Ukraine estimates it will need $4.67 billion (4.38 billion euros) over the next decade to repair an overlooked but expensive casualty of the ongoing Russian invasion: its telecommunications network. Stanislav Prybytko, director general of the Mobile Broadband Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation, told Euronews Next in a series of estimates that Russia has … Read more
CYWINY WOJSKIE, Poland (AP) — Piotr Korycki picks up a handful of wheat and watches as the yellow grains slide through his fingers. All around him is grain piled high in a warehouse on his farm north of the Polish capital: hundreds of tons of wheat, rye and corn left over from last year’s harvest, … Read more
The occupiers Oleksandr Chendekov, known in Ukraine as “the father of drones,” tells NV about the convergence of Russian raw materials and Chinese production in equipping the Russian military with modern UAVs, and how Ukraine could counter it. Coincidentally, our interview with Chendekov, recorded in a cafe in Kiev, was accompanied by an attack by … Read more
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite.NurPhoto/Getty Images Russia is trying to cut off Ukraine’s access to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites, analysts say. That hasn’t happened, despite the development of a growing arsenal of electronic warfare systems, they said. Satellites have proven crucial in military operations and for communications between Ukrainian forces. Russia is … Read more
Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite.NurPhoto/Getty Images Russia is trying to cut off Ukraine’s access to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites, analysts say. That hasn’t happened, despite the development of a growing arsenal of electronic warfare systems, they said. Satellites have proven crucial in military operations and for communications between Ukrainian forces. Russia is trying … Read more
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Business and political elites have descended on the Swiss Alpine snows of Davos to figure out how to “restore trust” in a fragmenting world. If we can learn anything from the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum – which boldly promoted that theme – it is that we still have … Read more
ABOARD A FRENCH AIR FORCE AWACS (AP) — In the distance, Ukraine is fighting for its survival. Seen from here, in the cockpit of a French Air Force surveillance plane flying over neighboring Romania, the snow-covered landscapes look deceptively peaceful. The dead from the Russian war, the shattered Ukrainian cities and mutilated battlefields are not … Read more