1/ From a coffee break in Copenhagen they just steered a killer robot in war-zone Ukraine.
An incredible new tech enables real-time, zero-lag control, even from 2,000km away.
War from home is the new work from home. 🧵⤵️
2/ At DALO EXPO 2025—Denmark's premier defense exhibition, held in August—visitors witnessed something both encouraging and chilling, as reported by @DefenderMediaUA.
With a simple interface controller they could operate an actual combat robot deep in Ukraine, in real-time. ⤵️
3/ The company behind this breakthrough?
Ark Robotics.
They have a damn cool motto: "Collaborative autonomy for democracies."
🇪🇪🇺🇦 A Ukrainian-Estonian startup founded just one year ago, they've already armed 20 combat brigades with their tech. ⤵️
4/ Their secret weapon: The Frontier System.
It's an AI-powered platform for managing robotic fleets with minimal human input from afar.
Air, land, and sea. All controlled by operators who are nowhere near the danger zone.
Works with ANY manufacturer's drones. ⤵️
5/ Here's what makes this terrifying, if you're the enemy:
⦿ Encrypted real-time video
⦿ Unified interface for commanders
⦿ AI-powered fleet management
⦿ Operators stay alive (many countries away)⤵️
6/ Still a prototype? Yes. Already battle-tested? Also yes.
When your "beta test" is an active war-zone and you're already trusted by 20 brigades, you know you've built something extraordinary.
This is a great value Ukraine can offer to the USA, by the way⤵️
7/ It's safe to say you can expect more of this:
Ukraine just launched K4 Startup Studio—$250,000 grants for AI defense startups.
8/ And if you made it this far, I invite you to subscribe to my Substack newsletter, delivered at 9:05 am ET every day from Ukraine. . 🧵🎬 lvivnow.substack.com
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1/ A Ukrainian father built toy tanks for children's parks. Then Russia invaded.
Now his combat robots are hunting real Russian tanks on the battlefield.
This is the wild story of how one inventor went from amusement rides to building Ukraine's robot army 🧵⤵️
2/ As @DefenderMediaUA reports, the transformation of Tank Bureau perfectly captures Ukraine's wartime innovation spirit.
In 2017, Dmytro Mamonov was building mini T-34 replicas for kids to ride in Kyiv parks ... ⤵️
3/ Everything changed when cluster munitions hit Mamonov's neighborhood in Sloviansk (📸), Donbas region.
He went west to Zhytomyr with his family and started working in a garage to make not toys but an electric stretcher to evacuate wounded soldiers from the battlefield. ⤵️
1/ "In Donbas, Ukrainians are killing waves of Russians on motorbikes—
—but when the Russians stall at the front, they bomb Ukrainian cities.”
A trusted frontline Ukrainian officer told me how Ukraine is holding the line—and the ONE plot-changing thing Trump can do 🧵⤵️
2/ The hinge is Pokrovsk, a Ukrainian town meaning "protection of the Virgin Mary."
For 13 months, self-serving, lazy Western media & think-tank “experts” predicted it would fall to Russia:
Sept ’24, Dec ’24, June ’25, July, last week…
It hasn’t. Ukraine keeps holding.⤵️
3/ Why it matters: If Pokrovsk falls, the “dam” protecting left-bank Ukraine cracks, potentially giving Russia a wide run over half of the vast country.
What the media won't tell you: “Our superpower is the motivation not to lose," the frontline officer tells me. ⤵️
1/ See the fire here? That's a Russian oil refinery.
The Russian War Machine, though insanely violent, is proving to be a paper tiger when you strike its heart.
It's drones, rather than diplomats, who are making this possible.
Here's what Trump is starting to see. 🧵⤵️
2/ Ukraine has knocked offline 38% of Russia’s oil refineries, forced its Black Sea navy into retreat, and built a drone wall accounting for 80% of Russian equipment losses.
As David Kirichenko (@DVKirichenko) reports via the @LowyInstitute, Russia is facing chaos. ⤵️
3/ The economics:
⦿ Fuel shortages even for military
⦿ Massive queues at petrol stations
⦿ Moscow forced to boost gas imports from failed Belarus by 36%
⦿ A ballooning deficit of 5.7 trillion roubles
The war economy is running on fumes. It just needs a few more blows. ⤵️