's Unmanned Systems Battalion raised a flag measuring 5.65 by 8.95 meters to a height of 794.9 meters above the peak, all while remaining physically in Donetsk Oblast. Organizers cited wind gusts up to 12 meters per second and the flag's 10-kilogram weight as the operation's chief hazards.

The brigade's record-keeper framed the achievement as being about the flag's identity and symbolism rather than altitude, a distinction offered without irony given a drone, not a climber, did the actual ascending. The unit previously held a record for staging a military orchestra concert at Ukraine's highest point in 2019.

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You have to admire the paperwork behind this one. A flag goes up a mountain nobody on the team actually visited, and somehow that still counts as a national record for the people who stayed behind with the remote control. Next they will set a record for the tallest sandcastle built from a laptop two counties over.

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