Óskar Hallgrímsson

Photojournalist working in the war in Ukraine.
OSINT reporter

[Walking Eye 🇪🇺 🇫🇷 @eye_walking]

I’ve been watching Ukraine’s drone production curve for two years, and the 2026 numbers just crossed a structural threshold.

In February 2022, Ukraine produced 3,000 drones, 99% of them imported from China as complete systems. By 2023 the curve crossed 800,000, then 2.2 million in 2024, more than 4 million in 2025, and the 2026 target now sits at 7 million units with capacity to scale to 10 million.

That output is roughly 70 times current US combat drone production (Bloomberg, January 2026), and assembly is now 99% domestic. Monthly FPV output went from 20,000 in summer 2024 to over 200,000 in 2025. The largest producers (Ukraine has no traditional defense primes) build tens of thousands of units per month inside underground bunker factories at SpaceX Starlink scale.

My read: the center of European military industrial gravity has shifted 1,200 km east of Berlin since 2022, while EU defense planning still procures as if it has not. That gap is going to become a strategic liability if it is not closed within the next 24 months.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Russians say that Ukraine now has fire control over the key M-14 highway, the land corridor between Russia and Crimea.

[NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @NOELreports]

NABU and SAPO exposed an organized group accused of laundering ₴460M through elite construction near Kyiv. A suspicion notice was issued to former Presidential Office head Andriy Yermak under Part 3 of Article 209, with urgent investigative actions ongoing. #Ukraine

[Preston Stewart @prestonstew_]

$882 to eliminate one Russian soldier.

That's based on 11 months of data analyzed by Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces. That's about the most cost-effective battlefield in modern history.

[Roy🇨🇦 @GrandpaRoy2]

The Russians report that the Ukrainian ZAL-14 (ЗАЛ-14) bomb contains 10 kg of explosive and forms an EFP (Explosively Formed Projectile) that penetrates a meter of concrete.
Seen being loaded under a “Vampire” heavy bomber drone, it is designed to destroy bunkers and buildings.

[Chuck Pfarrer | Indications & Warnings | @ChuckPfarrer]

CASPIAN BOOM: Ukraine just struck ANOTHER Russian Project 22800 Karakurt-class missile corvette — this time deep in the Caspian Sea at the Kaspiysk Naval Base in Dagestan. Long-range FP-1/FP-2 drones hit the Kalibr carrier at its "safe" home port — 1,500 km from Ukrainian territory.

[🇺🇦 Unmanned Systems Forces @usf_army]

Operators of the Unmanned Systems Forces grouping struck a "Buk-M3" SAM system, a "Strela-10" SAM system, an underground fuel and lubricants storage facility, and other key enemy targets

The @1usc_army struck two "Buk-M3" SAM systems in the Donetsk region, railway tank cars with fuel and lubricants, as well as an underground fuel and lubricants storage facility in the Luhansk region.

Fighters of the @414magyarbirds struck a "Strela-10" SAM system and enemy UAV control points in the Zaporizhzhia region.

Operators of the @k_2army struck a fuel and lubricants depot in the Luhansk region.

An ammunition depot, as well as a concentration of enemy personnel and equipment in the Luhansk region, were struck by pilots of the "Phoenix" border guard unit in coordination with fighters of the @Raid_413

The operations were conducted in coordination with the Deep Strike Center.

#ADcide continues. During the first week of May, 9 elements of the enemy's air defense were struck.

Thanks to the coordinated work of the USF grouping, the enemy suffers multi-million dollar losses in equipment and resources, which directly undermines their military potential and reduces their offensive capabilities.

[First Corps Azov of the National Guard of Ukraine @azov_media]

Azov returns to Mariupol. For now, through reconnaissance-strike systems.

Pilots of First Corps Azov of the National Guard of Ukraine patrol roads up to 160 km deep behind the line of contact.

In the cameras of reconnaissance-strike drones: Mariupol and enemy military targets. Enemy forces are using Ukrainian roads in the city and its outskirts to move personnel and military hardware.

First Corps Azov continues to establish a "sanitary zone" for Russian logistics. The strike depth will increase.

Azov is already patrolling its home city of Mariupol. From the skies — for now. But more is coming.

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

💥 Ukrainian housewife kitchen drone shoots a Russian Molniya drone with a shotgun.
Ukraine's cost of interception of this $800 Russian drone is the cost of one shotgun slug — $0.50

[Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love]

“Prymary�� unit targeted critical Russian military assets across occupied Crimea, included:

— “Podlyot-K1” radar
— MR-231-3 “Vaygach” naval radar
— EW & ELINT systems
— “Baltika-B” radar
— Black Sea Fleet surveillance systems
— Su-24 aircraft shelter
— Su-30 aircraft shelter
— “Geran/Gerbera” UAV relay communication site
— Fuel tank at ATAN oil depot
— ELINT lab on top of a Russian Black Sea Fleet HQ building

[EMPR.media @EuromaidanPR]

Massive strike: Ukraine hits Russia's biggest oil refinery in Rostov

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

🚨🧵 Ukraine developed Lima, a secret electronic jamming system.
In the first 3 months of 2026 Lima disabled:
- 26 Kinzhal ballistic missiles ($130M)
- 33 cruise missiles ($99M)
- 10,000+ drones ($250M)
58 of 59 Kinzhal ballistic missiles in total since last year ($290 million)

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🚨 BREAKING: The army is retreating and giving up positions. Putin is losing already captured territory

Russia’s offensive has stalled. For the first time in a long while, Russia is not just standing still — it is moving backward, not forward.

According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), in April 2026 Russian forces withdrew from positions covering an area of 116 square kilometers. This is the first recorded instance of such territorial losses since August 2024.

The Russian army has begun to lose territory it had previously captured. For Moscow, this is an especially troubling signal: after months of pressure and attempts to push the front line forward, there are now signs that holding the line is becoming increasingly difficult.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

A stork appeared during the farewell of a Ukrainian defender.

We hear this a lot in Ukraine - people say storks often show up at funerals, especially for fallen soldiers.

I’m not someone who believes in signs, but it’s hard to ignore how symbolic it feels. A bird that represents life showing up at a goodbye.

Video: tetjana1783/TikTok

[NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @NOELreports]

❗️This is big. Visual confirmation shows Ukrainian strikes hit Su-57 aircraft and a Su-34 at Shagol airbase in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region, around 1,700 km from Ukraine’s state border. The attack reached one of the deepest confirmed aviation targets inside Russia. #Ukraine

[Slava 🇺🇦 @Heroiam_Slava]

The "Wetruegun" Drone School has developed an FPV mod for GTA V that allows players to create their own missions and customize the drone to their preferences.

You can connect a real drone controller to the game. It is noted that this is not a replacement for real training, but a great way to relax.

[How To AI @HowToAI_]

someone built an OPENSOURCE MILITARY RADAR that tracks multiple targets up to 20km away.

contractors charge a quarter-million dollars for this tech. one dev just put the entire github repo online for free.

pcbs, fpga code, schematics, python gui. all under MIT license..

[NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @NOELreports]

Ukraine deployed private air defense networks integrating AI-guided turrets, drone interceptors and electronic warfare systems. Operators remotely engaged aerial targets, with companies reporting effectiveness of around 85% against threats including Shahed drones. #Ukraine

[Drone Wars @Drone_Wars_]

The SECTR system by Talon Avionics reportedly uses 16 microphones and AI to detect drones via acoustic signatures, identifying propeller sounds at up to ~100 m distance.

#UAV #CounterDrone #AI #SECTR #DroneWars

[Air Power @RealAirPower1]

While high-end assets like THAAD and the F-35 grab all the headlines, a "blue-collar" hero, as I like to call it, is quietly winning the drone war every night. The RAF Regiment’s Rapid Sentry system, deployed around Erbil, Iraq, has notched an incredible tally of ~50 Iranian drone intercepts since February 28. To put that in perspective, Rapid Sentry has downed roughly 10 times as many drones as the RAF’s fighter jets in the same theater! It’s the ultimate goalkeeper: a VSHORAD designed exclusively to tackle low and slow threats like the Shahed-136. 1/2