At a pipe plant in Nikopol, a city across the Dnipro River and less than five miles from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which Russia controls, I asked a crane operator, Yevhen Bilousov, when he thought the war might end. The factory was ringed with antidrone nets, its windows covered by metal sheets perforated by shrapnel holes, but the work carried on. The question itself was meaningless, he told me, “because everything depends not on when but on how the war ends.”

 When will the War in Ukraine End?

The Question is Meaningless

By Nataliya Gumenyuk

Ms. Gumenyuk is a Ukrainian journalist who is writing a book about drone warfare. She wrote from Kyiv.

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