Dexter Filkins on Drones and the Future of Warfare
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Rebnik. Donald Trump has done a 180 on Ukraine, it seems. After insisting he would end the war very, very quickly with some kind of peace deal, the reality of Russia's war seems to have sunk in.
I'm not happy with what Putin's doing. He's killing a lot of people, and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin. I've known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he's sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don't like it at all. Trump recently announced shipments of Patriot missiles and other weapons to Ukraine. Now, throughout this conflict
We've often talked as though the fate of Ukraine depends entirely on what the US is willing to send them. But there's another story here. Ukraine has been inflicting huge losses on the Russian army, the gigantic Russian army, largely with drones, drones that are dirt cheap and disposable and can be made by the Ukrainians themselves. Some are as small as a couple of pounds. Staff writer Dexter Philkins has been reporting on this for the New Yorker
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