The Bulava unit is part of Ukraine’s Presidential Brigade, which also performs ceremonial guard duties in Kyiv but mostly became a regular combat brigade after the 2022 invasion. Ignatukha and his men saw the war changing and got into drone technology, using their own salaries to buy equipment and build their skills.

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The long-range Russian drones come in swarms each night, buzzing over Ukraine by the hundreds, terrorizing the population and attacking targets from the industrial east to areas near its western border with Poland.

How are drones used in the conflict? Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become the main weapon of the war in Ukraine—a bloody, high-tech clash that is seen as a harbinger of conflicts to come. While artillery battles once defined the war,

At least six people have died after Vladimir Putin's forces hit a high rise building and a shopping centre in Dnipropetrovsk while a Ukraine drone struck a Signal plant in Russia

Ukraine's Brave1 hopes all of its infantry will eventually carry its new anti-drone rifle rounds, designed to fire from NATO-issued rifles.

Ukraine has reached an agreement with Denmark to launch a joint production line for long-range drones, while negotiations with the United States are also ongoing, says President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a media briefing on July 24.

Drone technology has been used extensively in twenty-first-century armed conflict, but the Russia-Ukraine war is driving innovations in autonomous warfare not seen on other battlefields.

Western defense companies are increasingly establishing new presences in Ukraine and working directly with Ukrainian companies.