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Three months ago, as Ukrainian troops were struggling to advance against Russian forces in the south, the military's headquarters in Kyiv quietly deployed a valuable new weapon to the battlefield.
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The goal, Fedorov said, is 10,000 drones flying along the vast front line, to broadcast the fighting without interruption.
