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  • 2 days ago | politico.eu | Veronika Melkozerova

    KYIV — Russia is catching up to Ukraine in drone production thanks to greater financial resources, production lines far from the front lines and especially help from China, a senior Ukrainian official told POLITICO. “Chinese manufacturers provide them with hardware, electronics, navigation, optical and telemetry systems, engines, microcircuits, processor modules, antenna field systems, control boards, navigation.

  • 2 days ago | politico.eu | Veronika Melkozerova

    KYIV — Ukrainian security services on Wednesday released new video of the audacious "Spider Web" strikes on the Kremlin's nuclear-capable bombers deep inside Russia. “During the operation, modern UAV control technology was used, which combines autonomous artificial intelligence algorithms and manual operator intervention,” said the Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, the country’s main counterintelligence agency.

  • 4 days ago | politico.eu | Veronika Melkozerova

    KYIV — Ukrainian spies launched an underwater assault against the pillars of the Kerch Bridge connecting Russia’s mainland with Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow has illegally occupied since 2014. “The underwater supports of the piers were severely damaged at the sea bottom level — 1,100 kg of explosives in TNT equivalent contributed to this.

  • 4 days ago | politico.com | Robbie Gramer |Eric Bazail-Eimil |Veronika Melkozerova

    Congress’ patience with Moscow is wearing thin as Russian President Vladimir Putin slow-walks peace talks. | Pool photo by Alexey Nikolskiy With help from Felicia Schwartz, Diya Contractor, Jordain Carney, Nahal Toosi and Daniel LippmanSubscribe here | | There’s a major new threat to Russia’s already sanction-battered economy. It’s sitting in procedural limbo in the U.S. Senate — at least for now. Sens.

  • 4 days ago | politico.eu | Veronika Melkozerova

    KYIV — Ukraine and Russia agreed to prepare an all-for-all exchange for two categories of prisoners of war as the sides met for the second round of peace negotiations in Istanbul on Monday. “We agreed to exchange all of the severely injured and ill prisoners of war. We will also exchange all young soldiers, aged 18-25. We also agreed to swap 6,000 bodies of fallen soldiers,” Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, head of the Ukrainian delegation, told a press conference.

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