#Ukraine Military Forces

Cheap to build and deadly, First Person View (FPV) drones have become a fixture in this war, and the Pokrovsk frontline is no exception. For two brothers from Kherson—call signs “Stary” and “Google”—hunting Russian invaders is a family business.

Meet the newest unit in the 25th Separate Airborne Brigade—made up entirely of foreign volunteers whose sole focus is to engineer and pilot drones.

The “Khartiia” Brigade has been defending the village of Lyptsi in the Kharkiv Region of Ukraine for over ten days now. Even though Russia is saying that it has been captured, the village is entirely under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. 

Two years after the fall of Azovstal, the fate of hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners of war, including members of the Azov brigade, remains uncertain. Held by Russia in undisclosed locations, they are denied contact with families, exchanges, and access to international observers. Why?

On May 10th, Russian troops launched a new offensive in the Kharkiv region. However, rapid progress in the region did not happen; battles are ongoing in border areas, and the Russian forces have managed to advance only by 10 km.

Vadym Sukharevskyi stands at the forefront of a game changing initiative: establishing the Ukrainian military’s Unmanned Systems Forces, a branch with no global equivalent.