The Ukrainian military will make available millions of drone videos and other battlefield data to Ukrainian companies and the firms of its allies to help train artificial intelligence models, Ukraine’s minister of defense, Mykhailo Fedorov, said in a statement on Thursday.

Ukrainian drone videos have recorded attacks on soldiers, equipment such as vehicles and tanks and surveillance footage. These videos can be used to train A.I. models for automated targeting, according to experts on A.I. and warfare.

Allowing the use of genuine battlefield videos showing drones targeting people has raised ethical concerns. The International Committee of the Red Cross, which monitors rules of warfare, has opposed automated targeting systems without human oversight.

Mr. Fedorov said the data would be made available because “we must outperform Russia in every technological cycle” and “artificial intelligence is one of the key arenas of this competition.”

Ukraine has already used the data internally to train A.I. functions within its primary battlefield computer system, called Delta, the statement said.

Under the new policy, companies can train A.I. models on the data, but will not be allowed to take possession of the videos. The data sets will be managed by a center for innovation within the Ministry of Defense.