Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine turned the country's skies into a nightly battleground long before Western F-16s arrived. By mid-2024, however, a quiet shift was underway: a small fleet of modern Western fighters began to reshape how Ukraine defended its cities,

Crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane with 67 aboard near Aktau, Kazakhstan, en route from Baku to Grozny on Dec. 25, 2024. The aircraft, carrying passengers from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Grozny in Russia's Chechen Republic, crashed near the coastal city ...

Hello, this is Chris York, reporting from Kyiv on day 1,378 of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. While the international focus remains on Trump's peace deal negotiations in Moscow, our focus in this blog is on updates from the front: Our top story so far: Drones launched by Ukraine's military intelligence struck Russian air defense systems

Ukraine has successfully developed an AI-driven anti-drone gun—the next step in the race between drone and anti-drone warfare, and one that other nations are certain to copy. Russia’s war against Ukraine has become the world’s most important laboratory for modern warfare.

Sweden has promised Ukraine its first-ever airborne control and surveillance aircraft. Experts told BI the planes will boost the effectiveness of Ukraine's promised F-16s. The control aircraft can scan widely to locate targets and threats. The arrival of a ...

Russia has started fitting its Shahed attack drones with heat-seeking missile, an attempt to counter helicopters which shoot down a large proportion of the drones.

Ukraine on Sunday said its forces hit an ultra-modern Russian warplane stationed on an air base nearly 600 kilometers (370 miles) from the front lines. Kyiv’s main military intelligence service shared satellite photos it said showed the aftermath of the ...