Fedorov stripped vendor selection from Ukraine's General Staff and ranked suppliers on combat data. Zelenskyy removed him on July 15 after the commander-in-chief objected, and the succession has already changed twice.
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Ukraine's 33rd Regiment clears a Russian position with two gun robots and three drones
A fully unmanned combined-arms assault near Dobropillya, run with $30,000 machine-gun robots and workshop-armed drones, moves robot-led attacks toward routine Ukrainian practice.
Ukraine · Autonomy · DevDroid
Shield AI's Hivemind flies its first live electronic warfare test on an L3Harris drone
A US Army-supported flight on July 16 put autonomous spectrum warfare in the air for the first time, pairing a prime's jamming stack with the AI pilot slated to fly the X-BAT fighter.
USA · Electronic Warfare · l3harris
Ukraine's naval drones hit 12 shadow-fleet ships in one night
Operation MoLoChKa has struck 159 Russian vessels since July 6, Moscow is putting soldiers on tanker decks, and European wheat just hit a 17-month high.
Ukraine · Russia · Naval
Ratcliffe puts Russian battlefield survival at 20 to 30 minutes, citing open-source reporting
The CIA director's figure lands as Washington weighs new money for Ukraine's drone programs, and its trail runs back to Russian Telegram channels rather than to independent US collection.
Ukraine · Autonomy · CIA
Tesseract's NOMAD container advances in DIU's two-crew drone fleet project
A Kansas City-launched firm cleared a gate in the Pentagon's search for a container that launches, recovers and refits drone fleets with a crew of two, the bottleneck sitting between the Army's million-drone plan and the air.
USA · Autonomy · Tesseract Ventures
Ukrainian drones strike Engels-2, Russia's strategic bomber base, 600 km behind the front
A reported fire at the home base of Russia's Tu-95 and Tu-160 fleets, and attack footage showing an unfamiliar V-tail airframe, put Ukraine's deep-strike campaign back on its highest-value target set.
Russia · Ukraine · drones
A fully unmanned combined-arms assault near Dobropillya, run with $30,000 machine-gun robots and workshop-armed drones, moves robot-led attacks toward routine Ukrainian practice.
Operation MoLoChKa has struck 159 Russian vessels since July 6, Moscow is putting soldiers on tanker decks, and European wheat just hit a 17-month high.
The CIA director's figure lands as Washington weighs new money for Ukraine's drone programs, and its trail runs back to Russian Telegram channels rather than to independent US collection.
The first live missile shot from a US robotic wingman came ten months after first flight and ran on Anduril's own Lattice software, in the middle of a three-way autonomy contest the Air Force decides by summer 2027.
Ten nations adopted Fire Point's FREYJA as Europe's anti-ballistic program, France licensed Aster and SCALP production inside Ukraine, and five companies signed on to build the layer above it. The air-defense pipeline just reversed direction.
Russia suspended shipping across the Sea of Azov after Ukrainian drones hit 105 vessels in eight days. The blockade was imposed without a single major warship, and the bill is landing on wheat, fuel and the shadow fleet.
Russia can't bomb the factories arming Ukraine, so it targets the will behind them: a 50,000-account bot network, Kremlin money in the AfD, and Germans recruited to spy and set fires.
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