Olena Mukhina

A Ukrainian defense company has built a single device that finds an FPV drone, reads its video feed, and jams it. Rebel Group has developed Brama, a stationary electronic warfare and reconnaissance system to counter FPV drones, which it plans to codify for use by the Defense Forces, the company’sContinue Reading

More than half the drones Russia fired at Ukraine over the past four days were jet-powered, and Kyiv was the main target. Of the more than 1,500 drones launched, about 800 were jet-powered, Colonel Yurii Ihnat, head of the communications department of Ukraine’s Air Force Command, said, UNIAN reports. AContinue Reading

A Ukrainian maker known for ground robots has built a flying attack drone. Ratel Robotics has unveiled the Ratel K1, a strike FPV drone for ground targets with a tactical range of up to 30 kilometers, according to Defender Media. The K1 will likely join the number of weapons thatContinue Reading

The Ukrainian military is completing work on new aviation developments. They are essentially finished and already in testing, and the aircraft carrying them will enter combat, aviation commander Colonel Oleksandr Diakiv said in an Air Force Command segment. Ukraine has already done with jets built decades ago. Its crews turnedContinue Reading

A Russian strike on southern Odesa Oblast killed one person overnight and set grain trucks on fire. Five trucks loaded with grain were destroyed and three more damaged, with one person killed and three injured, the head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, Oleh Kiper, said. The strike hit theContinue Reading

Poland’s prime minister says the next seven or eight months could decide the region’s security. Donald Tusk said there are signs of serious Russian preparations to escalate tensions, both in the war against Ukraine and across the region, according to Ukrinform. Tusk’s warning follows weeks of similar alarms from theContinue Reading

Ukraine’s new defense minister wears his war on his wrist. Yevhenii Khmara’s bracelet carries, on each of its chains, the engraved name of a comrade who did not come back from the war, The National Interest reported. Khmara took over the Defense Ministry on 19 August, replacing Mykhailo Fedorov, whoseContinue Reading

Russia is looking for its next foreign recruits in Indonesia, Kyiv says. Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service reports that it has obtained documents on at least eight Indonesian citizens recruited into the Russian occupation army. Russia has recruited at least 27,000 foreign nationals from more than 130 countries since February 2022,Continue Reading

Ukraine’s drone interceptors work until the weather turns. On 28 July, Presidential advisor Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov wrote that fog and cloud in fall, winter, and spring can leave an interceptor pilot unable to see more than a dozen meters, and that success rates fall as soon as winter begins, aContinue Reading

China is helping Russia build a faster Shahed. Russia has begun using upgraded Shahed drones with Chinese-made turbojet engines that fly at speeds close to three times those of earlier versions, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Shahed jet is designed to beat Ukraine’s air defenses. Ukrainian interceptors have downedContinue Reading

Ukraine has drawn up a list of those who build Russia’s ballistic missiles and wants all of them sanctioned by its allies. Kyiv is asking partners to impose sanctions on more than 100 Russian ballistics producers, presidential sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said at a press conference in Kyiv, according toContinue Reading

Ukraine is turning ordinary cars into robots instead of building them from scratch. Three units of the Armed Forces received the Kaban remote-control system, which converts vehicles into uncrewed ones, developer Drone Fight Group told Defender Media. Ground robots have become a daily part of Ukraine’s front. Ukrainian units ranContinue Reading