‘Amazon’ for the front lines

A Ukrainian drone operator lookinh over a storage room of new drones before they are tested in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. Ukraine has created online marketplaces to let units select their own drones, a break from generations of standardised and centralised weapons procurement. — Nicole Tung/The New York Times

IN an icy bunker in eastern Ukraine, Capt Denys Poliachenko was worried as Russian forces built up equipment about 30km away.

His attack drones, their batteries sapped by temperatures far below freezing, could not reach that far.

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