Russian high schools now require 17 hours of basic military training classes for 6th to 11th grade

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A Russian teenager looks at his phone while holding a Kalashnikov rifle.
Teenagers examine Kalashnikov assault rifles during a military training lesson in Moscow.

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The next evolution of attack drones like Shaheds will see AI choosing their own targets: Ukraine's drone guru

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A Wild Hornets interceptor drone chases down a Russian Shahed.
A Shahed drone seen from the camera of a Ukrainian interceptor.

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AI cut the UK's war planning cycle from 72 hours to just one, British Army's top general says

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Three Royal Marines open fire from behind cover of a military vehicle.
Royal Marines fire small arms during an exercise in Norway.

POPhot Alex Ceolin/UK Defense Ministry

Ukraine's drone pilot scoreboard logged over 800,000 recorded hits against Russia in half a year

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A female Ukrainian soldier holds a drone in her right hand while her left attaches it to a launch system.
A female Ukrainian soldier prepares a fixed-wing drone for launch.

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The end to years of brutal fighting is in sight for some of Ukraine's battle-weary troops

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A Ukrainia gunner smokes a cigarette in a trench.
Ukraine's longest-serving troops are set to be eligible for release from the war by late autumn, Fedorov said.

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Ukrainian troops are getting up to $10,000 in monthly bonuses for capturing soldiers or taking outposts

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Three Ukrainian soldiers hold rifles while training for trench warfare in Sumy.
Soldiers in Sumy train in a trench during the winter.

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A Russian warship sailing between England and France fired warning shots near a British civilian yacht

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The Admiral Grigorovich is anchored at a port in Sudan.
The Admiral Grigorovich, pictured here in Sudan, has been sailing in the English Channel as Russia's shadow fleet tankers come under threat from seizure by the UK.

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Ukrainian soldiers have been ditching combat boots for what they call 'tactical Crocs' when they're off the front lines

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A hand holds up a pair of khaki rubber shoes with breathing holes in them against a set of wooden shelves that have a grey drone on them
Changing footwear is key for Ukrainian soldiers.

Dmytro "Liber" Zhluktenko

Ukrainian troops are crippling Russia's supply bridges by slamming drones repeatedly into the asphalt

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A satellite image shows two bridges connecting Crimea and the rest of Ukraine, while a drone-camera shot shows a bridge burning after several attacks.
Footage posted by the 1st Separate Assault Regiment shows the damage caused to several bridges from Crimea to the southern front.

1st Separate Assault Regiment

How an obscure EV tax accidentally cost Ukraine thousands of battle bots this year

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A small uncrewed buggy navigates the streets of a wartorn village.
A ground drone delivers supplies in the streets of Kostyantynivka in Donetsk.

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