EditorialValentyn Kostiyanov, a technician who has worked at Antonov for more than 50 years and helped build the Mriya, at an airfield outside Kyiv, Ukraine on March 9, 2023. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)
EditorialValentyn Lapotkov, third from right, paid more than $500 for an empty missile tube during a charity auction in Lviv, Ukraine, on July 24, 2022. (Diego Ibarra Sanchez/The New York Times)