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Ukraine Is the First “Hackers’ War”

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Rapid and resourceful technological improvisation has long been a mainstay of warfare, but the war in Ukraine is taking it to a new level. During a training exercise in southern Ukraine in May 2023, a drone pilot maneuvered a flier to a height of 100 meters before dropping a dummy anti-tank grenade on to a pile of tires.

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Elon Musk has provided 12,000 Starlink dishes to Ukraine

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At the 2022 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Fedorov shared that the SpaceX CEO has provided over 12,000 Starlink dishes to Ukraine. He also stated that the terminals are crucial to Ukraine’s information war on social media against Russia. . We will talk about digital Ukraine. And how we win in cyber war.

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SpaceX has spent ~$80M on Starlink support for Ukraine thus far

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SpaceX has spent about $80 million on Starlink support in Ukraine since it started helping the country in its war with Russia. . The SpaceX CEO has received backlash recently for his Ukraine-Russia peace plan. Obviously, we are pro Ukraine,” clarified Elon Musk. . Our support for Russia is $0. Guess who is going to win?

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Puzzling Out the Drone War Over Ukraine

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Eight years later, the Russians are again invading Ukraine. These include the Eleron-3SV and the Orlan-10 drones, both of which have been used extensively in Syria and Ukraine. An Orion was credited with an airstrike on a command center in Ukraine in early March 2022. unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs).

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Ukraine confirms arrival of fresh batch of Elon Musk’s Starlink terminals

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Ukraine Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov recently confirmed that a fresh batch of Starlink terminals has arrived in the country. “A new batch of Starlink stations is already in Ukraine! . “A new batch of Starlink stations is already in Ukraine! Ukraine is the future!

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Elon Musk’s Starlink has about 150k daily users in Ukraine, confirms official

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Roughly 150,000 people are using Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet system in Ukraine every day, according to Digital minister Mykhailo Fedorov. To date, Starlink has provided Ukraine with stable internet access despite Russia’s efforts to disconnect the country from the World Wide Web. .

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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Early on a June morning in 2023, my colleagues and I drove down a bumpy dirt road north of Kyiv in Ukraine. While we were in Ukraine, we also demonstrated our technology for the State Special Transportation Service , a branch of the Ukrainian military responsible for keeping roads and bridges open. All our hard work paid off.

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