Ukraine is racing to deploy AI-powered drone swarms, aiming to offset Russia’s manpower edge – though mass battlefield use may still be years away.

Ukraine is racing to deploy AI-powered drone swarms, aiming to offset Russia’s manpower edge – though mass battlefield use may still be years away.

The size of Russia's drone component had grown by 28,000 over 2026, Brovdi said in an interview to Ukrainska Pravda published on May 14.

LVIV (Ukraine), May 16 — Hundreds of AI-controlled robots operating in unison, talking to each other to autonomously attack targets — a dystopian vision of the future of war...