The ousted defense minister has found American capital for his procurement-and-data model while Kyiv's own export channel has issued no permits and charges 20% to 30% up front.
Six days of protests cost Zelensky both his commander-in-chief and his chief of the General Staff. The new command team carries Mykhailo Fedorov's reform agenda without Fedorov, who is still refusing to come back.
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.
Kyiv opened a grant contest for domestic humanoid robots, extending a ground-robot buildout on track to contract 25,000 uncrewed vehicles in the first half of 2026.
Ukraine's Defense AI Center A1 is embedding AI across the kill chain, including last-second drone guidance that survives Russian jamming, while a separate reform hands AI the call on which drones to buy.
Ukraine's defense ministry says a Brave1-backed interceptor automates 95% of a Shahed intercept, leaving the operator to pick the target and clear the shot.