CNN crew pursued by drones while reporting from Ukraine

CNN journalists were targeted and pursued by drones, facing direct physical danger while attempting to report from the conflict zone.

In the fields and roads of Ukraine, a CNN news crew found themselves not merely witnesses to modern warfare but subjects of it — pursued by drones while attempting to document a conflict that has redrawn the boundaries between observer and combatant. The incident arrives as allied assessments suggest Ukrainian forces have shifted the war's momentum, striking deep into Russian territory with an ingenuity born of necessity. It is a moment that asks an old question in a new form: in a war fought increasingly by machines, who remains safe enough to bear witness?

CNN crew pursued by drones while reporting from Ukraine

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