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RIGA, Latvia — The West would do well to make sure that its future drone units and command centers are mobile and ideally underground because they are such high-value targets, a Ukrainian defense official said.The West is investing heavily in drone warfare and tactics after seeing how effective they have…
Ukraine is aiming to inflict at least 200 Russian casualties for every square kilometer that Moscow captures on the battlefield. Gains have become increasingly costly for Russian forces in recent months. Loading audio narration… “Each kilometer of advance costs the enemy disproportionately high losses,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov recently…
For Ukrainian cities, the last two days have been a near-constant barrage of drones and missile strikes, culminating in Russia’s largest and most unrelenting long-range attack in the war so far. Loading audio narration… It’s another major episode in a new style of Russian drone warfare emerging in the last…
A company that has been helping US allies defend against Iranian drones said its technology wouldn’t be where it is now without its experience helping Ukraine stop Russian drone attacks. Loading audio narration… Robin Radar, a Dutch firm that makes drone detection radar systems, has had systems in Ukraine since…
Ukraine, once hugely reliant on Western support and expected to lose quickly to Russia’s invasion, is now pioneering new types of weaponry and building expertise in new ways of warfare that have its partners’ interest. Loading audio narration… From the start of the war to now, Ukraine has shifted from…
When they’re not flying real first-person-view drones, some Ukrainian pilots are training inside “Grand Theft Auto V.” Loading audio narration… Ukraine has often leveraged video games and simulators to train pilots, helping them build the hand-eye coordination needed for flying FPV drones. The crossover of skillsets has even made gamers…
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, has praised his soldiers in Kursk for choosing the “path of self-detonation” to avoid capture, confirming a practice that Ukraine said it observed in 2024. Loading audio narration… According to state media, Kim made the remarks on Monday during the completion ceremony of a…
Ukraine’s drone warfare branch said on Sunday that its troops destroyed a Russian Shahed by launching an interceptor drone from an uncrewed surface vessel for the first time. Loading audio narration… The Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) wrote in a post on X that the interception was carried out “for the…
Ukrainian forces have been substantially slowing Russia’s advance and are seeing fresh battlefield gains not achieved in years, warfare experts said. Loading audio narration… “The Ukrainians are gaining more ground,” George Barros, a conflict analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington DC-based think tank, told Business…
Ukrainian forces shot down Iranian Shahed drones in the Middle East, the country’s president said, as countries turn to Ukrainian expertise in counter-drone warfare. Loading audio narration… Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters this week that Ukrainian personnel have shot down drones in multiple countries as Ukraine looks to help…
