His iPad shows fields of black and green surrounding Bakhmut. As far as the drone’s electric eye can see, everything up to the horizon is a giant moonscape of black impact holes.

Time and again, new plumes of smoke rise up in the field from fresh impacts.

“Our godawful Starlink just isn’t working the way it should,” the specialist says as he angrily digs into his laptop.

“How am I supposed to work when the internet is so damn slow?”

As simple as that, the Ukrainian military shares the picture from drones with other units via link-only live streams on YouTube.