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Peter Schrijver
@psguu.bsky.social
PhD student Faculty Military Sciences Breda | Leiden University | interests: influence, intelligence, drones | BA History Utrecht, MA Military Strategic Studies Breda

Latest article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850607.2025.2522222
Interessant rapport van @hcss.bsky.social

Over 🇺🇦 omgang met de oorlog, niet alleen de krijgsmacht, maar ook veel ‘citizen-soldier-activists’. Niet per se ingekapseld in de strijdkrachten, maar juist daarom snel in staat vernieuwende stappen te maken op drone- en EOV-gebied.
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February 7, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Focus grootschalige inzet van drones ligt op Russisch-Oekraïense oorlog, maar inmiddels is toepassing al veel breder. Voor surveillance en strikes. Zie o.a. deze berichtgeving in context van oorlog in Soedan:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/w...

www.reuters.com/business/aer...
February 7, 2026 at 9:48 AM
‘Telegram wird intensiver von jüngeren, höher gebildeten und politisch engagierten Personen genutzt sowie von Menschen, die Nachrichtenupdates suchen, insbesondere zu lokalen Ereignissen. Die Kanäle der Plattform sind zu wichtigen Nachrichtenquellen geworden’.
laender-analysen.de/ukraine-anal...
Ukraine-Analysen | Länder-Analysen
Die Länder-Analysen bieten regelmäßig kompetente Einschätzungen aktueller politischer, wirtschaftlicher, sozialer und kultureller Entwicklungen in Ostmitteleuropa und der post-sowjetischen Region.
laender-analysen.de
February 7, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Bundeswehr in 🇱🇹

"A comrade phones home, speaks for half an hour, and then gets a call from an unknown number. He answers – and hears his own conversation from earlier, recorded and played back," Joshua Krebs described the experience in his book, Inside Bundeswehr.

www.euronews.com/2026/02/07/n...
No front line: Russia's hybrid pressure on German army in Lithuania
The German army brigade in Lithuania is not under fire, but it is under hybrid attack. Soldiers report mysterious phone calls, and drones appear to be spying on manoeuvres. How should the Bundeswehr a...
www.euronews.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:43 AM
"Al het verkeer naar de luchthavens in Lublin en Rzeszów in het zuidoosten van Polen werd in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag gedurende enkele uren stilgelegd vanwege Russische aanvallen op Oekraïne”.

Rzeszów is het belangrijkste knooppunt voor de westerse steun aan 🇺🇦.
”All trafik till flygplatserna i Lublin och i Rzeszow i sydöstra Polen stoppades under ett antal timmar natten mot lördag på grund av ryska attacker mot Ukraina.”

Och fortsätter liknande attacker får de stänga flygplatserna var och varannan natt hädanefter?
Polska flygplatser stängdes efter attacker i Ukraina – Senaste nytt om kriget i Ukraina
Rysslands storskaliga invasion av Ukraina har pågått sedan den 24 februari 2022, då ryska trupper anföll Ukraina från flera håll. Ryssland ockuperar flera regioner i östra och södra Ukraina. Här hitta...
www.svt.se
February 7, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Reposted by Peter Schrijver
Yup. Witkoff and Kushner are using cheap Russian humiliation tactics. But let it be known that the whole "peace process" is as much of a useless joke as these two clowns.
What Europe's talking about this morning: at the UAE "summit," the Ukrainians were represented by professional diplomats attired in suits, where as the Trump White House was represented by mob-connected real estate executives dressed like they got lost on the way to the gym.
February 7, 2026 at 5:37 AM
🛰️💻 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 “𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻”, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻
‘The report highlights a recurring Russian pattern: cyber is treated inside a broader ‘information confrontation’ logic, integrated, not separated’. www.foi.se/rapporter/ra...
February 6, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Nog even voor de goede orde: GRU-generaal Alexeyev is beschoten en gewond afgevoerd naar een ziekenhuis. Vooralsnog nog geen bevestiging van overlijden. UA diensten stil over deze aanval. Aanval in december 2024 op RF generaal Kirillov in Moskou wel opgeëist door de SBU.
theins.press/en/news/289161
Top GRU general Vladimir Alexeyev shot several times in Moscow attack
An unidentified assailant fired several shots at Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alexeyev, the first deputy head of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, Russian news agencies reported (1, 2, 3) earlier today,...
theins.press
February 6, 2026 at 12:41 PM
1/ Shahed-drones met mesh modems: deze langeafstandsdrones zijn niet voorgeprogrammeerd op een coördinaat, maar kunnen tijdens de vlucht bijgestuurd worden naar een gelegenheidsdoel. Dit artikel legt het vrij simpel uit. www.arsenal.eu/p/ukr-russia...
UKR: Russia using mesh networks to enhance Shaheds
Russia has devised a way to make Shahed drones exponentially more destructive, with operators able to remotely control them, evade air defense, and even use mounted weapons from more than 600 km away.
www.arsenal.eu
February 6, 2026 at 7:19 AM
‘Next, we used drones to establish fire control, and — without even deploying troops — we mined the border between Lithuania and Poland. Only then did we send in troops, along with organizations such as the Red Cross and a host of civilians,’ Gabuev explained.

meduza.io/en/feature/2...
He played Putin and broke NATO in three days. Alexander Gabuev, the scholar behind an alarming wargame, tells Meduza how he did it. — Meduza
Last December, the newspaper Die Welt partnered with military researchers at Helmut Schmidt University to simulate a Russian invasion of NATO. The exercise involved 16 participants, including security...
meduza.io
February 5, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Voor het eerst sinds bijna 5 mndn een uitwisseling.

🇺🇦 kreeg 150 krijgsgevangenen en 7 burgers terug. De meeste vrijgelaten 🇺🇦 militairen zaten al vast sinds voorjaar ‘22 na de Russische inname van het Azovstal-complex in Mariupol, meldt de SBU.

Impressie van de vrijlating. x.com/servicessu/s...
February 5, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Gewoon even kijken: over de gorilla Toni in Kyiv.
Ein kleiner Ofen hält Gorilla Toni warm. Wenn die Temperatur in seinem Gehege auf unter 20 Grad fallen sollte, würde er sterben. Egal, wie heftig Russland die ukrainische Hauptstadt Kyjiw angreift: Pflegerin Valentyna kommt zur Arbeit, um das zu verhindern. Unsere Reportage aus dem Zoo.
February 5, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Greep uit de jaarcijfers 2025 van de 🇺🇦 drone-eenheid 412 Nemesis. Ze staan op de 5e plek vwb getroffen doelen (geverifieerd met beeldmateriaal).

Soms vraag ik me af of we hier de schaal van de Russisch-Oekraïense oorlog wel voldoende in beeld hebben. www.instagram.com/p/DT5ASCZjJY...
February 4, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Ondertussen in Europa:

‘North Korean personnel are located in Russia’s Kursk region, from where they carry out attacks on Ukrainian border communities’, 🇺🇦 military intelligence directorate, HUR, reports. t.me/DIUkraine/7786
Головне управління розвідки МО України
❗️Удари артилерії та застосування дронів — як росія використовує контингент армії КНДР у війні проти України? ГУР МО України інформує — контингент армії КНДР продовжує брати участь у злочинній війні ...
t.me
February 4, 2026 at 6:03 PM
‘Some former Western drone pilots come out here to tell me that they’re the best drone pilots in the world because they’ve got 400 hours of drone flying on some training ground. Some of my 22-year-old Ukrainian test pilots have 400 or 500 kills under their belt’.⤵️
Fascinating interview with a drone manufacturer in Ukraine: On Western hubris and the defence industry.

Some of their arming devices were two coat hangers pointing out the front of the drone. Reminds me of the ingenuity of the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. www.euractiv.com/interview/in...
INTERVIEW: Ukrainian drone manufacturer on Western hubris and the defence industry | Euractiv
Some of their arming devices were two coat hangers pointing out the front of the drone
www.euractiv.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:59 PM
1/2 De hackers van de HUR: Black Owl. In de beste Oekraïense traditie niet per se staatsgelieerd, maar wel samenwerkend met de militaire inlichtingendienst.

'Since January 2024, a collective of Ukrainian hackers has been working in conjunction ...
www.intelligenceonline.fr/europe-russi...
Russie/Ukraine • Aux origines du groupe de hackers préféré du renseignement militaire ukrainien
Black Owl Team, les pirates d'élite de Kiev (2/3) – Depuis janvier 2024, un collectif de hackers ukrainien travaille en liaison avec le principal service de renseignement militaire du pays, le GUR.
www.intelligenceonline.fr
February 3, 2026 at 6:24 PM
'This report examines how drone warfare in UA has reshaped modern air defence. The central finding is that the large-scale use of cheap drones has exposed serious weaknesses in existing defense concepts that rely on small numbers of expensive interceptors'. www.easterncircles.com/article-janu...
February 3, 2026 at 3:22 PM
‘Ukraine claims 820,000 Russian targets hit in 2025

All these are “video-confirmed” drone strikes, with the highest number targeting Russian troops – nearly 240,000’

www.army-technology.com/news/ukraine...
Ukraine claims 820,000 Russian targets hit in 2025 - Army Technology
Ukraine has claimed to have inflicted a total of 819,737 successful drone strikes in 2025, eliminating various Russian military assets.
www.army-technology.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Training, hoe om te gaan met aanvallen van Shahed-/Geran-drones.

‘For the past week, two small experimental aircraft have been operating off the coast of Savannah, Georgia. Their job is to replicate long-range kamikaze drones similar to the Iranian Shahed-136’.

www.twz.com/air/these-pl...
February 3, 2026 at 12:51 PM
‘Donbas im Fokus, Saporischschja im Blick: Die militärische Entwicklung des russisch-ukrainischen Krieges in 2025 und ein Ausblick auf 2026’

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Donbas im Fokus, Saporischschja im Blick: Die militärische Entwicklung des russisch-ukrainischen Krieges in 2025 und ein Ausblick auf 2026 | Länder-Analysen
laender-analysen.de
February 2, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Proliferatie

‘[drone] technology is shaping one of the world’s most catastrophic wars, which has displaced an estimated 12 million people’.

‘..drones are now doing much of the fighting in 🇸🇩, firing missiles on fighters, but also hitting hospitals and power plants’

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/w...
The Secret Egyptian Air Base Behind Sudan’s Drone War
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Reposted by Peter Schrijver
🇺🇦 battlefield tactics: drones and artillery

1/ ‘Ukraine relies on extensive “kill zones” anchored by small, squad-sized units in fortified positions. Drones continuously patrol the kill zones, detecting any Russian infiltration and enabling rapid targeting’.
www.forbes.com/sites/vikram...
Ukraine’s Battlefield Defense Is Forcing Russia To Adapt Its Tactics
Ukraine is using drone-based kill zones and attrition tactics to exhaust Russia’s offensive, forcing Moscow to adapt with robots and small-unit assaults.
www.forbes.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:15 PM
‘How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy
The fusion of agentic AI and LLMs marks a new frontier in information warfare’

www.science.org/action/downl...
How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy
The fusion of agentic AI and LLMs marks a new frontier in information warfare
www.science.org
February 2, 2026 at 1:28 PM
‘Russia’s invasion of 🇺🇦 marks the 1st large-scale conflict in which commercial satellite systems—especially low-Earth orbit (LEO) communications and commercial remote sensing systems—have functioned as core battlefield infrastructure rather than auxiliary support’.
jamestown.org/pla-assessme...
PLA Assessments on the Centrality of Space Power in Ukraine - Jamestown
Executive Summary: Editor’s note: This is the final installment in a four-part series on the lessons that the People’s Republic of China has learned from observing Russia’s war in Ukraine. The first t...
jamestown.org
February 2, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Defensie-adviseur Serhii ‘Flash’ Bezkrestnov over de aanval met Shahed-drones op een bus met Oekraïense mijnwerkers bij Ternivka in de Dnipropetrovsk-oblast. kyivindependent.com/at-least-12-...
February 1, 2026 at 7:22 PM