Olena Mukhina

Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorov wrote in the same post confirming his departure that Ukraine had conducted a successful ballistic missile test on 14 July, developed within the Defense Ministry’s zone of responsibility. “Symbolically,” the same day the government fell, he said. Fedorov did not name the missile. He said theContinue Reading

Ukraine burned the machine that lays minefields from kilometers away. Fighters of the Asgard battalion within the 412th Nemesis brigade struck a rare Russian Zemledeliye system on the Zaporizhzhia front, the brigade said. The Zemledeliye (“Agriculture”) is an engineering system that fires rockets to scatter mines across a target areaContinue Reading

Ukraine’s Special Forces said they hit the turbine equipment that keeps the lights on in occupied Crimea for the Russian armed forces. Also, resistance took part in the mission which struck the Balaklava thermal power plant in Sevastopol overnight on 14 July. The strike damaged the machine hall housing theContinue Reading

Two men from Cameroon signed Russian army contracts and died within about a month. Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence (HUR) published the identities of both, saying their bodies were found on the Lyman and Zaporizhzhia sectors of the front. The two are recent entries in a recruitment pipeline that has pulled atContinue Reading

A Ukrainian female soldier flies one of the war’s heaviest drones and has twice turned down a promotion to keep doing it. “Tsyhancha” went from FPV operator to piloting the Heavy Shot bomber in the 125th Separate Heavy Mechanized Brigade, which told her story on social media. She decided toContinue Reading

The head of Ukraine’s state defense conglomerate is out. Herman Smetanin announced on social media that he is leaving the post of director general of Ukroboronprom, the state joint-stock company that groups roughly 100 enterprises producing missiles, drones, armored vehicles, and ammunition. The resignation follows the Vyshneve tragedy. On 6Continue Reading

A Russian drone killed a man driving his car in Kharkiv Oblast. The strike hit a Peugeot on the Zolochiv-Maksymivka road near the village of Berezivka in Bohodukhiv raion on the evening of 14 July, killing the 61-year-old driver, the Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor’s Office said on Telegram. The drone wasContinue Reading

Exclusives Ukraine’s premier listed a record year to the parliament that dismissed her. No one in Kyiv has said why. Her own farewell leaves out the name that would explain it. Hungary swapped its pro-Russian prime minister. Yet it is still slowing Ukraine’s path to the EU.. Hungary has allowedContinue Reading

Ukraine put a machine gun on an occupied beach without putting a man on it. Soldiers of the 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade have landed a ground robotic complex on the Russian-held shore of the Kinburn Spit in Mykolaiv Oblast, the brigade’s 1st unmanned systems battalion “Zhakh z Nebes” (Terror fromContinue Reading

Exclusives One Russian ship every 112 minutes for a week: Ukraine hits 14 more vessels as total tally nears 100. The Unmanned Systems Forces put July’s running total at 91 vessels, with the live scoreboard still updating as reports get verified. Military Ukraine says Russia’s Alabuga workers, including minors, areContinue Reading

Europe’s future defense architecture must reach past the EU’s borders. Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto told La Stampa that it should be genuinely continental and include partnerships with Britain, Norway, Switzerland, Moldova, the Western Balkans, Türkiye, and Ukraine, Türkiye Today reports. He is one data point in a recruitment system that has pulled atContinue Reading

Francis realized he had joined the Russian army when they handed him a uniform. The 35-year-old Kenyan, an electrical engineer by training, had signed what he believed was a contract for security guard work in Russia, he told Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Karpenko in an interview after his capture.  He isContinue Reading