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Ukrainian tech entrepreneur, backend and AI engineer Igor Karas announced the relaunch of his technology service Rail-X, which helps drivers receive information about the status of railroad crossings in real time and make route decisions.

Ukrainian startup FPV Battleground has created a combat FPV drone simulator that has already sold over 10,000 times on Steam, with about half of the users coming from outside Ukraine. The game simulates real-world scenarios for using FPV drones on the battlefield: the operator must find a target, take into account the effects of electronic warfare, and execute an attack. The simulator is available on Steam and the Epic Games Store. The civilian version costs $10, and the developers provide free keys for military users. The project is also entering the international startup scene: the FPV Battleground team made it to the top 20 of Founders Battle at the TechChill technology conference, where they are presenting the product to investors.

The Ukrainian market has been operating in a full-scale war for five years, and the IT industry is no exception. If earlier the choice of a cooperation model between an individual entrepreneur, a gig contract, or a staff was mostly a matter of taxes and flexibility, today it also determines the legal status of a specialist during mobilization. There is still a misconception on the market that a gig contract gives the right to an official deferral for a specialist, but in fact it does not provide for such guarantees, since it is of a civil law, not a labor nature. As a result, a paradoxical situation arises: some IT specialists who previously chose flexible models of cooperation are now asking to be transferred to the staff under the Labor Code. What is the difference between a gig contract and an employment contract, what are the nuances of working on a staff, and how are companies changing the model of cooperation with teams today? Let’s figure it out in order.