Updated On: 16 July, 2024 08:57 AM IST | Kyiv | Agencies
Defence startups across Ukraine—about 250 according to industry estimates—are creating the killing machines at secret locations

Zelensky with a Ukrainian servicewoman in Kyiv. Pic/AFP
Struggling with manpower shortages, overwhelming odds and uneven international assistance, Ukraine hopes to find a strategic edge against Russia in an abandoned warehouse or a factory basement.
An ecosystem of laboratories in hundreds of secret workshops is leveraging innovation to create a robot army that Ukraine hopes will kill Russian troops and save its own wounded soldiers and civilians.