In this Ukrainian city, every step outside risks death by drone
by Andrew E. Kramer · Australian Financial ReviewAndrew E. Kramer
Feb 3, 2026 – 5.00am
It is pick-up time at the day care. As other children and parents mill about, Tanya Leshchenko sits on a bench in a hallway and bundles her five-year-old daughter into a purple winter coat. But before stepping outside, one more task remains.
Leshchenko checks an online chat group for warnings of incoming attack drones. The group posts crowdsourced alerts in the city of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, where the daily risk of death from flying robots offers a vision of an eerie, post-apocalyptic future.
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