Ukraine’s drone force is killing most of its targets close to the front, not in the deep strikes that make headlines. In July, fighters of the Unmanned Systems Forces (SBS) struck 53,755 unique Russian targets, including 11,609 Russian personnel, SBS commander Major Robert “Madiar” Brovdi said on 1 August. TheContinue Reading
The missile Russia used to strike Kyiv Oblast on 10 July contained more than 140 foreign components. Without such parts, Russia could not build its weapons, presidential sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said, according to Ukrinform. The breakdown of one missile is a map of how sanctions leak. Examining the wreckageContinue Reading
Exclusives Precision missiles hit the coordinates. Investigators ask who was still standing there. A new framework names the pattern in four Russian strikes—and aims at Russia’s standard legal defense. Europe wants Ukraine’s railway split. The war wants it whole. Ukraine has two years to split its railway on the EUContinue Reading
Ukraine burned down a seventh of Russia’s largest online retailer in a month. Over July, Ukrainian drones destroyed eight Wildberries warehouses with a total area of about 860,000 square meters, the independent Russian outlet Verstka calculated. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has explained the strikes on the “Russian AliExpress” byContinue Reading
Ukraine has lost another F-16. During a combat mission on one sector of the front, an F-16 fighter of the Ukrainian Air Force experienced an onboard emergency, forcing the pilot to eject, the Air Force reported on Telegram. Every F-16 lost matters more than the airframe, because Ukraine has soContinue Reading
Ukraine chased a Russian spy drone to 6,400 meters and shot it down. Pilots of the National Guard’s Lasar’s Group interceptor unit spotted and struck a Russian reconnaissance drone at an unimaginable altitude, the unit reported, publishing video of the engagement on 28 July. The target was a Russian ZALAContinue Reading
Ukraine says its drones have hit 201 Russian ships in three weeks. Robert “Madiar” Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (SBS), reported that Ukrainian drones have struck the vessels of Russia’s shadow fleet in three weeks of the SBS operation “MoLoChKa,” which began on 6 July. The tally splitsContinue Reading
Russia’s strikes on cargo ships have now shut down an iron ore giant. Pivdennyi Mining and Processing Plant (Pivdennyi GZK) has announced it has begun suspending mining and temporarily curtailing operations due to ongoing Russian attacks on civilian merchant ships bound for Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. The plant cannot mineContinue Reading
Iran is threatening to hit back after Ukraine struck its ships. Meanwhile, Ukrainian monitoring channels that help the Ukrainians track Russian drones and missiles carried information that soon Iran might attack Ukraine with ballistic missiles. The threat is real, but a ballistic strike on Ukraine is not confirmed. It followsContinue Reading
Ukrainian police handcuffed an investigative journalist over a draft violation, which his newsroom says does not exist. On 27 July in Kyiv, police detained hromadske journalist Yevhen Shulhat, stopping the taxi he was riding in. At hromadske, Shulhat investigated corruption, including alleged cases involving members of Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies.Continue Reading
Lithuania wants Russians who performed in occupied Ukraine to sign a declaration condemning the war or stay out. Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry has proposed amending the national sanctions law with new restrictions on Russians and Belarusians who support the war against Ukraine, including barring them from entering the country, the BalticContinue Reading
Exclusives Russia’s ship strikes stall Ukraine’s grain corridor. The damage is moving inland. Not one ship passed through the corridor on 22 July, at the height of harvest. The choke is now reaching Ukraine’s farmers and its railways. Ukraine’s strikes left Crimea’s prepaid fuel coupons worthless—and the biggest chain won’tContinue Reading
Ukraine’s rescuers have a powerful new firefighting truck. The vehicle fleet of Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES) gained a Rosenbauer Panther 8×8 airport firefighting vehicle, which will soon enter service and help rescuers carry out the most difficult tasks, the SES announced. According to the UN, since the start ofContinue Reading