{"id":135348,"date":"2025-03-04T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135348"},"modified":"2025-03-04T17:51:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T22:51:35","slug":"a-thousand-snipers-in-the-sky-the-new-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135348","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) A Thousand Snipers in the Sky: The New War in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When a mortar round exploded on top of their American-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, the Ukrainian soldiers inside were shaken but not terribly worried, having been hardened by artillery shelling over three years of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then the small drones started to swarm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They targeted the weakest points of the armored Bradley with a deadly precision that mortar fire doesn\u2019t possess. One of the explosive drones struck the hatch right above where the commander was sitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt tore my arm off,\u201d recounted Jr. Sgt. Taras, the 31-year-old commander who, like others, used his first name in accordance with Ukrainian military protocols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scrambling for a tourniquet, Sergeant Taras saw that the team\u2019s driver had also been hit, his eye blasted from its socket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/03\/03\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-war-drones-deaths.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Drones are now responsible for 70% of deaths and casualties in the Ukraine war.<br><br>A Thousand Snipers in the Sky: The New War in Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/53dQU6uF2q\">https:\/\/t.co\/53dQU6uF2q<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Martin Ford (@MFordFuture) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MFordFuture\/status\/1896559902484767017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a mortar round exploded on top of their American-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, the Ukrainian soldiers inside were shaken but not terribly worried, having been hardened by artillery shelling over three years of war. But then the small drones<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135348\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[438,143,106,479,95,469,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-burial-funerals","category-defense-national-security-military","category-military-armed-forces","category-russia","category-science-technology","category-ukraine","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135348"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135367,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135348\/revisions\/135367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}