The Ukrainians want it. The Americans are working to give it. But the decision to send a powerful unmanned drone to Kyiv’s forces is delayed over a nagging fear: What happens if the sensitive technologies aboard the aircraft end up in Russia’s hands?
"I'd say that the ground-based air defense was the key in this war, and it's still the key [moving forward],” said a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter squadron commander who goes by the callsign “Moonfish.”