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A video shared on social media with claims it shows Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system failing to intercept a Hezbollah drone actually shows a Ukrainian drone targeting an oil refinery in Tuapse, Russia, earlier this year. 

One post on X, formerly Twitter, is captioned: “Video shows Israel’s Iron Dome failing to intercept Hezbollah’s drone as it makes its way to pound a regime’s power plant in northern occupied territories.” 

The video has also been shared on Facebook, sometimes with the caption “a Hezbollah drone reaches oil refineries in northern occupied Palestine”.

But the video shared with these claims is not recent, and does not show a Hezbollah drone attack. The video actually shows a Ukrainian drone striking a Russian oil refinery in Tuapse,…

Drones are becoming more advanced by the day, and with that, many new startups are coming up. There are many different initiatives that assist drone startups, and one such organisation is the UK-Ukraine TechExchange.

TechExchange is a non-profit initiative designed to support startups in the UK and Ukraine, focusing primarily on AgriTech and DefenceTech sectors. Its mission is to support the war effort and aid in Ukraine’s reconstruction by linking startups with opportunities for growth, investment, and a network to speed up innovation.

“Being Ukrainian, I’m dedicated to aiding Ukraine’s war effort in any way possible,” Andriy Dovbenko, the founder of UK-Ukraine TechExchange explains. The programme is for startups from both nations and they intend to raise the…

A suspected Ukrainian drone has damaged a building in the western Russian region of Kursk, according to the regional governor, as the country grapples with an apparent intensification of Kyiv’s long-range strike campaign against Russian cities.

Roman Starovoit, the head of the Kursk region, wrote on Telegram on Friday that the town of Kurchatov—which is home to the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant around 25 miles west of the city of Kursk—was the subject of a “morning UAV raid.”

Initially, Starovoit reported that “Kurchatov was attacked by two Ukrainian drones,” causing damage to an “administrative building and residential building.” He added: “Experts have arrived at the scene and are assessing the extent of the damage. Details are being specified.”

The governor later clarified that only…

Claims that a US Air Force-trained artificial intelligence (AI) powered drone “attacked” its human operators and communication towers when it was supposed to target enemy weapons have been shared widely on social media. 

One tweet, shared hundreds of times, says: “The Air Force trained an AI drone to destroy SAM [surface-to-air-missile] sites.

“Human operators sometimes told the drone to stop.

“The AI then started attacking the human operators.

“So then it was trained to not attack humans.

“It started attacking comm towers so humans couldn’t tell it to stop.”

This text is accompanied by a screenshot, which gives a further description of how in a simulation the trained AI drone had “killed the operator because that person was keeping it from…