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Ukraine Frontline 'Kill Zone': Troops Shelter Underground as Drones Dominate No-Man's Land

| Ukraine War

NPR reports on the attritional drone warfare conditions on Ukraine's front lines, where troops hunker underground as drones buzz overhead in a relentless contest. The 'Kill Zone' describes stretches of no-man's land where any surface movement draws immediate drone response, forcing soldiers to rely on underground networks for movement, limiting resupply and reinforcement operations and defining the slow, grinding nature of the current front.