Technology is the key to breaking the stalemate with Russia. Ukraine needs help with that.
Ukrainian soldiers run to reload a howitzer along the front lines on Oct. 23 in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. should meet some of the military amputees who are gathered at a hospital in Lviv learning to use their new limbs and, if possible, return to the battlefield.gives to amputees struggling to walk. She runs the prosthetic clinic called Superhumans that I visited in early last month. Her words could be a motto for Ukraine itself.
The Ukraine war is nearing another inflection point, according to Kyiv’s top general, Valery Zaluzhny. To break out of the bloody stalemate, “technology is the answer,”. He said Ukraine needs more drones, missiles, jet fighters, air-defense weapons, and electronic-warfare and mine-breaching tools to “escape from that trap.” This aid can come only from America and its partners.
The casualties were horrific. You can see the impact at the clinic in Lviv. A soldier named Alex who had the left side of his body ravaged by an explosion now learns to kick a soccer ball with his prosthesis. A double amputee named Vadim wobbles as he tests his new legs.Many of these soldiers can’t return to battle, but others, less badly wounded, are rejoining units. “Every time I hear they want to go back to the front lines, I hate it,” Rudneva said.
Drones are crucial in this war, but they’re a double-edged weapon. Ukraine at first imported its drones from Turkey, the United States and other countries, but it’s now manufacturing more than half its fleet at home, Oleksandr Kamyshin, Ukraine’s minister of strategic industries, told us.
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