Max Hunder

reuters.com/business/aeros… The U.S. and Qatar are in discussions with Kyiv about acquiring Ukrainian interceptor drones as a cheap alternative to down Iranian Shahed UAVs amid the war in the Gulf, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.

podcasts.apple.com/ua/podcast/on-… Reflecting on my experiences covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on its fourth anniversary.

Solidarity. A sad day for journalism

Ukraine will allow its allies to train their AI models on Kyiv's valuable combat data, newly appointed Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has said. reuters.com/business/aeros…

Ukraine's wartime male life expectancy is 57.3. The average age of a Ukrainian soldier is now 47.

These charts tell a sad story. From 520,000 births to 177,000 in little more than a decade. In the frontline region of Kherson, eleven people die for every baby born.

Russia's invasion collapsed Ukraine's already falling birth rate, as well as driving out millions of refugees, and the country is now facing the prospect of only having half of its 1991 population by 2051. My deep dive for Reuters: reuters.com/world/ukraine-…

A fascinating conversation with Vadym Skibitskyi, the deputy head of military intelligence. Lots about North Korea: Pyongyang now mass producing kamikaze drones, but artillery shell supplies to Russia are way down on 2024 as stocks run low.

New: Russia plans to make 120,000 of its cheap and devastating glide bombs, according to Ukrainian intelligence. It is also starting to mass produce a 200km range bomb and working on a 400km version, putting far more cities at risk. reuters.com/business/aeros…

Our deep-dive graphic story on Ukraine's campaign of long-range drone strikes on Russia's oil facilities. Nearly 60 strikes since the start of August have given Ukraine, which is on the back foot at the front, a serious card to play against its enemy. reuters.com/graphics/UKRAI…

Second part of the interview, about the company’s difficult financial situation, is below. UZ has lost about half of its profitable cargo traffic volume since the war began reuters.com/sustainability…

Russia has unleashed a massive wave of attacks on Ukraine's railways since the summer, using new tactics to hit key nodes with long-range drones, but the network is holding up for now, the CEO of the state railway company told Reuters. reuters.com/business/aeros…

Fascinating video by a good friend of mine— for those who like niche travel vlogs and central Ukraine!

reuters.com/business/aeros… Ukraine is finding more and more Russian and Belarusian electronics in the wreckage of missiles fired at it by Moscow. This suggests Russia is increasingly able to replace smuggled Western components that it has hitherto to relied on.

The world's biggest academic association of genocide scholars has passed a resolution saying the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday reuters.com/world/middle-e…

The 21st century's biggest war has given Ukraine a set of combat data with no parallel. Kyiv now hopes to use it as one of its “cards” to entice its allies reuters.com/business/aeros…

“Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire on Monday while operating a live video feed at Gaza's Nasser Hospital, reported on the war's civilian suffering while himself living in a tent and struggling to find food for his family.” reuters.com/business/media…

BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr

Ukraine bets big on interceptor drones as low-cost air shield Field report from eastern Ukraine, as Zelensky says he wants $6 billion to build interceptor UAVs reuters.com/business/aeros…

Our latest look at how the changing nature of the war, although terrifying and very grim, is slowing Russia down and buying time for an embattled Ukraine reuters.com/business/aeros…