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The Ministry of Defense has issued an order granting private air defense status to Wild Hornets — specifically to its anti-Shahed unit, Night Hornets, which already has significant combat experience and dozens of targets downed.

Starting today, we are building our own anti-drone air defense network. It will include remote control centers, a network for remote drone launches based on Hornet Vision Ctrl technology, and field positions.

We will not sell “facility protection” services. The operations of our private air defense unit will be funded by profits from drone sales.

Night Hornets will operate wherever protection from russian attack drones is needed — as part of Ukraine’s overall air defense system.

Our crews already go on combat duty alongside the military every day. The unit has destroyed more than 50 Shaheds, including jet-powered ones.

The unit includes Wild Hornets instructors and test pilots. Among them are guys who started from scratch at the company and grew into top instructors, as well as veterans of the russian-Ukrainian war with real combat experience.

The unit has destroyed most of its targets using our remote interceptor control technology — Hornet Vision Ctrl.

Now, this effort is scaling up.

Night Hornets crews will carry out combat missions under the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

We develop technologies, manufacture interceptors, train pilots — and now we ourselves are becoming part of the system that protects Ukrainian skies.

Including the skies over Kyiv. We develop technologies that work. And we use them ourselves to protect our country.

Over the three months of the USF “Crimean Switch Off” operation (06.07.26–03.10.26), 456⚡️ energy nodes were struck in the occupied territories and in russia.

Among the energy nodes successfully struck by the USF Birds over 10 days were 17 facilities in Crimea, 14 in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk Oblast, 5 in the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk Oblast, 6 in the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, and one each in Kharkiv and Kherson Oblasts, namely:

🔥500 kV Peremoha Substation, Prokhladne, Luhansk Oblast

🔥330 kV Chaikino Substation, Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast

🔥330 kV Pershokostiantynivka Substation, Kherson Oblast

🔥330 kV Ostrovska Substation, Kyiat, AR Crimea

🔥330 kV Zoria Substation, Afiny, Donetsk Oblast

🔥330 kV Zakhidno-Krymska Substation, Karierne, AR Crimea

🔥220 kV Smolianka Substation, Donetsk

🔥220 kV Krasnoperekopsk Substation, Yany Kapu, AR Crimea

🔥220 kV Soda Substation, Yany Kapu, AR Crimea

🔥110 kV Poshtovyi GPP-1 Substation, Donetsk

🔥110 kV Pivnichna Substation, Donetsk

🔥110 kV Pryvilne Substation, AR Crimea

🔥110 kV Styla Substation, Dokuchaievsk, Donetsk Oblast

🔥110 kV Zasiadko Substation, Donetsk

🔥110 kV Zasiadko Substation (repeat strike), Donetsk

🔥110 kV Pivnichna Substation, Donetsk

🔥110 kV Nyzhnohirsk Substation, AR Crimea

🔥35 kV Slovianske Substation, AR Crimea

🔥35 kV Chornomorske Substation, AR Crimea

🔥35 kV Medvedeve Substation, AR Crimea

🔥35 kV Krasnosilska Substation, AR Crimea

🔥35 kV Berezivka Substation, AR Crimea

🔥35 kV Slovianske Substation (repeat strike), AR Crimea

🔥35 kV Kumove Substation, AR Crimea

🔥35 kV Shturm Perekopu Substation, Illinka, AR Crimea

🔥35 kV Mykhailivka Substation, AR Crimea

🔥35 kV Voinka Substation, AR Crimea

🔥35 kV Vyshneva Substation, AR Crimea

🔥DE-09 Substation, Donetsk

🔥Electrical substation, Arapivka, Luhansk Oblast

🔥Electrical substation, Andrivka, Zaporizhzhia Oblast

🔥Electrical substation, Yevsuh, Luhansk Oblast

🔥Electrical substation, Bilmak, Zaporizhzhia Oblast

🔥Electrical substation, Orikhove, Donetsk Oblast

🔥Electrical substation, Bunhe, Donetsk Oblast

🔥Electrical substation, Druzhne, Zaporizhzhia Oblast

🔥Electrical substation, Raikhenfeld, Zaporizhzhia Oblast

🔥Electrical substation, Vesele, Donetsk Oblast

🔥Electrical substation, Myronivskyi, Donetsk Oblast

🔥Electrical substation, Verkhnia Pokrovka, Luhansk Oblast

🔥Electrical substation, Nova Tarasivka, Kharkiv Oblast

🔥Electrical substation, Oborotnivka, Luhansk Oblast

🔥Electrical substation, Prymorskyi Posad, Zaporizhzhia Oblast

🔥Gas Distribution Station, Dmytrivka, Zaporizhzhia Oblast

• 414th Brigade, USF “Magyar’s Birds”

• 412th Brigade, USF “Nemesis”

• 9th Brigade, USF

• 20th Brigade, USF “K-2”

• 413th Separate Regiment, USF “Raid”

• 429th Brigade, USF “Achilles”

• @1usc_army

• “Phoenix” State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, USF Grouping

• 427th Brigade, USF “Rarog”

We will stand.

Moscow will fall.

USF online scoreboard “PIDRAKHUYKA”

According to OSINT account Exilenova+, the balloons carried both “Hornet-2” interceptor drones and kamikaze FPV drones equipped with Starlink satellite communications.

A downed FPV drone can reportedly be seen beside the road in a released photo.

Company representatives demonstrated new technologies for conducting warfare to him.

After the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, demand for such systems increased sharply.

In July, Quantum Systems raised $1.2 billion in investments, and its valuation reached about $8 billion.

"During the war, we are achieving an important result – 15 agreements between companies in our industries, between German and Ukrainian businesses. And this is very important – joint production, jobs, and major orders for industry, first and foremost German industry, but Ukrainian industry as well. Strong agreements.

And importantly, Ukraine is also helping Germany. We are sharing our experience, our technologies, our production capabilities – everything that has contributed to our resilience – with representatives of German business.

Thank you, Friedrich, for your support. I thank German businesses for showing everyone that together we are much stronger."

On Territorial Defense Day, Minister of Defence Evgeniy Khmara congratulated Ukraine's warriors.

Today, the Territorial Defense Forces are an integral part of Ukraine's Defense Forces, built on the strength of volunteers. They proved their effectiveness in the hardest periods of the war, and they keep proving it now.

We value your service. We are grateful to every warrior and veteran of the Territorial Defense Forces.

We honor those who gave their lives for Ukraine. We must be worthy of their memory. Always.

Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦

04.10.2026