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sendatoday at 1:03 PM7 repliesview on HN

Is the Kremlin technologically useless? How are we not seeing insane attacks on Ukraine via Agents?

Or is this largely a fabrication, in regards to the "who", in an attempt to garner more acclaim in the hope of sustaining funding.


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herculity275today at 1:08 PM

I believe both sides of the war are now using AI on various levels of their offensive operations. Ukraine has great IT specialists too, and their military leadership is much younger.

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dgellowtoday at 1:23 PM

They very likely do, we only see in the news a very few events but you should assume it’s happening daily across the internet

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heaney-555today at 1:10 PM

These agent swarms are from inside OpenAI, with the safeguards built into the public API disabled.

Russia does not have access to this, and as with all western tech companies, AI providers do what they can to prevent Russian usage of their products at all.

As for open-source models, Russia's electricity grid is under severe strain with the Ukraine war, and only recently has it started building out serious sovereign compute capacity.

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marginalia_nutoday at 1:25 PM

Prigozhin falling out of a window was a not insignificant setback for their digital warfare capabilities.

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tokaitoday at 1:26 PM

Because they dont have the money for hardware or compute obviously.

micromacrofoottoday at 1:10 PM

what do you mean? they're using AI to kill people directly in Ukraine

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/world/europe/russia-drone...

ur-whaletoday at 1:35 PM

> How are we not seeing insane attacks on Ukraine via Agents?

You live on the wrong side of the fence to be able to read that kind of news.

Did you really believe you had access to an unmanipulated news stream in a time of war?

LOL.

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