Guns, Drones, and a One-Eyed Cat: With the 'Gypsy Artillery' at War

by Jonathan Stumpf Life with a frontline mortar crew, where an old Soviet weapon fires from the countryside as the war in Ukraine moves toward Chasiv Yar. “Tri, dva, simdesyat,” crackles over the radio. “Tri, dva, sim, nol,” I repeat as I lay the old Soviet 120mm mortar onto the new target