#Ukraine

Lithuania says Russian GPS spoofing is pushing Ukrainian drones off course into allied territory, adding a dangerous new cross-border layer to the war’s electronic warfare campaign.

Romania says a Russian drone crashed into an apartment block near the Ukrainian border, injuring a woman and a child and prompting a renewed NATO warning to Moscow.

Ukraine plans to buy 20 new Saab Gripen E fighters while Sweden moves to donate 16 older Gripen C/D aircraft sooner, creating a near-term stopgap and a longer-term fleet transition.

Sweden says Ukraine will acquire up to 20 Gripen E/F fighters and is set to receive 16 older Gripen C/D aircraft as bilateral assistance.

Ukraine says it aims to produce tens of thousands of unmanned ground vehicles this year as UGVs take on logistics, rescue, mine-laying, drone defense, and combat roles.

An Australian-Polaris partnership is preparing overhead armor kits for Ukrainian special operations vehicles as forces adapt to persistent threats from attack drones.

Kyiv is moving to channel battlefield-tested drone technology into exports and joint ventures with the United States, signaling a new phase for its defense industrial base after years of wartime restrictions.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved three measures aimed at speeding arms transfers, including support relevant to Taiwan and Ukraine, but blocked a broader proposal to let any country use Foreign Military Fi

Russia’s scaled-back Victory Day parade in Moscow was meant to project control, but defense analysts say the missing hardware and tighter security instead highlighted concern about Ukrainian strike capabilities and the压力

American investors and the Pentagon are showing growing interest in Ukrainian defense startups, but export-control delays are emerging as a major barrier to deeper collaboration.

Ukraine’s rapid expansion of unmanned ground vehicles is turning robots into a frontline logistics and evacuation tool, with systems now also being used to extract civilians from contested areas.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine will allow exports of domestically made weapons beyond state orders, a shift aimed at giving local manufacturers new capital while preserving priority for national forces.

President Donald Trump said he discussed a possible ceasefire in Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin, while the Kremlin said Putin proposed a temporary truce around May 9 commemorations.

Ukraine’s military intelligence service has published new information on Russia’s S-71K air-launched missile, describing a low-observable design that appears aimed at cheaper, more scalable standoff strike capacity.

New imagery of missile wreckage indicates Ukraine is fielding AIM-120C-8 AMRAAMs, a near-top-tier version of the weapon that can be used by both F-16 fighters and NASAMS air defense systems.

A prospective force to monitor any Ukraine ceasefire is running into a basic constraint: the troops, air defenses, and political attention needed for such a mission are being pulled toward a widening U.S. military effort

Ukraine says it used an unmanned surface vessel to launch an interceptor drone that destroyed a Shahed attack drone, signaling a novel blend of naval autonomy and air defense under wartime pressure

A Ukrainian robotics company is applying software-style remote updates to ground combat systems, underscoring how battlefield machines are starting to be maintained and improved more like connected devices than fixed-use

A failed safety test at Chernobyl on April 26, 1986 triggered one of history’s worst nuclear disasters and exposed how secrecy, design flaws, and operator error can turn a local accident into a continental crisis.

Navy leaders say Ukraine’s sea-drone success against Russia is a powerful case study, but the United States cannot simply transplant that model to the Pacific or the Red Sea.