Dragon drones blaze new trail


Ukrainian drone operators preparing to test a new drone in Donetsk region. — ©2024 The New York Times Company

IT was a familiar and vexing problem: Russian soldiers were using the dense cover of tree lines to prepare to storm Ukrainian trenches.

“We used a lot of resources to try and drive them out and destroy them,” said Capt Viacheslav, 30, commander of the 68th Separate Jaeger Brigade’s strike drone company known as “Dovbush’s Hornets”.

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