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Ukraine’s drone lessons for NATO

Ukraine’s drone lessons for NATO

  Writing in The Washington Post, Anna Husarska a close friend of ours, says: “My colleague Olga Shpak from the nongovernmental organization Assist Ukraine has drone experience because as a PhD in marine biology she often filmed orcas and other whales. She and I have discussed the utility of “setkomets” — nets dropped by drones to trap enemy attack drones, not unlike a net Nabokov might...

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The Ukrainian Bell Tolls… for Whom?

The Ukrainian Bell Tolls… for Whom?

Anna Husarska, a close friend of ours contributed an article on the importance of the Foreign Legion for solving Ukraine’s manpower shortage. While she does not mention directly Assist Ukraine, we visited together a stabilization point of the Foreign Legion which we know was what triggered her interest in the matter.
Her article was published by Project Syndicate and was picked up by many newspapers around the world. There is a free access via this link.

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The Cruel Human Cost of the ‘Land Swap’ Idea for Ukraine

The Cruel Human Cost of the ‘Land Swap’ Idea for Ukraine

Writing in The Washington Post, Anna Husarska, a close friend of ours, says: Since the full-scale Russian invasion, I have frequently traveled to the parts [of Donbas] still held by Ukraine, delivering medical supplies and cars alongside the humanitarian group Assist Ukraine. This week, I am making my 32nd car delivery. Here is the full text of her article:

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Aggressive First Person View Drone Technology Targets Both Military and Civilians

Aggressive First Person View Drone Technology Targets Both Military and Civilians

Aggressive First Person View Drone Technology Targets Both Military and Civilians FPV (First-Person View) drone technology has become a significant factor in modern warfare, emerging prominently in the ongoing Russian war against Ukraine. The Russian army is increasingly using FPV drones to target both military and civilian sites. In this recent piece by New Eastern Europe magazine, the...

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The Awful Costs of Tying Ukraine’s Hands in the War

The Awful Costs of Tying Ukraine’s Hands in the War

  Anna Husarska, a close friend of ours contributed an article to The Washington Post after she accompanied Assist Ukraine on a field trip. She writes: In Kharkiv, I drove to the cemetery and filmed some footage. There seem to be twice as many graves of killed soldiers as I saw there exactly a year ago. I started reading the names, dates of birth and death, calculating ages, looking at the...

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Assist Ukraine Director, Olga Shpak, Plays An Important Role in Dramatic Beluga Whale Rescue, The New York Times Reports

Assist Ukraine Director, Olga Shpak, Plays An Important Role in Dramatic Beluga Whale Rescue, The New York Times Reports

How Two Beluga Whales Made It to Safety From Ukraine A pair of whales were extricated from the besieged city of Kharkiv and taken to an aquarium in Spain with help from experts around the world. By Marc Santora and Emily Anthes It was a whale of an evacuation. Actually, two. In what experts said was among the most complex marine mammal rescue ever undertaken, the pair of beluga whales were...

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On Ukraine’s Front Lines, Frustration and Determination

On Ukraine’s Front Lines, Frustration and Determination

  Writing in The Washington Post, Anna Husarska, a close friend of ours, says: Standing on the city’s empty Freedom Square, my friend Olga Shpak — a volunteer with Assist Ukraine — and I were weighing what the possible scenarios mean for Ukraine. [...] Over the next few days, I traveled north of Kharkiv toward the Russian border, south to Kramatorsk and Kostiantynivka and then to Kyiv,...

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Ukraine: The Latest | The Telegraph

Assist Ukraine Director Olga Shpak and our friend, journalist Anna Husarska have recently been interviewed by The Telegraph, one of the major UK newspapers for their podcast Ukraine: the Latest. The conversation with Olga and Anna about Assist Ukraine starts at 47:22. Click here to listen to the Youtube Podcast.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES GUEST ESSAY

Have Gear, Will Deliver: Why I Carry Supplies to Ukrainian Troops (excerpts)By Anna Husarska, a journalist and political analyst Kharkiv (Ukraine) This past summer, Britain’s defense minister at the time, Ben Wallace, chided Ukraine for not showing enough gratitude for the West’s weapons supplies. “We’re not Amazon,” he said. No, but there is a kind of Amazon for the Ukrainian military, in...

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POLITICO MAGAZINE: Ukraine Needs More Than Just Weapons to Win. That’s Where I Come In.

I drive donated equipment to Ukraine’s frontlines. Here’s a photo diary of my deliveries. When Vladimir Putin’s Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, I was a long way away, scuba diving in Madagascar. Having decided to stop reporting on conflicts, I was writing a book on Cuba. But when the war broke out next door to my native Poland, I was overwhelmed by the scale of the monstrosity and...

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