On the building of the Children's and Youth Sailing Sports School No. 13, located on the territory of the yacht club, damage caused by falling debris from a downed Russian drone is visible. Odessa, southern Ukraine. Photo: Getty/Getty
Today on the Telegraph podcast “Ukraine: The Last” we bring you the latest news from the front, further analyze cooperation and CIA training of the Ukrainian security services, and interview Ukrainian activists who work with children. from liberated territories.
Deputy Defense Editor Dominic Nicholls continues the story of Russia diversifying its airborne munitions:
It appears that Russia is increasingly complementing its use of Shahed drones with a new, cheaper and lighter, domestically produced drone variant. mainly at the moment in their ongoing attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure.
According to the ISW (Institute for the Study of War), Russian troops are using the new long-range Italmas drone and its variants, first used on Monday over the Kiev region .
Italmas drones are lighter than Shahed and Shahed. therefore more difficult to detect and shoot down. Russian Milbloggers say that drones are cheaper so they can be produced more widely, but they obviously carry a slightly smaller payload, which limits their individual usefulness.
Continuing his analysis of these posts, Dom says: < /p >
ISW previously assessed that Russia is trying to expand and diversify its arsenal of drones, missiles, guided bombs and everything else ahead of winter.
These new Italmas drones are already part of a broader effort to diversify ammunition.
Next in the podcast, host David Knowles speaks with Artem Skorokhodko from the Ukrainian charity Behind Blue Eyes, which travels through liberated and front-line villages giving disposable film cameras to children to document their daily lives. Artem himself describes their mission:
There was a dilemma within us because we are creative people. We come from creative professions, creative industries, and we've had conversations [that show] that our skills and profession are becoming obsolete. People don't need creativity anymore. People need builders. People need fighters. People need professional skills.
I think that deep down we are always trying to prove ourselves. So, these two factors came together when we really connected with the local children in these villages that we visited over a long period of time, and our creative aspirations began to flourish because these children inspired us to turn on our creative thinking again.
We wanted to support their energy, because they had a lot of energy and they needed to spend it somewhere, and we just wanted to develop some kind of activity for them. We had an idea with cameras, disposable film cameras.
I thought it would be cool to give them this tool and see [the children's] point of view.
Artem explains how this project unintentionally helped children cope with trauma:
We thought it had some therapeutic effect that they had not talked too loudly about their traumatic experiences of war as we talked over these weeks.
But once they had these photographs in front of them, we sat down with them, brought the prints and went one by one with each child so that he or she could tell us why she took this photo, what is in this photo. , and so on. And they turned out to be much more ready to explain, like some kind of valve that allowed them to talk about this experience.
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