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Oleksandr Tartachnyi

Oleksandr Tartachnyi is a Ukrainian journalist. He has been working in journalism for over seven years. For five years, he worked on investigations at NGL.media, where he covered corruption in public procurement, violations in urban planning, and with the beginning of a full-scale invasion, war crimes. He is also the author of a technology blog at robot_dreams and has collaborated with publications such as Ukrainer, the scientific magazine "Kunsht," and the entrepreneurship and technology media outlet SPEKA. He has a master's degree in journalism from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.

Articles

The Invisible War: Inside the electronic warfare arms race that could shape course of war in Ukraine

by Oleksandr Tartachnyi
When Ukraine received Excalibur artillery shells in March 2022 from the U.S. shortly after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, it was immediately the military’s weapon of choice. Thanks to their GPS navigation system, these expensive munitions had a high-precision flight trajectory and could be used in urban combat. Fast forward one year to March 2023 and the Excaliburs suddenly started missing their targets. Russian electronic jamming, which overloads a receiver with noise or false in