Kateryna Bondar

Senior Fellow, Wadhwani AI Center
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Kateryna Bondar is a senior fellow with the Wadhwani AI Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Before joining CSIS, she was an adviser to the government of Ukraine, where she was responsible for implementation of reforms in defense, the financial sector, and innovation ecosystem development. From 2019–2020, she was a fellow of the Ukrainian Emerging Leaders Program at Stanford University. Prior to that, she was a senior project manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she managed technical assistance projects implemented in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. From 2014–2018, Kateryna was a project manager in the National Reforms Council under the president of Ukraine and the Reform Support Team at the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine. Prior to working in the public sector, she held a position of financial control manager at Microsoft. She has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in international relations from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

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Russia Is Building Tomorrow’s War Machine

Russia is reshaping the future of warfare in real time, building AI-enabled command and control and deploying autonomous weapons without the ethical constraints that govern Western militaries, writes CSIS's Kateryna Bondar in The New York Times.

Commentary by Kateryna Bondar — April 21, 2026

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Unpacking Russian Military AI with Kateryna Bondar

In this episode, we are joined by Wadhwani AI Center fellow Kateryna Bondar to discuss her recent reports on Russia's military AI, "How Russia Is Building a Sovereign Drone Ecosystem for AI-Driven Autonomy" and "How Russia Is Reshaping Command and Control for AI-Enabled Warfare."

Podcast Episode by Gregory C. Allen and Kateryna Bondar — April 14, 2026

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What Are the Unintended Consequences of the U.S.-Iran Conflict for Defense and Security?

An audio version of ⁠What Are the Unintended Consequences of the U.S.-Iran Conflict for Defense and Security?⁠, a new Commentary by CSIS's Nikita Shah, Emily Harding, Daniel Byman, Eliot A. Cohen, Kateryna Bondar, Jonathan Burchell, and Mark F. Cancian. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

Podcast Episode by CSIS Scholars — April 9, 2026

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