The corn in the fields stands several feet tall — it hasn’t been harvested in a long time. Villages are destroyed and deserted. Burnt-out car wrecks line the roadsides. There is no sign of fighting — the area in the Kharkiv region near the Russian border looks downright eerie. These images from reconnaissance drones and stationary video cameras are continuously transmitted to the monitors at a Ukrainian command post. Here, the National Guard’s Khartiia Brigade monitors the region. The post is a