🚨 Russia has rejected all proposed evacuation routes from occupied Oleshky, Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said. Residents are left without food, water, or medicine, while mines make evacuation difficult. Lubinets said Russia also rejected a proposed ceasefire.

We’re launching the Army of Robots. In 2022, we launched the Army of Drones. Today, drones account for over 95% of battlefield strikes, and Ukraine has more than 700 UAV manufacturers. Now we need the next technological breakthrough: the robotization of warfare. The goal is simple — save lives. Robots should take on the most dangerous missions: evacuating the wounded, delivering ammunition, mining and demining, reconnaissance, defending positions and engaging targets. The Army of Robots is not one company. It’s an ecosystem. We will invest in defense tech companies, launch our own technology projects, test them with the military and scale what works on the battlefield. We’re now looking for defense tech companies and engineers working on robotic technologies — as well as a CTO / Tech Lead for the Army of Robots. Join us: thearmyofrobots.com/en

I am alarmed by the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Oleshky, a town in the temporarily occupied parts of the Kherson region of Ukraine. Civilians, including children, are trapped without sufficient food, medicines, medical care, running water or electricity. Reports indicate that they face a high risk of death. Under international humanitarian law, Russia, as the occupying power, has the duty to provide food and medical supplies and to facilitate humanitarian relief. I call for an immediate local ceasefire, unhindered humanitarian access, and the safe evacuation of civilians. The hardship and suffering of people caught along the frontlines of the war and in occupied territories demand international attention and action. #humanrights #Ukraine #Oleshky #Kherson #HumanitarianLaw

The simplest heuristic for AI consciousness is that we already have AI vision and AI hearing and AI language and AI reasoning and metacognition, and countless other capacities we once thought were exclusively human, and that these capacity were not only learned through a process of gradient descent but have striking parallels to how brains work, with no good reason for thinking consciousness is different in origin.

Anthropic loses legal fight to shed DOD's designation as a 'supply-chain risk' defenseone.com/threats/2026/… via @DefenseOne @SterlingCroxton

JUST IN: US appeals court declines to block Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic reut.rs/4Azdok9

At the moment, Russian attacks are increasingly targeting data centers and critical digital infrastructure in Ukraine. Even our website is beginning to feel the effects. We are doing everything we can to reduce the impact, keep the site available, and prepare backup options in case our primary hosting infrastructure is disrupted. If access to The Defence Blog is temporarily affected, we will continue publishing updates through our official social media channels.

Sabotage, cyberattacks, disinformation - these tools of hybrid warfare are financed as deliberately as they are executed. In their latest #RUSIJournal article, Olivia Allison and Oksana Ihnatenko argue the FATF's existing framework has yet to catch up with the threat. [Free to read] rusi.org/explore-our-researc…

Russia's massive attack on Ukraine reached Moldova again this morning: four Russian drones violated our airspace, and at least one exploded in the north. Russia's war endangers all of Europe. We condemn this war and stand with Ukraine.

Fire breaks out at Starlink base in Masovian region of Poland on Wednesday evening. The station enables internet access for large parts of Eastern Europe, including Ukraine. Initial investigations suggest a possible arson attack. liveuamap.com/en/2026/24-sep…

U.S. prosecutors allege that Oxygen Forensics concealed its Russian ownership and Russia-based software development while selling digital forensic tools to American government agencies, including the Secret Service. occrp.org/en/news/us-charges…

Xi-Wiz: This late May screw-up: The Chinese government has taken possession of potentially sensitive F-35 stealth aircraft parts that were inexplicably diverted to Hong Kong while being sent to the US from Australia, people briefed on the incident said bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Scooplet: President Trump recently signed a commission to permanently make Marco Rubio the National Security Adviser, per a U.S. official. He had been in the job in an acting capacity before — now it’s official.

The year is 1946. Computers are large and fill an entire warehouse. The year is 2026. Computers are large and fill an entire warehouse.

The U.S. is continuing its military presence in Estonia. This is an strong signal of Allied unity and important element of deterrence and defence on NATO’s eastern flank. Estonia is doing its part, investing over 5% of GDP in defence this year and strengthening our national capabilities. A strong Europe and continued U.S. commitment to European security reinforce each other.

Very cool job opening at CSET (share widely!): we're hiring a lead for our research team focused on military & intelligence adoption of AI (plus other natsec applications of emerging tech). We're looking for experienced candidates with a strong background in 1+ of military operations, intel analysis, and acquisitions/requirements/budgeting/T&E. You'll be leading a team of fantastic researchers, guiding ongoing work as well as setting new directions for the team. CSET produces independent, rigorous, technically informed research on what the rapidly changing tech landscape means for national security decisionmakers. This is the team that has produced incredible work on Chinese military adoption, US AI decision support, US-China space launch comparisons, and more - I'll link examples in the thread. Apply here by Oct 5 (2 weeks from today): cset.georgetown.edu/job/nati…

A devastating loss for the analytic community. This is a truly incomprehensible decision and massive own-goal.

It’s empty on the other side of Estonia’s border because Russia’s troops are in Ukraine. Therefore, all the talk about Russia potentially attacking NATO soon is simply not supported by what we see on the ground. Putin wants to instill fear in us, but we must remain calm, stand firm, and keep our red lines. I stressed this today in New York at @ConcordiaSummit, where I spoke about NATO’s eastern flank security together with former Polish President @AndrzejDuda. #Concordia26

Using AI in many cases means sending your most sensitive thoughts to a server where they can be exploited as training data, sold to ad brokers, or even handed to law enforcement. So I assembled this guide to using AI with your privacy intact. wired.com/story/how-to-use-a…

A company linked to a major donor for President Donald Trump's $350 million White House ballroom project received authorization from the Treasury Department to complete an acquisition involving a sanctioned Russian bank, according to public records. buff.ly/qUXz4El