Commentary: Kyiv’s answer to Putin’s drones is resistance and resilience
Vitalii Lylyck, 21, was shaken but smiling when I reached him in his dorm room in Kyiv, just 10 days after Russian forces began sending low-flying drones to destroy infrastructure and terrorize Ukrainians far from the front lines. I had hoped to meet with him in person that week, but when the drones started flying he discouraged me from traveling to Kyiv so I remained in Poland and we spoke by Zoom instead.
He was wearing two coats but was still, as he put it, “chilled to the bone.” The dorm had had no heat for days, and although there
