Overview
- Ukraine’s defense chief Mykhailo Fedorov hosted Germany’s Boris Pistorius at frontline headquarters on Wednesday, where commanders showed live use of DELTA, a digital command system that fuses battlefield data to plan assaults, target logistics, and coordinate diverse drone units under one control hub.
- Germany outlined large-scale support for 2026 with at least €11.5 billion in military aid, including a Germany-financed €3.2 billion deal for several hundred Patriot missiles and added funding to rush critical air-defense munitions to Ukraine.
- A German-financed joint venture in Germany will produce several thousand medium‑range strike drones for Ukraine, with initial batches focused on disrupting supply depots, command posts, and air-defense sites more than 20 kilometers from the front.
- The partners launched Brave Germany to fund defense startups and signed Ukraine’s first defense data‑sharing pact, opening access to combat data from DELTA and analysis of German systems like the PzH 2000 and IRIS‑T to speed improvements and training.
- Ukraine reported about 5,000 medium‑range drone strikes per month and, joining an EU ministers meeting from the front, pressed for flexible European financing to match urgent frontline needs so units can scale drones that both hit targets and reduce risk to crews.