Ukrainian drone operator and a drone in New York, Ukraine
A Ukrainian drone operator from the 24th separate mechanized brigade near Donetsk, Ukraine, on August 8, 2023.
  • A Ukrainian drone operator said the skies over Kharkiv are swamped with drones.
  • There are so many of them that "nobody knows how to advance," Gleb Molchanov told The Guardian.
  • Their overwhelming use has made conventional NATO policy "pretty much obsolete," he said.

A Ukrainian drone operator said there are so many drones over parts of Ukraine right now that neither Russian nor Ukrainian soldiers know how to move forward.

Gleb Molchanov, who is fighting close to the city of Kupiansk in Kharkiv, told The Guardian that "nobody really knows how to advance right now."