The Ukrainian president warned airlines, insurers and foreign governments that the growing scale of Kyiv’s drone operations would make Russian airspace increasingly unsafe for aircraft.

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    5 hours ago

    While Ukraine has a huge domestic drone assembly industry, I’m sure a lot of the basic chips and radios are still coming from China. It’s not hyperbole to say the war hinges on that supply continuing.

    OTOH, Russia AA loves shooting down civilian airliners and they’re going to be getting twitchy around airports now.