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Ukraine Is the First “Hackers’ War”

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Rapid and resourceful technological improvisation has long been a mainstay of warfare, but the war in Ukraine is taking it to a new level. These were not FPV drones, for the most part. On 4 March, a Ukrainian soldier flew a drone at a testing site near the town of Kreminna in eastern Ukraine.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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Early on a June morning in 2023, my colleagues and I drove down a bumpy dirt road north of Kyiv in Ukraine. While we were in Ukraine, we also demonstrated our technology for the State Special Transportation Service , a branch of the Ukrainian military responsible for keeping roads and bridges open. All our hard work paid off.

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Volkswagen delays ID.5 launch in Germany due to part shortage from Ukraine

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5 by a month as a part needed from a Ukrainian supplier has not arrived because of supply disruptions. The shortage of the part, which is a wire harness, kept Volkswagen from producing enough exhibition and demonstration vehicles for its sales partners, according to a letter seen by German media outlet Automobilwoche.

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SpaceX Starlink lands DoD contract for Ukraine satellite services

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Department of Defense to buy services for Ukraine, according to the Pentagon. Starlink has played a crucial part in aiding Ukrainian troops for a number of things , including communications with other soldiers during its ongoing conflict with Russia. foreign aid agency to provide Ukraine with what it needs to effectively assist.

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Elon Musk has provided 12,000 Starlink dishes to Ukraine

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Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, said that Elon Musk’s Starlink dishes have become a crucial part of the country’s cyber war against Russia. He also stated that the terminals are crucial to Ukraine’s information war on social media against Russia. .

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Elon Musk’s Starlink has about 150k daily users in Ukraine, confirms official

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Roughly 150,000 people are using Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet system in Ukraine every day, according to Digital minister Mykhailo Fedorov. To date, Starlink has provided Ukraine with stable internet access despite Russia’s efforts to disconnect the country from the World Wide Web. .

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Puzzling Out the Drone War Over Ukraine

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Eight years later, the Russians are again invading Ukraine. These include the Eleron-3SV and the Orlan-10 drones, both of which have been used extensively in Syria and Ukraine. An Orion was credited with an airstrike on a command center in Ukraine in early March 2022. unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs).

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