During Américo Martins’ visit to Ukraine, TDC supported a set of meetings focused on the evolving military situation and the strategic logic shaping the war in 2026. Américo Martins, Senior International Correspondent and International Affairs Analyst at CNN Brasil, continued sharing field-based insights with Brazilian audiences while recording interviews that will also be adapted for Portuguese-speaking viewers.
Américo Martins met with Maksym Skrypchenko, President of the Transatlantic Dialogue Center, to discuss how the war has evolved since 2022 and why Ukraine is increasingly shifting from a primarily defensive posture toward scaling long-range strike capabilities to slow Russia’s advance and degrade its military-industrial base. The conversation also highlighted Ukraine’s rapid innovation cycle and a key operational logic of the current stage of the war: overloading Russian air defenses through mass drone launches to create windows for strikes on high-value targets, including military production sites, logistics routes (including the land corridor to Crimea), and oil infrastructure that funds the war. This broader reality is reflected in CNN Brasil’s coverage of drone warfare in Ukraine, including “Rússia faz maior ataque de drones contra a Ucrânia desde início da guerra”.
Américo also met with Vladyslav Urubkov, Division Lead at the Military Department of the Come Back Alive Foundation, to discuss how the organization scaled from a volunteer initiative into a trusted operator supporting frontline units through transparent procurement and strict reporting. The discussion covered current priorities — communications equipment, vehicles and logistics, authorized infantry weapons, large-scale drone procurement, and growing work on unmanned ground robotic systems — and how the battlefield has shifted toward a drone-dominated environment.
The meetings were coordinated by TDC’s Spain and Latin America Cooperation Program team: Oleksandr Slyvchuk (Coordinator),Alina Rohach (Project Manager), Bohdana Batsko (Project Assistant), and Maksym Volik (Project Assistant).
Este proyecto contó con el apoyo de la International Renaissance Foundation.