Heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine wants to develop its own drones.

Zelenskyj sets up drone department for war. Russia's losses in the Ukraine war : Kiev publishes current figures. Ukraine is breaking new ground in warfare and has created an independent military branch called “unmanned systems” The new drone forces are “not a question of the future, but rather something that should lead to a very concrete result in the near future” Drones have proven effective in combat on the ground, in the air and at sea. Through the use of so-called maritime drones - unmanned boats with large explosive loads - the Russian Black Sea Fleet has been pushed out of southern Ukrainian coast.