Ukraine’s battlefield-tested drone makers and Europe’s arms firms have sat down together for the first time to build drones and the systems to shoot drones down as a single industry. Eighteen companies, nine Ukrainian and nine European, held the opening meeting of the EU-Ukraine Drone Alliance in Brussels, Defender MediaContinue Reading
Russia is working methodically to modernize its attack drones on every possible front. This month, its drones are expected to carry 20-element anti-jam antennas in place of the 16-element ones, harder for Ukrainian electronic warfare to defeat, Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s defense-technology adviser, said. Russia’s knack for scalingContinue Reading
Russia is using AI-generated women to lure Ukrainian soldiers to their deaths. The fabricated profiles are one of three versions of a “honey trap” scheme Russia has escalated this year, and Ukraine’s military counterintelligence has foiled more than 50 such attempts in 2026, said Artem Dekhtiarenko, spokesperson for the SecurityContinue Reading
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