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Ukrainian soldiers rose in the predator, extended, rubbed their eyes and rolled the sleeping bags in a basement on the basement near the confrontation line in the east of the country. Their day will not take them away. Most of them remained on the basement, worked with keyboards and drones control.

In a dangerous moment for Ukraine, the country is volatile between the hopes that President Trump Conflict talks The war and concerns will end that the United States will withdraw military support, and the soldiers were participating in the initiative of the Ukrainian army, which Kiev hopes to allow it to stay in the fighting of American weapons.

On Sunday, after a week of uncommon war in Ukraine, including The bloodiest attack on Kyiv, the capitalWithin almost a year, the Trump administration released some somewhat conflicting signals about what will happen after that. President Trump held a short meeting with President Voludimir Zellinski from Ukraine during the weekend in which Mr. Trump said he walked well, and in subsequent comments he did not rule out more weapons. But Foreign Minister Marco Rubio warned that the United States was Close to walk away From the peace table and said next week it will be “very important.”

If peace talks fail, or the United States decides to stop arms shipments, the Ukrainian drone initiative is likely to take more importance than ever. The program, which is called the drone, doubles on drones that are collected in Ukraine, most of which are small drones that explode from the lower floor shelters.

The program is a reminder, again, with Ukraine’s ability to innovate during this war, which helped her to face her much older enemy.

“The man is no longer against man,” said the captain of the team, who works from the basement in eastern Ukraine.

The group flies drones from the first width, which gives the pilot the equivalent video to the front -row seat while worrying about the bombs in Russian soldiers, cars, tanks, or hideouts. Watching with the military protocol, the leader asked to be recognized only by his first name and rank, ARTEM.

Even before the drone program program, Ukraine was highly dependent on the uninhabited weapons, which it is now inflicting About 70 percent of all injuries In the war on both sides, the Ukrainian army says – more than all other weapons combined, including tanks, hayzer, mortar and land mines. While these other weapons are partially provided by the United States, Ukrainians collect domestic drones from the components mostly made in China.

Extensive aircraft program, in business since last fall but was officially announced in February, is the Kiev B plan if it was to end the war, which started with the full invasion of Russia in 2022.

Done -sides are already constantly close to the battlefield. In a drone war, Russia has a feature of quantity, while Ukraine has a quality advantage, and it often becomes new technological methods. These aircraft include aircraft drones to extend the range of drones and drones with flawless and flawed fiber fiber threads.

The drone line talks were overwhelmed by the ceasefire talks and Mr. Trump’s evaluation of Ukraine’s chances without assistance in the United States. (“You don’t have cards,” Mr. Zellinski said in A controversial oval office meeting). But the deployment of drones has already resulted in results, according to military analysts.

It has been partially credited with a three -month slowdown in the Russian attack in Ukraine. The Russian forces that rose forward in the past fall were in a virtual booth since January, despite the attacks on the Russian army.

The Russian attack reached its climax in November with the seizure of this month from 279 square miles of Ukrainian lands, according to Dibstati, an analytical group with relations with the Ukrainian army. In March, Russia seized only 51 square miles, and showed the group analysis. The main gain for Russia was during the winter season Ukraine is expelled from all, or almost all of them, in the Kursk region Inside Russia.

The Ukrainian program will fill in four drones to become drone, and expand each of about 700 soldiers to 2,500 armed soldiers with drones from the first person, others drop bombs, and unmanned ground systems. It includes the latest vehicles that are controlled by an armed dimension with machine guns.

All wars stimulate innovation, from the invention of radar during World War II to night vision glasses in Vietnam. But the drone strategy in Ukraine was also born from a major weakness in its army after more than three years of war: the flower motivation for the Ukrainians to join the army. Since the evasion project has become widespread, the renewal of power has become a challenge.

Drones do not replace soldiers. In fact, each flight from the first person of the first person can require up to four soldiers. For flights last week in northeastern Ukraine, a pilot drone, a navigator, an employee, and a drone.

But recruiting these parking is easier than finding pedestrian soldiers who will be served in trenches.

With a lower number of soldiers from Russia, Ukraine wants to reduce direct connections. This is where drones come.

The strategy focuses on the Earth belt about 18 miles behind the confrontation line in Russia. It can prevent the saturation of the airspace on this area with survey and drones from Russian soldiers from gathering for attacks. The drones, flying about 80 miles per hour, can outperform anything that moves on the ground.

“The fair evaluation is that it works,” said Michael Kaufman, a older -class colleague of the Gift of International Peace. He said that the shortage of Russian equipment and winter weather playing a role as well.

Mr. Kaufman said the goal is to design a power “that can close large parts of the forehead” and keep itself without help. However, Ukraine still deeply depends on the United States and European matters of air defense systems to defend cities against missiles far from the confrontation line.

This is the goal of the program to expand over time, as pilots with experience with experience with soldiers in other units shares in an attempt to complicate Russian logistical services, air defense and electronic wars behind the front lines, Yuri Vidorinko, commander of Achille regiment, said in an interview. “The idea is to cover the entire front line” with drones.

The Ukrainian army conducted a test last year when Republicans in the Congress stopped on an additional spending bill for Ukraine. Artillery ammunition fell to the extent that some crews fired only smoke shells. In one section of the front, near Chance City YarDone -made aircraft crew compensation for a wave of attacks that disrupted Russia’s attack.

The drones cost between 500 to 750 dollars each, that is, less than large -caliber artillery shells, which cost about 3000 dollars.

Other armies take note. This year, the US Marine Infantry squad formed the first drone attack team flying drones from the first person.

The private artem works with Achille regiment, one of the recently expanded units in the drone program. Like the fifth of all recruits in the regiment, he is a former computer programmer who worked in the use of external sources in Ukraine before the Russian invasion.

Although working on the cover is about three miles from the confrontation line, the drones crews do not spare the barbarism of the war or the danger.

On Friday, the Ukrainian crew caught a Russian soldier in the open, skipping on the green grass for the Oskil River flood. He was running for safety in a garden of trees. However, the final video feeding shown is close to camouflage, indicating that he did not make it.

Later in the day, the Ukrainian soldiers who put the outdoor drones remained out of view as a noisy Russian natural aircraft before they accelerated and collided nearly with a loud mutation.

Yurii Syvala It contributed to the reports from Kharkif, Ukraine.