Ukraine

The Ukraine drone war is where modern drone warfare is being invented — in public, at industrial scale, on both sides — and this desk has reported it since the beginning. How a century of unmanned flight led to this point is told in our history of drones guide.

The defining fact is volume. Attrition once ran at a reported 10,000 drones a month, which turned production speed into a weapon: Ukrainian makers now cut strike-drone wing build times from days to hours, and every FPV airframe is a candidate munition. Autonomy is advancing at the same pace — Ukraine’s Kolibri FPV flies 25 miles and finishes strikes alone.

The war does not stay inside the lines on the map. The Leipzig cargo-drone bomb reached Europe’s logistics system; drones circled Europe’s only Patriot repair base days later. The Russia desk tracks that campaign, and the counter-drone desk tracks the defenses being built against it.

And the brutality is part of the record: a Russian drone hunting a vegetable seller in Kherson is the video Zelensky says the world must see. We report what the technology does, including this. Every Ukraine drone story lands in the feed below.