{
  "id": 9508822,
  "title": "Ukraine war speeding lethal race toward fully autonomous drones",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/ukraine-war-speeding-lethal-race-toward-fully-autonomous-drones",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-24T06:50:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/09/ukraine-war-speeding-lethal-race-toward-fully-autonomous-drones/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A battlefield dominated by fully autonomous drones capable of selecting and engaging targets without human intervention sounds like a dystopian sci-fi plot. And while that scenario has not yet arrived, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has moved modern warfare a notch down that road. In recent years, both nations have deployed semi-autonomous drones in […] The post Ukraine war speeding…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}