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The War Room newsletter: Is Russia being out-droned?
Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, invites a Ukrainian drone expert to write a guest edition
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This week I asked Dmytro Putiata, a highly experienced Ukrainian drone operator, who now serves in the 20th Unmanned Systems Brigade, to guest-write for this week's issue of the War Room, The @economist.com's weekly newsletter on defence for subscribers: www.economist.com/europe/….
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy slammed a call for a Victory Day truce on May 9 by Vladimir Putin as cynical, proposing instead an immediate and open-ended ceasefire. Hours later Russia launched a massive and deadly air strike on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls Vladimir Putin’s ceasefire appeal ‘cynical’ as strikes continue
Russia and Ukraine trade rival proposals to pause fighting ahead of second world war anniversary events
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Story lede of the week right here, from my FT colleagues:
Once destined for Dubai, Riyadh, Tehran and Doha, the flowers grown by Ngari Mahihu on the slopes below Mount Kenya are now being fed to his sheep.
“When my sheep break wind, it smells of roses,” he said...
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Donald Trump’s Iran war withers Kenya’s roses and strands its tea
Conflict has crushed Gulf markets and pushed up air freight and shipping costs
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Maybe the real global posture review is the random announcements we made along the way.
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A U.S. defense official said to AP the U.S. military didn’t have prior knowledge of Trump’s decision to pull 5,000 troops from Germany and learned about it “in real time.” apnews.com/article/germ...
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‘I’m fighting two wars. One against the Russians. And one inside myself.’
Ukraine is reshaping warfare through its use of drones. Yet human operators remain at the controls.
For @ftweekend.com, I profiled one Ukrainian FPV drone pilot to examine the personal costs.
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Story here, superbly edited by @cordeliajenkins.bsky.social, with photos by comrade Sasha Maslov.
I hope you'll read about Yana "Multik" Zalevska – daughter, sister, mother and now commander of an all-women drone unit in the 141st Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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‘I’m fighting two wars. One against the Russians. And one inside myself.’
A drone pilot and her all-women unit are waging a new kind of warfare on Ukraine’s eastern front
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Washington has warned European allies, including the UK, Poland, Lithuania and Estonia, to expect long delivery delays for US weapons — including Nasms and Himars — as it scrambles to replenish stockpiles depleted by the Iran war. Deliveries to Ukriane have already been delayed.
w/ FT colleagues
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US warns Europe of delays to arms shipments as Iran war drains stockpiles
Deferred deliveries could include those used in Ukraine’s defence against Russia
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Just ask Claude (or whoever) to talk you through it. And if it's hard to follow, ask it to slow down & explain more simply.
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That is exactly why I wanted to try it, and it works. In theory would be no problem to have it send it to my smart speakers to read out the digest at breakfast.
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Yes. I am asking it to store the log in details in as secure a way as possible, given the set up, but there is some risk involved, so I am not giving it access to my core accounts.
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Loving Openclaw so far. It's now creating a daily digest of kids' nursery/school apps that I struggled to stay across. It can auto-add events to my calendar. It is tracking other things. But even with Sonnet, it isn't cheap. Re-writing the prompt cash is the main token cost.
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