There's something poetic about the way that birds in Ukraine are now building nests from drone cable. Out of the machinery of death, these birds are nurturing new life. But there is also something telling about that story: that drones – so synonymous with the war – are becoming part of the natural landscape.
Ukrainian drone innovation is one of the great stories of this conflict. Against a much larger, more experienced, highly industrialised Russian military, one with more active personnel, aircraft, ships, tanks, artillery, and armored fighting units, the Ukrainians had little to draw on but their ingenuity, fuelled financially by the West.
