{"id":37369,"date":"2026-09-04T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/37369\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:00:10","slug":"russia-outperforms-ukraine-in-ai-driven-drone-warfare-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/37369\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia outperforms Ukraine in AI-driven drone warfare, expert says\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sep. 4 \u2014 Russia outperformed Ukraine in utilizing AI-powered drones, said Serhii Flash Beskrestnov, electronic warfare (EW) expert and technology advisor to Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an interview with DOU, Ukrainian tech media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russia started to enable AI controls in V2U and new Molniya drones this year. For instance, in Kharkiv, Russian troops <a href=\"https:\/\/gwaramedia.com\/en\/russia-attacks-11-gas-stations-in-kharkiv-over-week-mayor-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">used<\/a> AI-driven V2U drones used to attack gas stations in May 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a question of time when their Shaheds will also start using AI and neural networks to identify targets. It\u2019s our future. Sooner or later, EW will cover the entire territory of Russia, so satellite navigation will become impossible there, just as in our territory. And we\u2019ll have to search for a solution for our deep strikes to fly,\u201d Beskrestnov said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>AI-driven drones orient by the picture their camera sees and don\u2019t need satellite connection or a concrete target, Flash adds. \u201cYou can tell it: move in that way, and when you\u2019ll see the first warehouse \u2013 and here\u2019s what it looks like \u2014 attack,\u201d he explains.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beskrestnov says Ukraine also has \u201cpowerful\u201d neural network specialists, but they focus on image processing from reconnaissance drones that is used to find \u201cwhere the enemy is hiding things.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He adds that Ukraine started to use AI to search for targets earlier than Russia and also has prototypes of AI-driven drones, but Russia scaled the technology very fast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho knows what Molniya is, knows what\u2019s the danger here: they put AI on the cheapest Russian drone, across the entire frontline,\u201d Flash says. Ukraine, on the contrary, doesn\u2019t have a cheap drone it couldn\u2019t do this with.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read moreUkrainian military <a href=\"https:\/\/gwaramedia.com\/en\/ukrainian-military-rejects-putins-claims-of-kozacha-lopan-occupation\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\">rejects<\/a> Putin\u2019s claims of Kozacha Lopan occupationUkrainian sea <a href=\"https:\/\/gwaramedia.com\/en\/ukrainian-sea-drones-attack-port-in-russias-sochi-damaging-ship\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\">drones attack<\/a> port in Russia\u2019s Sochi, damaging ship<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#99f9f6\">\u00a0\u26c8\ufe0f Winter is coming, and, for Ukraine, it is predicted to be awful. Please support our Kharkiv-based newsroom <a href=\"https:\/\/buymeacoffee.com\/gwaramedia\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">with a $5 coffee<\/a> to help us withstand whatever Russia has prepared for us.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1262\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788534010_442_frame-10-1262x388.png.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-227049 lazy\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1262\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788534010_442_frame-10-1262x388.png.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-227049 lazy\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>If you have found an error, highlight the necessary fragment and press Shift + Enter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep. 4 \u2014 Russia outperformed Ukraine in utilizing AI-powered drones, said Serhii Flash Beskrestnov, electronic warfare (EW) expert&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,500,6,13034],"class_list":["post-37369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ai","tag-drone-warfare","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-serhii-flash-beskrestnov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}