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
Ukraine’s anti-corruption investigators say a senior official in the Office of the Prosecutor General set up and ran a criminal organization from within the office. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) said in a statement on 5 September that the group took bribes toContinue Reading
A Ukrainian National Guard unit says it destroyed one of Russia’s rarer electronic-warfare stations, 55 kilometers behind the front. Lasar’s Group said its own bomber drones hunted down an R-330Zh Zhitel jamming station near Sievierodonetsk in mid-summer, in a statement on its Telegram channel. The Zhitel is worth the effort.Continue Reading
A Ukrainian soldier in a trench or in a vehicle can now get a short alert on their phone the moment a Russian FPV drone or glide bomb starts closing in. The system behind it, Hrafit (Graphite), pulls together data from nearly all available radio-technical intelligence and surveillance into aContinue Reading
Russia has been bolting small FPV attack drones to the wings of its long-range Gerans and releasing them deep inside Ukraine, far behind the front. The tactic may now have reached Kyiv Oblast, where an FPV drone was recently recorded, though it is not confirmed that a Geran delivered it,Continue Reading
Twenty Ukrainian companies are now building jet-powered interceptors to down Russia’s increasingly fast jet-powered drones. One of them, the Ukrainian-British startup Firebolt Engineering, already has an interceptor flying combat missions with two Air Force units and Ukraine’s special operations forces, Defender Media reports. Russia launched more than 2,500 jet-powered dronesContinue Reading
Air-raid alerts covered a record share of working hours at shopping centers across Ukraine in August. Sirens ran for 21.8 percent of the hours malls were open, the Ukrainian Council of Shopping Centers reported. For more than a fifth of the hours malls were open to serve customers, sirens insteadContinue Reading
Russian losses reached one of the highest of the entire full-scale war in August, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry says, citing General Staff data. Last month, Ukraine killed or wounded 42,020 invaders. As its frontline losses climb, Russia is escalating its terror against Ukraine’s civilians. Moscow uses large numbers of ballistic missilesContinue Reading
On 1 September — the day Ukraine marks Knowledge Day, when schoolchildren and students are meant to begin the new academic year — Russia launched a massive attack on Kyiv and its region with ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones. Moscow used different types of its fast, deadly weapons, including ship-launchedContinue Reading
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