The Big Take
The Toy Drones Helping Keep Ukraine’s War Effort Alive
A cottage industry of drone-makers has emerged in Ukraine. On today’s Big Take podcast: Could their scrappy innovations shift the way wars are fought?
Pilots in the Kharkiv region prepare drones for combat in May.
Photographer: Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images
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A growing number of Ukrainian entrepreneurs, engineers and tech workers are joining the war effort against Russia, making and delivering a key tool: drones. They’re low-cost, high-impact and can do everything from transporting supplies to dropping bombs across enemy lines.