The Kyiv Independent’s Anna Fratsyvir reported from the AUSA 2026 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C., where Ukraine introduced its first-ever dedicated pavilion at one of the world’s largest defense expos.

Representing around 17 companies, the Ukrainian pavilion showcased battlefield-tested innovations — from rapid-iteration technologies to low-cost defense solutions. Ukrainian developers and specialists highlighted how domestic companies are adapting at an unprecedented pace and seeking strategic partnerships, investment, and global integration with international defense leaders.

Footage released October 14th.

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Russia has set up a network of recruiting services to traffic impoverished people from South America by posting and pursuing them on Facebook job posting groups. Editor-in-chief and lead reporter Devin Woodall was invited to a frontline site to speak with two recently captured Colombians who described how they were trafficked, forced at gunpoint to sign contracts in languages they don't understand, used as cannon fodder, and either left for dead or survived the Russians attempt to kill them.

"For decades, [Russian military education] had trained officers to carry out tactical tasks and work with staff documents, but not to think and act independently,” writes Liubov Tsybulska, director of NGO Join Ukraine, in this op-ed.

Western / west of Marib.