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One night with Ukrainian drone hunters near Russia

Editor’s note: Due to the security protocols of the Ukrainian military, soldiers featured in this story are identified solely by first names and call signs. SUMY OBLAST – Soldiers from one of Ukraine’s 117th Territorial Defense Brigade mobile air defense squads call themselves fowlers. The unit’s task is

(Alexander Khrebet / The Kyiv Independent)Sounds of incoming artillery punctuate the clear and silent night as the soldiers stay glued to a map on a tablet running software that tracks Shaheds. (Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy / Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)The Kyiv Independent shares two available cups for three people, taking sips in turns with Ranger while Dias carefully listens to the silence of woods and sky. A group of military officers, local police chiefs, border guards, emergency service workers, and farmers gather around a map of Sumy Oblast’s Myropillia community in an undisclosed location around a mile from Russia.

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