FOUR years after Russia unleashed its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the first 20 miles of the frontline have turned into a haunted strip of earth where neither infantry nor tanks dare to linger.
Between the abandoned dugouts, a killing zone lies – so exposed and so relentlessly watched that only machines now move with any regularity.
Soldiers call it “no man’s land”. This is where Ukrainian forces hunt for the enemy usingdrones– the ever-changingtechnologythat has reshaped the geometry of the war.
Patrick Shepherd from defence technology firm Milrem Robotics told The Sun: “They have changed the world – like gunpowder, it is never going back in the bottle.
“It is so cheap, effective and real. The genie is out of the bottle. The way we do everything in the future is going to change.”
Ivan Stupak, a military expert and ex-officer in Ukraine’s security services (SBU), told The Sun that as of 2026, drones are responsible for around 70 percent ofall injuries along parts of the front.
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“Unfortunately, this is on both sides of thefrontline–RussiaandUkraine,” he said.
For Ukrainian and Russian infantries, drones are their guardian – but also executioner. The weapons have long been dubbed the silent killers of the sky and some are known as the “sky’s assassins” – such as America’s MQ-9 Reaper.
Source: Drudge Report
