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Met with the Lviv IT Cluster community.
We talked about the key challenges of the next stage of the war, asymmetric solutions for them, and the role of the Ukrainian IT industry in how Ukraine can gain a technological advantage on the battlefield.
Ukraine is now entering a new technological cycle of war. Russia has learned to deploy new solutions and scale them on the front much faster. So it is not enough to create strong developments — we need to move through the entire cycle faster than the enemy, from testing to battlefield scaling.
Our challenge as a country is to find a way to defeat Russia in the new technological cycle.
The next major transition is from drone warfare to mass robotics, sensorization, and autonomy. This is the next technological leap.
My main message to the IT industry: now is the time to enter these technologies and build new solutions.
Our team has already launched the Army of Robots. The next task is to find strong teams, help them test their solutions faster in real conditions, invest in the best, and scale what works.
Together with the IT industry we must create the next generation of technologies for war — and do it faster than Russia.