The choice today is whether Ukraine becomes a defence technology hub, or remains a testing ground where innovations are proven before being scaled up and sold abroad.
A swift defeat of the Iranian regime and a demonstration of Russia’s inability to aid yet another ally — following the collapse of Bashar Assad and Nicolas Maduro — is in Ukraine’s interest.
Russia is scaling its unmanned systems to the level of a separate branch of service — 165,000 personnel, new regiments in every military district, and fibre-optic drones. We examine how the aggressor is preparing for an offensive campaign.
In 2026, the enemy will be able to launch air strikes with two to three hundred UAVs per night, deploy six to nine hundred in massive strikes, and make two to three attempts to overload our air defence with super-attacks throughout the year…
Over the course of the full-scale war, the enemy fleet has lost 29% of its capability to conduct missile strikes against land targets and 54% of its amphibious assault capability. On the Ukrainian side, zero ships were employed.
Thanks to the efforts of energy and heating companies, Ukraine got through the winter of 2024–2025 without any serious blackouts, but the winter of 2026 will be extremely difficult.
In the new world of war, where the sky above the tactical zone belongs to drones, victory is determined not only by strength, but also by the skill of those who control the winged hunters.
Velykyy Burluk lies at the center of a triangle (Vovchansk–Dvorichna–Milove), where enemy activity has intensified amid lingering trauma from its 2022 Kharkiv–Izyum defeat.
Three Russian armies are fighting for Pokrovsk, two for Kupyansk. And it's not working. Near Sumy, which is far from Pokrovsk, there are up to two divisions, which is not even an army.
On 1 June, the SBU conducted a successful special operation of enormous scale and complexity, targeting a key component of Russia’s nuclear triad – its strategic aviation – at home airfields.