‘We’re only a few months – perhaps years at most ­– away from the first political assassination by a drone’. That was the chilling verdict delivered by Francis Dearnley on this week’s episode of The Edition podcast from The Spectator.

The host of the award-winning Ukraine: The Latest podcast was speaking as Russia’s war in Ukraine reached a grim milestone: it has now gone on longer than the first world war. That Ukraine has been able to fiercely resist Russia for so long is due, in no small part, to advances in drone technology.

‘Ukraine is the cutting-edge drone superpower in the world’,........

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