Welcome to the world in 10 in an increasingly uncertain world.
This is the Times daily podcast dedicated to global security Today with me,
Stuart Willey and Alex Dibble.
The global security focus is shifting as the week goes on to Ukraine.
Western defence ministers have been meeting in Brussels with Pete Hegseth,
the new US Defense Secretary,
telling them that the US will no longer be the guarantor of security in Europe.
There is a lot to analyze there and we will be doing
that tomorrow when we will also look ahead to the Munich Security conference which starts on Friday.
Today we're still talking about Ukraine
because the Times Maxim Tucker has been to Kharkiv to see robots.
Robots Ukraine has built and sent into combat to fight against Russian soldiers.
Could this be the future of not just this war, but war in general?
Maxim is back in Kyiv now and is speaking to us from there today.
Maxim, it's a striking idea, isn't it?
A platoon of robots rolling onto the battlefield.
What exactly have you been to see?
So there's a brigade called the Harti Brigade which has been pioneering some of Ukraine's modern warfare approaches,
including adopting NATO standards for the entire brigade.
And they have been experimenting with land robots which are remote controlled,