A student of the school for drone pilots practices during a lesson, in an undisclosed location, Ukraine, June 30, 2023.(Alina Smutko/Reuters)

It didn’t take a recent trip to Ukraine (primarily Kyiv and Kharkiv) to convince me that the outcome of the Russo-Ukrainian war may well hinge on the drone war now being waged between the two combatants, but nothing I saw while I was there changed my mind on that topic. On the contrary. . . .

I was traveling with a small group of journalists on a visit arranged and sponsored by Razom for Ukraine, a humanitarian and advocacy group. While we were in Kyiv, a large Russian onslaught on the city using both drones and ballistic missiles meant spending most ...

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