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Meet the Ukrainian drone unit known as 'Peaky Blinders'

Max Zander
May 28, 2024

Ukrainian soldiers are trying to hold back or at least slow a Russian incursion near Kharkiv. DW's Max Zander went to the front lines to see how they're doing it.

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