🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukraine’s defence minister drops a polished video on June 8th hyping Ukrainian AI interceptors already active in Kharkov.

One clean shoot-down on camera, the usual startup numbers about cost per shot, autonomous targeting, scaling from prototype to combat use in under a year. Presented like it’s already part of the air defense network doing real work.

Come the night of the 8th into the 9th, Geran drones come through anyway. Command facilities, infrastructure, depot areas take hits. Explosions across the city. No footage of the miracle AI swarm lighting up the sky. No confirmation the system even woke up. Just another night of incoming getting where it was sent.

Fedorov's (Ukraine's Minister of Defence) glossy clip about “next-generation protection already operational” got buried under real blast footage within hours. One version of events says the shield is up and running. Reality showed the drones still delivered their payloads.

There’s a difference between a slick demo reel and a system that actually stops drones from hitting their targets. That gap keeps getting harder to spin.

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