Kyiv Post senior defense correspondent Stefan Korshak discusses his 25+ years reporting conflicts in the region, including five years as an OSCE monitor in the Mariupol sector, and argues drone warfare is a revolution comparable to the machine gun and rifled muskets because it widens the battlespace and forces changes across military training, civil services, and national war efforts.
He says Ukraine leads in drone adaptation through rapid, decentralized experimentation while Russia is close behind with more vertical scaling, and he critiques Western militaries for slow institutional reform, citing NATO training vulnerabilities highlighted by Ukrainian drone leader Robert Brodi and a later exercise where a small Ukrainian FPV team rapidly “wiped out” battalion-level forces.
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The conversation also covers complacency tied to “exquisite” platforms, the importance of will, Russian influence operations in Europe, and why exporting Ukrainian drones without the full detection, command, EW, and civilian reporting ecosystem will not replicate Ukraine’s air-defense results against Shahed raids.
