The development of the drone, which carries a thermal-imaging camera to identify its targets, marked an early sign of the ingenuity of Kyiv’s engineers, who adapted a simple agricultural tool into one of the cheapest, most effective weapons of the war. A unit commander there thought to make use of the skills Oleksander had learnt over his career, and asked him to try to extend the flight time of the drones used by the squad. Last week, the United States urged Ukraine to drop its conscription age to 18, with an unnamed official saying that manpower was the army’s most critical challenge as Russia’s forces advance across the eastern front and in Kursk, the Russian region where Kyiv’s army has carved out a precarious foothold.
Author: The Telegraph
Published at: 2024-11-30 16:00:00
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