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"We try anything that can kill more Russians." New Ukraine AI drones require just 30-min training

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Military tech

“Wow, send us another”: the battery tech Ukrainian troops are raving about

Ukrainian drone power supply manufacturer Pawell Power says they've discovered a way to increase battery efficiency by 77% without sacrificing room for the part that goes boom. Read the interview with the company founder here.

byIgor Kossov

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Military tech

Ukraine’s army breaks own R&D rules to stay alive

Grassroots innovation has been one of Ukraine’s assets in the drone war against Russia. But failure to build on it is holding the country back.

byIgor Kossov

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Latest news Ukraine

Australia is spending billions on drones — Ukraine says it can make that money count

Kyiv offers drone tech and battlefield expertise to Australia, and touts its Magura naval drones, credited with sinking Russian ships and downing Russian jets, as a model for future cooperation.

byYuri Zoria

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhnyi waits before a meeting with US Defense Secretary and other officials in Kiev on October 19, 2021. (Photo by GLEB GARANICH / POOL / AFP) (Photo by GLEB GARANICH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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Latest news Ukraine

Zaluzhnyi warns: mass UAV warfare has made traditional battle impossible

Ukraine’s former military chief reveals how UAVs broke hundred years of warfare, and what must happen next to avoid catastrophe.

byTaisiia Vivdych

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia, Belarus again tried to attack Poland while border remains closed

Interior Minister Kamiński describes the border situation as "very tense."

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Poland plans to triple defense budget to record $55 billion, while learning drone defense from Ukraine

Warsaw also urges NATO allies to reach 5% GDP defense spending by 2030.

byOlena Mukhina

New Ukraine's long-range UAVs. Open-source photo

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Latest news Ukraine

New Ukraine’s kamikaze UAVs are ready to push defenses deeper behind lines

Ukraine has completed final trials of strike UAVs with a range exceeding 40 km that can overcome electronic warfare systems.

byTaisiia Vivdych

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hands over the first batch of long-range Peklo missile drones to the Ukrainian military in Kyiv on December 6, 2024. Source: Getty Images

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Latest news Ukraine

New mega-deal on horizon: Germany to invest €300 million in Ukraine’s “deep strike” drones

Berlin bets on Ukrainian drones. The €300 million “deep strike” initiative to scale UAV production and reshape Europe’s security landscape

byTaisiia Vivdych

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Latest news Ukraine

Locals watch Lithuanian coast guard chasing Russian marine drone launched from Kaliningrad

Coast guard chases the drone near Nida as Lithuania accelerates defense spending amid mounting Russian provocations.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia once again finds way to evade Ukraine’s smartest defenses against its deadliest drones

Russia has adapted again, forcing defenders into a new phase of drone warfare.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

“Five in one trench, while enemy storming from three sides”: Ukrainian machine gunner survives deadly battle near Pokrovsk

Roman “Peugeot” and his unit survived a Russian assault in Donetsk Oblast.

byOlena Mukhina

North Korean rocket launchers in Ukraine

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Latest news Ukraine

With single FPV drone strike, Ukraine is blowing up North Korea’s outdated rocket launchers before they ever get chance to fire

Ukrainian drone operators are turning the battlefield into a scrapyard.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

“Everyone who wanted to fight is already fighting”: Top Ukrainian UAV commander prepares for war with drones, not people

The full-scale war in Ukraine will continue beyond 2025, said Robert Brovdi, also known as Madiar, the commander…

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia’s drones now target civilians with napalm firebombs that burn through sand and cannot be extinguished

Modified drones are designed for maximum civilian terror and violate all rules of urban warfare, says a Ukrainian military expert.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukrainian soldiers break the spell: Russian wands, invisibility cloaks fail on Lyman front

From black plastic “invisibility coats” to fear-fueled mind games, Russia is betting on battlefield magic. Ukrainian defenders, grounded in reality, are tearing the illusion apart.

byOlena Mukhina

Magura V5 naval drone in the sea. Screenshot: Euronews

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukraine’s unmanned Magura vessels rewrite naval warfare’s rules —and down Russian jets

With two Su-30s destroyed in a single day, global militaries need to race to adapt to a battlefield no longer ruled by carriers, but by unmanned boats.

byOlena Mukhina

First-ever Ukrainian drone reaches Russia's Chuvashia, hits oil depot 970km from border

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Latest news Ukraine

New “spotter” specialists join Ukraine’s drone combat teams after two-week training

This represents a significant evolution in Ukraine's military structure, bridging the gap between explosives expertise and aerial operations while allowing pilots to focus exclusively on flight control.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukrainian border guards down 300 Russian drones as Moscow probes border weak points

Russian forces are seeking vulnerable points along Ukraine's 1,974-kilometer border to launch drone strikes deeper into territory, while deploying decoys to overwhelm air defenses.

byOlena Mukhina

Forbes: Russia promises soldiers 10-day leave for capturing Ukrainian "Baba Yaga" drones it can't build

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukraine hits peak strike rate on Russia as drone output tops 1.5 million

Ukraine's domestic drone industry reaches 96% of military UAV supply, enabling record strikes on Russian territory as production targets expand to 30,000 long-range units for 2025.

byOlena Mukhina

Russia hits Kharkiv with new Molniya drones in combat test on civilians

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia fills Molniya attack unmanned aerial vehicles with shrapnel to maximize Ukrainian civilian casualties

Russian forces modify Molniya drones with shrapnel and ammunition for maximum civilian impact, requiring expanded electronic warfare defenses.

byOlena Mukhina