For the first time, two unmanned boats have fought a battle at sea, and the Ukrainian one sank its Russian rival. The Ukrainian Defense Intelligence has spotted a Russian drone in the Black Sea, and a Sargan-3000 naval drone armed with a remote-controlled machine-gun turret opened fire and destroyed it,Continue Reading
In the occupied town of Oleshky in Kherson Oblast, people are foraging for grass and picking through bombed-out basements for anything to eat, Natalia Soboleva, an Odesa volunteer who tracks the town, says, Espreso reports. The city turned 942 years old this week and marked the day, as it hasContinue Reading
A German environmental group is going to court to stop Russia’s state nuclear corporation from helping run a nuclear-fuel plant on German soil. BUND Niedersachsen has sued the state of Lower Saxony to overturn a July permit allowing the Lingen plant to produce Russian-designed fuel under a license from Rosatom,Continue Reading
The Ukrainian soldiers simultaneously perform defensive, logistical, and humanitarian functions. Ukraine’s Third Army Corps is launching a separate AB3.HUMANITARIAN initiative to evacuate civilians from frontline settlements. This means saving families, elderly people, children, people with disabilities, from Russian attacks, and those who often have no way to leave on theirContinue Reading
Ukraine’s former top general, now its ambassador to Britain, says Russia’s jet-powered Geran drone is a glimpse of where war is heading, where high technology keeps getting cheaper. Valerii Zaluzhnyi told a London defense-technology showcase that an expensive Cold War missile had evolved into a cheap weapon that can beContinue Reading
A Ukrainian ground robot that usually hauls ammunition and supplies to the front carried a different load out of it this time: wounded civilians. The 20th “K-2” Unmanned Systems Brigade sent the unmanned vehicle to evacuate people hurt when a Russian FPV drone struck their house, and its soldiers walkedContinue Reading
The US told Ukraine’s allies to prepare for a war lasting years at the latest Ramstein meeting, the forum where Kyiv’s partners decide the military aid it gets. Yurii Fedorenko, commander of the 429th “Achilles” Unmanned Systems Brigade, said that the message confirms there will be no “miraculous de-escalation” fromContinue Reading
Russia keeps striking the border crossings on Ukraine’s western frontier with NATO member Romania and with Moldova, far from any front line. It has hit at least five of them in Odesa Oblast since late August, killing two civilians at one, State Border Guard Service Spokesperson Andrii Demchenko said, accordingContinue Reading
Retreating Russian forces have mined the Oleksandrivka sector so heavily that only ground robots can move across parts of it, Serhii Kolesnychenko, a communications officer of the 148th Separate Zhytomyr Artillery Brigade of Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces, says, according to UkrInform. This direction lies on the junction of the Donetsk,Continue Reading
Ukraine’s newly shown Koral missile could become a home-built answer to the Patriot in addition to the “Freya” project. However, the system has yet to prove it can stop Russian ballistic missiles, Ivan Kyrychevsky, an arms expert at Defense Express and a soldier in the 413th REID regiment of theContinue Reading
Ukraine’s government has moved to restore an anti-corruption safeguard it had quietly weakened — the rule that requires banks to monitor the accounts of former senior officials. It has registered a new bill, No. 16051, that rewrites the provision, Deputy Olha Vasylevska-Smahliuk says, Ekonomichna Pravda reports. The new bill changesContinue Reading
Ukraine says it has found a way to shoot down Russia’s Banderol jet missiles for less than the missiles themselves cost. A system from a developer in the Brave1 defense-tech cluster has already destroyed at least four of them, Brave1 said, releasing video of the intercepts. The point is theContinue Reading
Ukraine’s drone forces say they struck 58,465 Russian targets in August, an average of nearly 1,900 a day. The tally is up almost 9 percent on July and more than double January’s, and it included 54 vessels of Russia’s shadow fleet, 33 air-defense systems, and 168 energy nodes, Unmanned SystemsContinue Reading