Bar and Fiksyk of the Khartiia Brigade practice FPV drone flying outside Kharkiv.
Under the protection of a forest outside Kharkiv on the northeastern front, Ukrainian soldiers are staccatoed throughout the birch and linden trees as they practice flying first-person-view (FPV) drones. Civilians walking dogs or seeking moments of relative quiet stroll past; there's high-pitched buzzing from these small 10-inch drones, undercut by intermittent air raid alarms blasting from the city. These have become ubiquitous sounds of war in Ukraine over the past four years.
This is a war now fought not only with soldiers, but on the Ukrainian side, fortified by DIY drone economies— built underground, funded by civilians—many
