In Ukraine, the warfare of the longer term is already right here | EUROtoday

UVigilance filled with apprehension fills the room. ” Silence ! Shh! » At the command post, in a secret location, several tens of kilometers from Pokrovsk and the neighboring town of Myrnohrad, the soldiers remotely pilot a latest generation Lynx, a ground drone whose progress they follow live.

Their eyes glued to their screens, round ten in all, they scrutinize the photographs filmed by the 2 cameras of the remotely managed car. Despite the bumps and craters, the picture doesn’t shake and divulges an city panorama of desolation: the middle of Myrnohrad, a mining city in jap Ukraine which had some 45,000 inhabitants earlier than the warfare.

In the center of the roadway cluttered with particles, twisted items of metal, scattered rubble, electrical wires cling…