Ukraine has now trained 10,000 drone pilots as Kyiv seeks to exploit its technological edge over occupying Russian troops, ahead of the long-awaited Ukrainian spring counteroffensive Kyiv hopes can liberate significant swaths of territory. Fedorov told the Associated Press last year that fully autonomous combat drones represent the "logical and inevitable next step" in Ukrainian weapons research and noted that Kyiv has been undertaking "a lot of R&D in this direction. And also, as I say often—this war is a war of drones, they are the super weapon here