Frontline Resilience: Ukraine’s Cabinet and President’s Office discussed a new support package for front-line regions, with 80+ government decisions and 60 active mechanisms totaling over UAH 140B to keep communities and critical infrastructure running. Drone Defense Tech: Wild Hornets’ Sting interceptor is being mass-produced after early prototypes showed that “faster” isn’t always better for Shahed hunting—speed was dialed back to improve overall kill performance. Autonomous Air Defense Scaling: Ukraine’s defense community continues pushing autonomous counter-UAV systems that can neutralize Shaheds without constant human input, aiming to speed up interception at scale. Battlefield Robotics: Ukraine reports deploying large numbers of ground robotic complexes and logging tens of thousands of missions, reflecting a shift toward unmanned evacuation and logistics. Wartime Cyber/Control: New reporting shows Russians using dual phones and apps to bypass tightening online controls, highlighting how digital workarounds keep operating under pressure. Global Security Context: A PRIO study says state-based armed conflicts hit 65 in 2025, with Ukraine, Gaza, and Sudan driving the surge—more wars, more fragmentation, more demand for tech-driven defense.