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Baltic States, Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine
Baltic drone manufacturers compete to test their products in Ukraine

Baltic state start-ups are vying with each other to use the fighting in Ukraine to test and improve their new intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance drones, designed for use in a high intensity, high-tech war which is overhelming the defence sector's usual, slow innovation procedures.

Ukraine, United Kingdom
Ukrainian military intelligence contractors expand into corporate intelligence in UK

The UK private security company Drawbridge Group, which has been very active in Ukraine supporting foreign legionnaires, is now developing its offer of legal support directly in its homeland.

Ukraine
Ukrainian electronic warfare specialist Griselda prepares for arrival of F-16s

The data fusion firm is developing new software for the location of Russia's anti-aircraft defences in real time. The imminent arrival of the first F-16s and the need to ensure they can operate in Ukrainian airspace is stimulating innovation in the field of electronic warfare.

Africa, Ukraine
Special forces veterans seek French partners for private security fight against Wagner

Private security company Executive Risk System recently moved its offices to the UK and is prioritising the fight against the Russian paramilitary group alongside Ukrainian forces.

Poland, Ukraine
Ukrainian AI makes discreet appearance at Poland's FEX 2024

The second edition of Poland's military exercise was joined by Griselda, a Ukrainian start-up specialising in intelligence data fusion, an area of particular interest to Warsaw.

United Kingdom, United States
US business diplomat hooks up her defence clients with Kyiv and Tel Aviv

Dubai-based Amulus Security is using the services of little-known Ohio company Mintovate to help it sell its ballistics protection equipment to the Ukrainian and Israeli armies.

The Intelligence Gazette
Tracfin blacklists chauffeur, ex-MI6 chief speaks to parliament, Ukraine's Alpha sleuths in Paris

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

FranceTracfin says no to debt-ridden chauffeur with a penchant for prostitutes

United KingdomForeign Affairs Committee hears from ex-MI6 chief

France/UkraineUkraine's Alpha intelligence experts visit Paris

Spotlight | Africa, France, Ukraine, United States
Western allies' reservations about deployment of Ukrainian special forces against Russia in Africa

Kyiv is eager to take the fight to Moscow's new African heartland. But given the deterioration in Ukraine's position on the front line in the east, its Western allies are more inclined to handle the situation themselves.

Russia, Ukraine
Ukrainian military intelligence innovates to thwart Russian war effort

In an attempt to stop the production of strategic fuels used by Russian missiles, the GUR's engineers have developed a new type of drone.

Spotlight | Poland, Ukraine
Poland's Nil unit providing Kyiv intelligence with drones and training

Warsaw is mobilising a specialist intelligence unit to train Ukrainian artillery reconnaissance teams on freshly delivered drones 'made in Poland'.

Ukraine
Kyiv reshuffle: military intelligence expertise to revitalise foreign spy agency

In the deep-set rivalry between Ukraine's powerful domestic and military intelligence services, the foreign agency had until now come off worse. Its new leadership, tasked with clearing out its ranks, might change that.

Spotlight | Russia, Ukraine
Kyiv's elite Shaman battalion waging a secret war against Moscow

Ukrainian strike campaigns against Russian industrial infrastructure rely heavily on Ukraine's clandestine military intelligence Shaman unit.

Russia, Ukraine
Ukrainian military intelligence dissects Russian Zala Lancet-3 drone

The GUR has undertaken a detailed examination of the Russian-made kamikaze drone following its capture last week, gathering information to be used to thwart Moscow's supply channels for Western technology.