Front line

I want to come to the politics in a moment, but show it.

Could you talk a little bit about the front lines elsewhere? There had been a lot of fighting in the quarter funds, as you said.

It now seems to have shifted to Blue Nile.

So what's happening? What are the front lines look like now?

Well, Richard, currently we're seeing several active fronts, and the RSF and its allies are trying to stretch the army across a much wider area.

They're still active fighting in North Kordofan and South Kordofan, and particularly in South Kordofan, the RSF has aligned with SPLM North, led by Abdelaziz Al-Hillou, and they've made significant progress.

In 2025, Mexican intelligence sent a confidential memo to Ukrainian intelligence to inform them that cartels had infiltrated their foreign fighting program.

They were recruiting foreign mercenaries and sending people over to Ukraine through private military companies to learn FPV drone tactics spend six months in Ukraine on the front lines, go back to Mexico and fly drones for the cartels.

Many of these Latin American foreign mercenaries were not in Ukraine to fight Russia or even for the paycheck.

They were there to learn FPV drone tactics.

I went to Ukraine to go to the very facilities where these individuals are learning high-level drone warfare.

What I found was a country that has become the biggest live training ground for drone warfare in history.

Okay, so basically as we get closer to the front lines, the GPS stops working and for some reason it ends up showing on the map as if we're in Latin America.

Basically, this is happening because Russians are redirecting it.

They open up the van and they find hundreds of kilos of explosives, TNT, C4, and a Hezbollah member of Lebanese parliament basically says, hey, that's ours.

We're actually bringing that to the front lines to use against the Israelis.

And the Lebanese government's like, yeah, we're not giving you guys like hundreds of explosives.

Like that's crazy, right? Where's the mandate? So you already have these ad hoc, essentially seizing of weaponry.

So just have to consider that.

And obviously longer than the Great Patriotic War as well.

So who are we kidding here? In any case, Conrad, obviously as Russia sees successes on the front lines towards these major cities, there's going to be big questions raised about what does the Russian Federation do about the coastline to secure it? As we are sitting at the mediation table anticipating signing something on Zelenskyy, Will there be some consideration given towards how exactly ships should conduct themselves in the Black Sea? Who should be policing this waterway? Which never in the past, I mean, since, I don't know, since the World Wars was never really in question that, you know, there should be some civil conduct in these maritime waters.

But unfortunately...

I can talk about our experience in Ukraine.

We have over 100 vehicles deployed running daily missions on the front lines of Ukraine right now.

And my biggest lesson learned is kind of the almost cliched saying that amateurs think strategy, professionals think logistics.

Logistics is an incredibly difficult problem for the Ukrainians right now because of the air threat.

And the front lines are, you know, a no man's land due to the FPV threat.

and so you don't want to be sending people there are soldiers sitting in foxholes right on the front lines that have been there for days and they need food they need water they need ammunition they need to pull casualties back from the front and so that logistics problem becomes a nightmare when you think about the air threat.

And so being able to team aerial drones that are providing your overhead surveillance for potential threats and then be able to take the people that would be running these resupply missions out of that harm's way and be able to move that I think we've moved a million pounds of material forward and have pulled back 100 casualties.

And that, I think, is really motivating at our company in that those are 100 lives that have actually been saved because you were able to get an autonomous robot in and out.