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A drone came down beside a Bundeswehr air base, weeks after Berlin blamed Moscow for the Leipzig airport attack
The drone's owner and origin are still unknown, and investigators are collecting further parts before saying anything about how it came down.
In April, 24 Ukrainian companies ran their own air defense. By mid-September, 81 do — about one new firm per day
They've already downed 20-plus Russian drones.
For first time, Ukraine’s drone makers and Europe’s arms firms have joined one body: EU-Ukraine Drone Alliance
Eighteen companies aim to build drones and counter-drone systems together, folding Ukraine's combat-tested industry into Europe's.
Ai-Petri’s maker began building EW gear after Russia took Crimea in 2014. It’s now shown system, named for peninsula’s highest peak, at Polish expo
It is already deployed in some 400 units along the front.
Ukrainian engine for Bars missile-drone passes final tests
This is the last major imported component of the jet-powered drone used for deep strikes against Russia.
Second drone brigade in two months: Ukraine is forming the 446th Unmanned Systems Brigade
It is the second brigade of this level stood up in 2026, following the 445th, and recruitment is already underway, per unofficial sources.
“In intercepts, they’re screaming”: Russia occupied this spit to control Ukraine’s ports. Military says it has now isolated 2,500-strong grouping and destroyed all its artillery
Drone strikes and remote mining have cut supply, the Ukrainian soldiers say.
Ukraine dismissed its defense minister in July. He is now advising NATO country on defense innovation
Guido Crozetto called the dismissed Ukrainian minister the day after Kyiv let him go.
Russia is secretly building a mortar-launched drone-killer—and a resistance group just leaked the blueprints
Leaked documents describe a swept-wing drone built to hunt other drones at up to 300 km/h. Russian firm NIK allegedly cooperated with Boeing.
Ukraine has wrecked more than 100,000 Russian vehicles by hitting the roads, and this new drone is built exactly for that job
The fixed-wing Baton is built to cut Russian supply lines, according to the association that showed it.
Ukrainian drone maker is pitching its new five-inch strike FPV as assault squad’s mortar
F-Drones says its F5 carries a kilogram, fits several to a rucksack, and flies six kilometers on fiber.
Ukraine destroys depot that occupiers filled with generators, after Russian state TV filmed them
Russian propagandists inadvertently filmed the target themselves.
Four times pixels of anything before it: Ukrainian firm’s rare thermal camera aims to see targets from much farther away
Ukrainian company Oko Camera is developing the Oko HD thermal camera.
Ukraine’s top military marketplace has processed $235 million in orders. Now it goes further, letting units spec a custom drone across 17 characteristics
Ukraine's Brave1 Market added a tool letting military units order custom drones built to their own specifications.
More than 100 drones detected near Romania in four days, NATO jets scrambled seven times
The latest figures underscore how Russia’s drone war is increasingly reaching NATO’s eastern flank, with Romania already forced to destroy several drones this summer.
Armor can barely reach Ukraine’s front now—so robots drive and soldiers walk
Ukraine's frontline logistics are under strain from drone pressure, forcing soldiers to walk while ground robots take over the most dangerous runs.
They find a sword, we find a shield: Ukrainian soldier on why drones will never replace infantry
He went from mortarman to drone operator — and says neither role can absorb the other.
A $300 FPV downs a $20,000 bomber drone. Ukraine tests an EW shield for it
Kyiv is testing a new electronic-warfare system designed to stop cheap Russian FPV drones from destroying expensive Ukrainian heavy bombers.
From builder to the eyes of Ukraine’s front: the soldier with the callsign Dancer who went from Soviet launchers to drones
When Russia's full-scale invasion began on 24 February 2022, Fedir was 22 and responsible for the generators that kept a Soviet S-300 battery firing. Now he is flying drones on the zero line, the point of closest contact with Russian forces.