Ukraine’s drone campaign has forced Russia to start rationing its own gasoline, and the squeeze has split the country in two. Where the drones reach the refineries, regions ration what fuel remains; where they cannot, officials stockpile in anticipation of a shortage that has not yet arrived. On 6 andContinue Reading
I have not been to a literary evening in years, and as I find a place in the garden of Franko House on the evening of 25 June—the closing night of a fellowship named for a Ukrainian writer a Russian missile killed three years ago—I am already a little sorryContinue Reading
The cameras were up and the film was rolling, and so was the ScanJack 3500—the biggest machine on the field, four wheels, roughly the size of a bus. It crawled along the sandy ground for over five minutes, engine deafening, its chains churning the soil and raising a cloud ofContinue Reading
Ukraine’s drone war on Russian refineries has reached the gas pump in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Restrictions on gasoline sales hit the two capitals in mid-June, part of a shortage that the independent outlet The Moscow Times says now spans more than 25 Russian regions. Its drones hit Russian refineriesContinue Reading