I thought this article from AP News did as well. Sometimes I get distracted by the politics or execution of the war and forget that it is, well, a war.
PHOTO ESSAY: Portraits of Ukrainians on the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians have now lived with four years of war. They have lost limbs, loved ones, livelihoods and homes, but not hope.
Are there more than just the two photos somewhere?
I see two photos for each of the seven stories. On my phone the web page stops scrolling at each pair of photos, then you can continue to scroll.
OK, it took me some time to type out my response that showed there was nothing other than a picture that would change after a minute. When I went back, there was more to the page. It must just be incredibly slow to load.
Thanks.
Long article. It raises several interesting points. Morale in Ukraine is still reasonably good.
PTSD has to be very bad for FPV drone operators. They’re seeing the weapon impacts on people.
20km = 12.4 miles
The three most feared letters on the battlefield are FPV, standing for “first-person view.” FPV drones are major killers, used by both Ukraine and Russia. They have cameras that feed information back to their controllers in a command centre that might be 30 or 40km away. We visited a few of them, hidden away in basements of wrecked buildings or nondescript village houses.
But now drones have transformed the way the war is fought, and armies across the world are watching closely, being forced to change their ideas of how to fight.
The narrow confrontation line that used to exist between the two sides is now extended across a broad swathe of land that both sides call the kill zone, stretching perhaps 20km either side of the forward positions of the two armies. Rear positions for logistics and dealing with casualties that used to be relatively safe are now as lethal as the old front line.
The skies above get saturated with surveillance drones, making movement extremely dangerous. Social media feeds are full of terrifying videos filmed from FPV drones as they swoop into their targets, sometimes chasing down individuals in the open, or even entering buildings, threading their way through rooms and doorways until they find their quarry. The last shot is often of a horrified man about to die.
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Not sure how readable this is for non-subscribers to New Scientist, but it’s a look into the drone war from Ukraine’s POV:
Ukraine has responded to a war it didn’t start by creating an industry it doesn’t want, but could the nation's drone expertise help it rebuild? To learn more, New Scientist gained exclusive access to the research labs, factories and military training...
The USA and Israel bombing Iran may not be the best of ideas, but it will likely at least have the beneficial effect of disrupting Iranian support to Russia in some sort of way. Perhaps fewer Shahed drones striking Ukraine.