Ukraine’s military commander in charge of the country’s drone warfare program urged the US and NATO countries alike on Wednesday to learn from Kyiv’s use of the technology on the battlefield so in the future there are not “hard questions from your children [about] when [their] father will come back.

Russia's Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said its forces downed at least 70 Ukrainian drones overnight into Tuesday morning. Among the areas targeted was the southwestern Voronezh region, which borders northeastern Ukraine. At least 24 people were injured there, Gov. Aleksandr Gusev said on Telegram.

Ukrainian officials say Russia has fired more than 700 attack and decoy drones at Ukraine overnight. That tops previous nightly barrages for the third time in two weeks.

Unmanned vehicles dominate the battlefield in Ukraine—laying mines, delivering ammunition and medication, even evacuating casualties.

The SMASH 2000L fire control system is designed to track moving targets, and the Marines hope to use it against small drones.

Every euro invested in drones destroys Russian assets worth hundreds of times more.” This stark math, quoted by the Royal United Services Institute, now characterizes the brutal arithmetic of the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine is massively scaling up its production of low-cost interceptor drones to stop Russia's growing barrages of Shahed attack drones.

American fatigue with the war and the fickleness of the Trump administration remain concerns for Ukraine’s leaders.