Ukraine wants to turn its vast stores of wartime data into a bargaining chip with its Western allies

""I can say that the demand for data is incredibly high, but at the moment, we are forming policy on how to organize this process correctly," said Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's digital minister, in an interview with Reuters published on Wednesday. But Fedorov's comments indicate Ukraine won't freely give out this data, which he called "priceless." Kyiv is "very carefully" considering how to share its records and footage with its allies, the minister said."

"Such data can be particularly useful for defense firms and governments hoping to build military-purpose artificial intelligence, especially for drone swarm technology. Ukraine's drone pilots have recorded vast stores of combat footage from first-person-view attack drones, providing insight into how each one navigates the battlefield and targets infantry, armored vehicles, artillery, and other assets. Many teams often observe their hits with reconnaissance drones that fly much higher and can offer a bird's-eye view of the drone attack."

Ukraine possesses deep repositories of battlefield data and footage accumulated over more than three and a half years of full-scale war. Demand for those datasets from allies and defense firms is very high, and a formal policy is being developed to govern controlled sharing. Kyiv regards the records as priceless and will share them carefully, treating them as a strategic card to build win-win relations. The collections include extensive first-person-view attack-drone footage and higher-altitude reconnaissance imagery, offering detailed behavioral data useful for training military AI and advancing drone swarm technologies. Drones now account for the majority of recent battlefield hits.

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