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![Anti-drone netting covers a supply route near Kostyantynivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, February 2026. Burned military vehicles are seen along the road amid ongoing Russian drone attacks. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Anti-drone netting covers a supply route near Kostyantynivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, February 2026. Burned military vehicles are seen along the road amid ongoing Russian drone attacks. (Source: Getty Images)")
![Warhead section of the R-60M missile from a downed Russian Geran-2 drone with radiation hazard marking.]( "Warhead section of the R-60M missile from a downed Russian Geran-2 drone with radiation hazard marking, April 2026. (Source: SBU)")
![Nevinnomyssk Azot factory.]( "Nevinnomyssk Azot factory. (Source: Russian media)")
![Special Operations Forces Selection, Ukraine Style]( "After I Jumped Into the Lake and Before I Got Punched—Special Operations Forces Selection, Ukraine Style")
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![Philip Malzahn]( "Philip Malzahn")
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- War in Ukraine
To become a Special Forces Operator in Ukraine, you first have to survive selection: six days and six nights of crawling, marching, exhaustion, and pain. I joined the process—twice—to look behind the curtain of one of the country's most secretive military units. I didn't pass (big surprise), but I came away with a deeper understanding of the people fighting in Russia's war against Ukraine.![Destroyed Russian tank.]( "Illustrative image. Destroyed Russian tank. (Source: UNITED24 Media/Oleksandr Manukians)")
![The aftermath of the Russian strike on the Nova Poshta depot in the Novobavarskyi district of Kharkiv, May 19, 2026. (Source: Nova Poshta/Telegram)]( "Russian Drones Strike Nova Poshta Depot in Kharkiv Three Times in One Day")
-d0688aba4982a6ed58cca70fa1601dc3.jpeg "After I Jumped Into the Lake and Before I Got Punched—Special Operations Forces Selection, Ukraine Style")
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