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On August 26, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree according to which American entrepreneur Elon Musk received the Order of Freedom, Ukraine’s highest award for foreigners. The wording of the decree: «for outstanding personal merits in protecting people’s lives and freedom, and developing relations between the peoples of Ukraine and the United States of America.» And what about the awards for Ukrainian IT workers?

A visual social platform, Mimeon, is being launched in Ukraine — a domestic alternative to Pinterest and DeviantArt. Its main uniqueness lies in the complete absence of a language barrier: there are no text captions or hashtags. The platform offers an endless canvas of art, where categorization and search are implemented using artificial intelligence and vector databases, and communication occurs exclusively through images.

The government has temporarily appointed Oleksiy Tomashuk as the head of the state agency PlayCity after Gennady Novikov was dismissed from this position. Prior to this, Tomashuk served as the CDTO of this agency, that is, he was its deputy head for digital transformation.

In April of this year, I opened the Discord community for our product My Drama and saw a message: «I won’t know how to speak properly, but I will be able to order a beer in Ukraine.» It was written by an American woman who watches our vertical series. When launching the community, we thought first and foremost about the product. We wanted to increase audience retention, increase the organic growth of My Drama, create a place where viewers could discuss their favorite series between releases, share their impressions, and return to the product not only for new episodes. In other words, build a strong community around the brand.

After the launch of the MCP server at Silpo, Ukrainian IT professionals have already begun testing this scenario in practice. Artificial intelligence has proven to be a good shopping companion.

In the 17th episode of «AI Show», hosts dev.ua CEO Stas Yurasov, artificial intelligence apologist Oleksiy Minakov, and AI realist, UCloud COO Serhiy Kolesnychenko analyze the hottest development trend.

Ukrainian DefTech has long ceased to be a market for individual enthusiasts and volunteer developments. Companies compete for orders, engineers, technology, and speed of scaling — and at the same time have to constantly adapt products to the real conditions of war. The guest of the new issue of «7 Questions for the DefTech CEO» is Kostyantyn Gushcha, co-owner and CEO of AIDrones. We talked about the challenges Ukrainian manufacturers face today, where the market is most competitive, and what the next stage of DefenseTech’s development could be.

You did everything right. The pages are fast, the meta tags are in place, the structured data is there, Google Search Console shows an increase in impressions. And when you ask ChatGPT about your niche, your product is not in the answer. And it's not because you didn't do a good job on SEO. It's just that the Google search robot and the OpenAI robot have different capabilities, and your project fell right into this gap. My Laravel developers and I have been encountering this issue regularly lately. At first, it seemed like it was an isolated incident and a problem somewhere in a specific project. Then I looked at it across several clients and realized that it was a systemic issue: the cause was a single technical decision that was made at the start and then almost never revised. Below I'll explain what exactly asymmetry is, how it relates to specific rendering modes in Laravel, and what to do about it. With numbers and a test you can do yourself in a minute.

Before the war, Andriy Zhupnyk developed a business in Lviv that included renting musical equipment, rehearsal facilities, recording studios, and his own concert venue. In 2022, he voluntarily joined the army, and after demobilization, he decided not to return to business, but to try his hand at IT. He studied at the «IT for Veterans» program from EPAM Ukraine, mastered React and AWS, and eventually received an offer to join the company. He currently works as a Junior Software Engineer on the Digital FoodBank volunteer project.

It all started in February 2025 in the small town of Brody in the Lviv region. An employee of a local company decided to check his Telegram account during his regular workday. But instead of the usual chats, the app greeted him with a blank login screen. A sudden logout occurred from all devices at once. An attempt to re-enter the login and password failed — someone had already locked the virtual door from the inside. A couple of minutes later, a colleague came into the office: “What are you, borrowing money? I just received a request from you to transfer 5,000 hryvnias.” Then a call came from another acquaintance, who had already been sent the card number for the transfer, and a friend wrote on Facebook with a screenshot of a request for 7,500 hryvnias. This story (which later turned into a criminal case in the Brody District Court) ended relatively well: the man quickly called his friends, and no one lost money. However, this is a classic case of how, in a few seconds of inattention, a work messenger turns into a weapon in the hands of IT fraudsters. Together with the Ukrainian Interbank Association of Payment System Members " EMA " , the dev.ua editorial team continues to talk about the most popular fraudulent schemes on the Internet. And the trap of hacking a TG account, unfortunately, happens often. So what to do?

SEO has long ceased to be about buying links on exchanges and adding keywords to the text like «buy a laptop in Kiev cheaply.» Now it’s not just not working — for this, Google’s algorithms give sites an instant one-way ticket to the end of the search results.

Harvesting in a large agricultural holding involves 7,000 units of machinery in simultaneous motion: combines, grain trucks, loaders. Each machine generates data streams every second — GPS, fuel level sensors, engine speed and temperature, auger, loosening depth, wind speed, and air temperature. Altogether, these are tens of millions of signals every day.

What do the "unbeatable" Russian hypersonics destroyed by a state-of-the-art Su-57 fighter jet and a successful assault without a single infantryman have in common? All of these are modern achievements of the Ukrainian army's ingenuity, already recorded in military history textbooks. We have collected the main achievements of the Ukrainian army, in which Ukraine became a pioneer in the world.

A country’s independence today depends not only on weapons, energy, or manufacturing. It also depends on whose software a business runs on, where data is stored, who creates technologies for the front, and how quickly Ukrainian companies can replace critical foreign solutions. In this special project, we have gathered companies and teams that are building this technological foundation — from system software and FPV drones with auto-target acquisition to quantum algorithms, inclusive teams, and underground schools. These are solutions and technologies that are already working today, and about developments on which the Ukrainian economy and its security will depend tomorrow.

Today is Independence Day. Over the past 35 years, Ukraine has changed its sound — from the creak of modems to the hum of drones, from home servers to Ukrainian cloud data storage.

Oleksandr Filippov, a veteran of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who dedicated 30 months to the war, was demobilized and is returning to civilian life and building a career as a developer.

«Generation 91» from FUIB — four Ukrainian brands, four symbols of Independence and one common goal — to help save lives

Former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov is planning a trip to the United States, where he intends to attract funding for new DefenseTech projects and Ukrainian startups. Among them is an investment fund. However, no political meetings are planned in Washington.

A task that used to take a week now takes two days. But that’s not the most interesting thing. I didn’t buy Zapier, Make, n8n or any other automation platform for this. Over five months, I gradually connected the services I use every day via API and wrote small scripts for them. They run locally on my Mac, and Claude Code runs them in the right order.

In 2023, the Ukrainian military first launched the Plastun NRC onto the battlefield. Every kilometer that the Plastun robot covers instead of a military one is the saved life of an infantryman who did not have to walk under the enemy’s sights with a 30-kilogram backpack. This is a saved crew who did not come under attack from a Russian FPV drone. However, all this time, the Ukrainian military on the front line faced a severe limitation. The declared passport range of the Plastun was 25 km, but the reality of the fighting turned it into only a 10–12 km radius of action, after which the robot had to return to recharge. Because of this, routes had to be laid along the shortest line — and at the front it often passes under the fire control of mortars and drones. The small range also forced charging points to be kept closer to the front line, and people regularly risked their lives by going there to service the equipment. This summer, Lviv engineers from PAWELL Battery found a way out of this technological trap, increasing the range of the Plastun fourfold — to 100 km.

Almost two years after the release of STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl, it finally received its first major story expansion, along with a massive update to version 2.0. The game received many improvements, brought back old features from previous games in the series, and most importantly, expanded the story of the Zone and Skif. After a few hours of marathon play, dev.ua shares its impressions of the updated STALKER and answers the question: does the "Price of Hope" expansion really bring players back to the Zone?

Marketing is no longer just about leads. In companies where it is linked to revenue metrics (CAC, LTV, ROMI), the costs of customer acquisition are on average lower and profits are higher. The article explains how to move from «advertising for the sake of advertising» to managing financial results. Marketing is often treated as an expense item and is the first to be cut during a crisis. However, according to McKinsey research, companies that increase marketing investments during periods of instability end up winning significant market share from competitors who have chosen austerity and silence.

Stands worth thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars. Large halls with an audience almost like during concerts. Speakers from the Ukrainian miltech sector as «stars». Vivid field tests of new equipment samples, no less vivid photos and videos on social networks. Miltech events have been really big in recent years, as the industry itself has become. As sensitive as this topic is in terms of security, marketing here, as in any other business, has been the main driver. However, on July 24, something happened that put events in the miltech sector on hold — Russian missiles attacked participants in a defense event near Kyiv, killing more than 10 people and injuring about 100.

Ukraine already has what many countries are only planning to build — a working digital state, which millions of people use every day. According to official data, the «Diya» application has over 20 million users and unites dozens of government services — from digital documents to starting a business. The Prozorro system has become one of the most famous examples of digitalization of public procurement in the world and is used as a model of transparency at the international level. The open data ecosystem has given impetus to hundreds of services — from checking counterparties to market analytics. And it is important that we are not talking about pilots or concepts. This is already an infrastructure that works under real load, is scalable and solves the daily tasks of citizens and businesses.

The Ukrainian IT market has encountered a new wave of sophisticated online fraud. Criminals are actively parasitizing on the artificial intelligence trend, creating the image of progressive international startups. They lure job seekers with attractive conditions, conduct quite convincing interviews, and at the onboarding stage, they drain money from bank cards under the pretext of purchasing corporate software or access to the internal knowledge base.

After being laid off, a Ukrainian IT specialist said he was tired of looking for work in the industry, and asked electricians what salary they could expect and which specializations were currently in greatest demand.

Uninterrupted internet for the occupiers and the ability to control drones or even cruise missiles in real time hundreds of kilometers deep into Ukraine — this is exactly the strategic threat posed by the Russian satellite system "Rassvet". The Russians are creating a militarized analogue of Starlink, which will allow them to select targets right during the drone's flight. We analyzed this threat together with aviation expert Anatoly Khrapchinsky to understand what we were facing and, most importantly, how to counter it.

Mykhailo Fedorov recorded an address to the Ukrainian people on the eve of the appointment of a new defense minister. In it, he talks about the protracted war, the future of Ukrainian democracy, corruption, the crisis of public administration, and the need for a new social contract between the state and citizens. The appeal appeared against the backdrop of personnel changes in the Ministry of Defense. On August 18, President Volodymyr Zelensky submitted to the Verkhovna Rada the candidacy of Major General Yevheniy Khmara for the position of Minister of Defense. At the same time, the head of state submitted the candidacy of Andriy Sybiga for the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs. Khmara is currently serving as Minister of Defense. To be appointed to the position of Minister, he must resign from military service, as the law requires that the Minister of Defense be a civilian. In his speech, Fedorov said that Ukraine cannot remain in a temporary regime if the war continues for years, and democracy must not become «hostage to Russia.» He also called for greater accountability of the authorities, the fight against corruption, and changes to the system of public administration. Below is the full text of Mikhail Fedorov’s address .

When it comes to cryptocurrency, most people imagine one scenario: buy Bitcoin and wait for it to go up in price. This is indeed the most well-known way to interact with digital assets, but it is far from the only one.

This year's Ukrainian Games Festival 2026 on Steam pleased us more than ever with the number of new announcements of Ukrainian projects. Ukrainian studios continue to boldly experiment with genres and themes, moving away from template solutions. From nostalgic adventures in a village at the beginning of the 2000s to hardcore miltech simulators of NRK operators and post-apocalyptic mythpunk - the industry definitely has something to surprise. We have put together for you a selection of completely new projects that first appeared at the festival and which are already worth adding to your wishlists.