Flora, the mother of Warrant Officer (res.) Alexander Glovanyov, said Monday that she had spoken to her son regularly until he was killed by an explosive-laden FPV drone near the Lebanese border.
“I called him and he would always tell me, ‘Everything is fine.’ Until yesterday. Until yesterday, it was fine,” she told ynet in an interview. “Alexander was a very good person. He was my only son. I have no one now.”
Glovanyov, 47, from Petah Tikva, is survived by his wife and two children, an 8-month-old daughter and a 15-year-old son.
“He was an athlete. We came to Israel in 1996,” his mother said. “They told us it happened at the border, when he was on base. We last spoke two days ago. I was afraid because of what was happening in the north. I was in touch with him and he said everything was fine. What am I supposed to do now? My life is over. That’s it.”
Glovanyov served as a heavy vehicle driver in the 6924th Transport Battalion. He was killed Sunday when several first-person-view (FPV) drones launched from Lebanon detonated inside Israeli territory near the border.
Three reservists were wounded Saturday by FPV drones in the Shlomi area near the Lebanese border. One was seriously wounded, while a reserve officer and another soldier were moderately wounded.
The military continued efforts Sunday to provide operational solutions for forces maneuvering in southern Lebanon against the threat of drones and UAVs. Thousands of meters of fishing nets have been delivered across the border to maneuvering units, to help trap drones before they can detonate near troops or infrastructure.
The measures come alongside firearms used to neutralize aerial threats and the deployment of additional technological systems to detect, warn of and intercept UAVs, which have created another battlefield challenge for Israeli forces.