Drone war defines conflict


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  • Wednesday, 01 May 2024

A Ukrainian soldier flies a drone with an attached blue battery pack and dummy bomb at a testing site near Kreminna in eastern Ukraine. — ©2024 The New York Times Company

THE Ukrainian soldier swore and tore off his headset. His video monitor had gone blurry at first, the landscape of shattered trees and shell craters barely visible, before blacking out completely.

The Russians had jammed the signal of his drone as it was flying outside the town of Kreminna in eastern Ukraine.

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