AI models, trained with battlefield data from Ukraine, are set to be deployed in the UK to safeguard defence sites, railways, and energy plants. This initiative, part of a new agreement between London and Kyiv, aims to counter threats from protesters and foreign states.
The scheme will first be piloted at a UK defence site. It involves using AI-optimised sensors within buried fibre-optic cables to identify various types of movement, with the goal of detecting protesters or hostile state attacks.
Private companies will also be granted access to data from Ukraine’s Avengers AI lab, marking the first such agreement in the UK. Pilot projects have already been approved with British AI companies Sintela, Mind Foundry, and Skyral.
The government has indicated that if proven effective, this technology could be expanded for use at airports, prisons, railways, and energy infrastructure. The partnership will allow new UK security systems to be trained on operational drone datasets, strike mission footage, and flight profiles, potentially including Russian sabotage attempts against Ukrainian infrastructure.