MOSCOW, RUSSIA – 2022/09/23: A truck blocks the highway from the Russian city of Samara to the Kazakh city of Oral. A traffic jam formed near the border crossing checkpoint. Stuck in their cars for days, truck drivers started blocking passage for light vehicles that attempted to cross the border around the queue. Some people…
Colonel Pavlo Yelizarov, Commander of Lasar’s Group and former TV show producer. Photo by Anton Zabielskyi, for Forbes Ukraine, 2025. Anton Zabielskyi The exclusive story of how Pavlo Yelizarov went from TV talk-show producer to the creator of Ukraine’s premier military drone unit. This article was published in Forbes Ukraine magazine No. 4 [37] in…
A PDW C100 heavy quadcopter drone with payload strapped underneath. Photo courtesy of Performance Drone Works The C100 heavy quadcopter drone is making the interservice leap from the Army to the Air Force—specifically, the latter service’s 93rd Air Ground Operations Wing which issued a contract for C100s according to a statement by Alabama-based manufacturer Performance…
Image capture from a video released on social media showing the feeds from a swarm of Ukrainian drones striking a Russian fuel train in Zaporizhzhia. The video was posted on August 20, 2025. Social Media Capture Since early summer, Ukraine has been carrying out a series of drone strikes against targets deep inside Russian territory….
Autonomous speedboat designer Saronic aims to use its fat warchest to build America’s largest shipyard and help the US to once again dominate commercial and military shipbuilding. Ona muggy August morning in the sugar cane fields of Franklin, Louisiana, a group of executives from Saronic’s Austin headquarters stood sweating in blazers. Alongside them: local politicians…
GDANSK, POLAND – 2025/09/28: A protester holds a placard expressing her opinion during the demonstration. (Photo by Agnieszka Pazdykiewicz/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Dispatches from Ukraine. Day 1,315. U.S. Weighs Supplying Ukraine with Long-Range Tomahawk Missiles The U.S. is reportedly considering Ukraine’s request for long-range Tomahawk missiles, a move that…
KOSTIANTYNIVKA, UKRAINE – SEPTEMBER 4: Ukrainian emergency service workers evacuate civilians from Kostiantynivka, where russian attacks have intensified over the past week, in Kostiatnynivka, Ukraine on September 4, 2025. (Photo by Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images) Anadolu via Getty Images Dispatches from Ukraine. Day 1,289. Russia’s Attack on Ukraine On September 3, Ukraine reported…