Russian universities are promising free tuition and up to $70,000 to students who are willing to serve as drone pilots in the Russian military for a year—all while claiming students can avoid the risk of frontline combat duty in Ukraine.

Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, working with the Security Service of Ukraine, reported a strike on a Russian training and production complex, citing damage to facilities and materiel central to drone and ammunition activities.

The winner of the first was a twenty-five-year-old Ukrainian pilot named Timur Fatkullin. At the controls of his red-and-silver Extra 330LX—a nimble German sports plane—he made the unusual move of starting his sequence upside down.

College students in Russia are getting a lucrative offer to ditch their studies for a year and fly drones for the military for financial rewards.  | World News

United States and Ukrainian authorities warned Saturday of a possible incoming Russian missile strike after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered retaliation for a deadly Ukrainian attack.

The scale and intensity of drone strikes by Russia on Ukraine continue to escalate. Since spring, Ukraine's response has been to strike energy targets farther inside Russia, with more regularity than at any point since the start of Moscow's full-scale invasion.

Russia is increasing use of the Molniya-2 drone for strike and reconnaissance missions due to its ability to evade Ukraine's kinetic and non-kinetic counter-drone defens