Kateryna Bondar

Senior Fellow, Wadhwani AI Center
Kateryna Bondar

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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Learning Without Bleeding: China’s Lessons from the Russia-Ukraine Drone War

China is using the Russia-Ukraine drone war as a military laboratory. Lilly Min-Chen Lee and Kateryna Bondar trace how quickly Chinese analysts identify battlefield innovations and how the PLA translates the lessons into training, procurement, hardware, and force structure.

Commentary by Lilly Min-Chen Lee and Kateryna Bondar — October 7, 2026

The Impossible State

What is North Korea learning from Russia's war in Ukraine?

Dr. Victor Cha, Ms. Kate Bondar, and Mr. Bruce Klingner discussed how the Ukraine war is reshaping warfare, what North Korea may learn from Russia, and the implications for Korean Peninsula security. 

Podcast Episode by Victor Cha and Kateryna Bondar — July 1, 2026

The Impossible State Podcast
Russian Roulette

How Drone Innovation Reshapes the Battlefield in Ukraine with Kate Bondar

Max and Maria sit down with Kate Bondar, Senior Fellow at CSIS’s Wadhwani AI Center and expert on autonomous warfare, to discuss the role of drones in combat in Ukraine, including Russia’s innovation tactics and takeaways from the recent increase in strikes on Moscow and Kyiv. 

Podcast Episode by Max Bergmann, Maria Snegovaya, and Kateryna Bondar — June 26, 2026

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Defining Autonomy: Why Software, Not Drones, Will Decide the Next War

As the Pentagon revises its autonomous weapons policy, Kateryna Bondar argues that the definition of an autonomous weapon system must extend beyond the effector to include the software orchestration layer where lethal decisions are increasingly made.

Brief by Kateryna Bondar and Matt Mande — June 10, 2026

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

The AI Policy Podcast

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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