Bohdan, a drone pilot from the Unmanned Systems Battalion of Ukraine’s 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade, pilots an FPV drone in Donetsk Oblast during active battle operations. Photo: David Kirichenko
Russia expected an easy victory in Ukraine when Moscow launched its invasion in February 2022.
What it didn’t anticipate was that its army would become bogged down in years of grinding warfare, suffering over a million casualties by 2025.
Today, the war has evolved into a technological contest, with both sides constantly tinkering and seeking every advantage to overcome the other. For Kyiv, traditional methods of warfare had to be reimagined to confront a far larger adversary.
From the very first days of the invasion, Ukrainians began experimenting with all kinds of solutions to fight back. Many rushed to improve reconnaissance operations and started modifying off-the-shelf drones—devices once used by hobbyists before the war. Ukraine has now built entire procurement processes around unmanned systems and rebuilt its military acquisition system around commercial technologies. Ideas can be operational within months, instead of years.
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