Topic: Artificial intelligence
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NATO-Ukraine centre presents two AI models for drone forecasting and artillery planning
The NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training and Education Centre (JATEC) presented two AI tools — "Model No. 13" for forecasting enemy drone use and "Model No. 32" for automated artillery operation planning — during a three-day seminar in Vilnius. Both were jointly developed by NATO's Allied Command Transformation and the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with "Model No. 13" reported as ready for integration into Ukrainian situational awareness systems and a prototype of "Model No. 32" transferred to Ukrainian customers for testing.
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Petraeus: Ukraine is the "real laboratory" of future warfare, NATO needs revolutionary change
Former CIA Director retired General David Petraeus said at the Warsaw Security Forum that the war in Ukraine is the real laboratory of future warfare and that NATO countries must carry out urgent, revolutionary institutional military changes. He said these must go beyond handing drones to existing units, and should touch doctrine, training, procurement, personnel policy and infrastructure, while predicting a shift toward autonomous and AI-enabled systems.
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Tusk at Warsaw Security Forum: Ukraine fights for survival, Russia for domination
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk opened the Warsaw Security Forum in Warsaw on Monday, 12 October, framing Russia's war on Ukraine as a fight between Russian domination and Ukrainian survival. He pledged that Poland "cannot and will not" signal yielding to intimidation of Western support for Kyiv, and said Poland and NATO are preparing for various scenarios after his conversation with NATO's European commander General Alexus Grynkewich.
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Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data center in Vladimir, third strike in four days
Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex data center in the Russian city of Vladimir overnight on October 11, forcing Yandex to halt operations at the facility and knocking out a wide range of its consumer and cloud services. The attack is the third on a Yandex data center within four days, following strikes on facilities in Sasovo, Ryazan region on October 8 and in the Kaluga region on October 9. Outages hit the Alice voice assistant, Yandex Music, Telemost, Yandex Dom, taxi and other consumer apps, and more than 80 Yandex Cloud services, with disruptions reported in Russian cities and in Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Serbia.
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Ukrainian drone strike hits Yandex data center at Russian machine-tool plant, triggering large-scale outages
On the night of October 8, a Ukrainian drone strike caused a fire at the Sasta machine-building plant in Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast, where a major Yandex data center is co-located. The data center was fully suspended, knocking out 38 of more than 70 Yandex Cloud services and disrupting Russian banks, marketplaces, telecoms and media. President Zelensky confirmed the strike and called it a "mirror response" to Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centers.
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Russia launches 205 drones at Ukraine overnight; AI-guided turrets score first jet-drone intercepts
Russia struck Ukraine with 205 drones in the night of October 5, including 49 jet-powered variants. Ukrainian air defense shot down or suppressed 172 of them, and the Air Force announced the first successful intercepts of Russian jet-powered drones, including the Geran-5, by AI-guided robotic turrets. The attack caused casualties in Kharkiv and damage in Odesa, Zaporizhzhia and Poltava region.
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NATO's top Europe general drafts 'Theory of Victory' for a Russian attack, built on drones and AI
NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Alexus Grinkevich, is preparing a strategy document titled "Theory of Victory" that sets out how the Alliance would rapidly repel a possible Russian attack on its eastern flank using drones, minimally-crewed systems and artificial intelligence. The document is to be presented in Poland on October 12, and a non-classified version has been obtained by the agency ahead of the unveiling.
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Iran seeks modernized Russian Geran-5 drones for use against Israel and the US, FT reports
Iran has asked Russia to supply it with modernized Geran-5 jet drones — the Russian-developed evolution of Iran's own Shahed design — for potential strikes against Israel and the United States, the Financial Times reported, citing Western intelligence. The request marks a reversal of the original Shahed supply relationship and comes as Moscow scales up jet-powered drone production, producing more than 1,400 such units since the start of the year.
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Anthropic: Russia-linked hackers used Claude Code to automate cyberattacks on Ukraine and Europe
Anthropic published a report documenting how a cyber actor tracked as GTG-20006 — linked by researchers to the Russian group Midnight Blizzard — used the company's Claude Code AI tool to automate large portions of cyberattacks against Ukrainian and European government, defense and diplomatic targets. The investigation identified more than 20 organizations hit between December 2025 and August 2026, with military drone developers and their supply chains among the key themes.
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Ukraine formally notifies ICAO that Russian airspace is unsafe for civil aviation
On September 2, 2026, Ukraine officially notified the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) that Russia's airspace is unsafe for civil aviation and called on airlines and governments to avoid flights over Russian territory. The step followed President Zelensky's September 1 statement that Russian airspace was becoming fully unsafe due to Ukrainian drones and missiles responding to Russian aggression. Within hours, Turkish carriers cancelled flights between Turkey and Moscow, Russian airline shares fell, and Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of "state terrorism" and threatened retaliation.