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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s surprise dismissal of his reformist defense minister has sent shockwaves through the country, causing unease and anxiety as Kyiv enjoyed a wave of fresh momentum on the battlefield.Ukrainian defense industry sources described the removal of 35-year-old Mykhailo Fedorov last week, after just six months on the…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has ignited an unprecedented uncrewed arms race, transforming what began as a brutal artillery war into a new mechanized nightmare of drones and robots that can hunt, strike, and kill.On a recent trip to the embattled country, Business Insider was granted inside access to the next…
Ukraine’s small drone teams keep beating NATO units in exercises, exposing an unsurprising experience gap.NATO is bringing Ukrainian units into exercises to help allied troops prepare for modern drone warfare. In those drills, Ukrainian teams have repeatedly beaten the allied forces they faced. A Ukrainian defense official and NATO officials…
In a future war, an enemy could attempt to target US bases with cyber attacks and drone strikes to cripple American forces before the fighting even really begins.It’s a challenge that the US Army recently assessed during a tabletop exercise, drawing inspiration from real-world action, including Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb attack…
The Russian threat is real, and it’s time for European defense companies to start copying Ukraine and break up production across multiple sites, a Ukrainian official and multiple defense firms told Business Insider.Russia’s drone and missile attacks are so widespread that weapons companies working in Ukraine typically can’t afford to…
To Spring, some of the new drones blunting Russia’s momentum first arrived so glitchy they were practically cursed.”In every sortie, everything that could go wrong went wrong,” the drone pilot, with the Ukrainian National Guard’s Typhoon unit, told Business Insider of the first system she tested in early 2025.The fixed-wing…
New satellite imagery captures an oil terminal burning and fire crews tending to a damaged warship near St. Petersburg after Ukrainian forces struck the city during the opening day of Russia’s Davos.The Ukrainian military said Wednesday that it carried out strikes on the St. Petersburg oil terminal, the nearby Kronstadt…
Ukraine is using a new kind of drone to turn areas that Russian forces once considered safe into a new “kill zone,” disrupting supplies, threatening its command posts, and making Moscow’s war harder to sustain.Drones have been central to Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion. Short-range first-person-view (FPV) drones surveil and…
