Morning Jolt: The Ukrainian Anti-Drone Rooftop Party with Machine Guns

On the menu today: Readers, I knew that this journey to Ukraine would take me to some strange and unexpected places. Today, for the first time, I cannot disclose the exact location of where I was, and that's not just because I often get lost. It's because there's something extraordinarily cool up there, and the deal was that in exchange for reporting about it, I wouldn't reveal where it was.

Drone HuntersAn undisclosed location somewhere in Kyiv, Ukraine — This is the first edition of the newsletter in which I cannot tell you exactly where I’m reporting from, because the Ukrainian government and my hosts would prefer that I not reveal which building's roof has one of six anti-drone stations around the city, where one of the machine guns that dates from World War II is manned by a Supreme Court judge.

That is not a typo, and I did not have a stroke.

The first thing you should know is that Ukraine has roughly 160 Supreme Court judges, split into criminal, civil, administrative, and commercial or arbitration chambers. So a Supreme ...

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WITH JIM GERAGHTY August 30 2023
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WITH JIM GERAGHTY August 30 2023
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The Ukrainian Anti-Drone Rooftop Party with Machine Guns

On the menu today: Readers, I knew that this journey to Ukraine would take me to some strange and unexpected places. Today, for the first time, I cannot disclose the exact location of where I was, and that's not just because I often get lost. It's because there's something extraordinarily cool up there, and the deal was that in exchange for reporting about it, I wouldn't reveal where it was.

Drone HuntersAn undisclosed location somewhere in Kyiv, Ukraine — This is the first edition of the newsletter in which I cannot tell you exactly where I’m reporting from, because the Ukrainian government and my hosts would prefer that I not reveal which building's roof has one of six anti-drone stations around the city, where one of the machine guns that dates from World War II is manned by a Supreme Court judge.

That is not a typo, and I did not have a stroke.

The first thing you should know is that Ukraine has roughly 160 Supreme Court judges, split into criminal, civil, administrative, and commercial or arbitration chambers. So a Supreme ...   READ MORE

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