Inside the Lives of Ukraine’s Tired, Determined Drone Pilots
Government
A column of smoke rises on the horizon, and birds scatter from the trees as the green van barrels down the muddy road. It’s January 21, the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, and a Ukrainian Army drone unit is on a reconnaissance mission on the border of the Volnovakha region of Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine. The van comes to a stop under a tangle of branches, concealing it from enemy drones above, and the soldiers jump out. Yevhen, the unit’s navigator, unloads a V-shaped drone and begins
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