Olena Mukhina

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

The European Commission officially recommended terminating the €2 million grant to the Venice Biennale due to the reopening of Russia’s pavilion. European Commission Vice President Henna Virkkunen announced the recommendation on X. Russia’s aggression has nothing to do with art and culture. Ukrainian Ministry of Culture data shows that theContinue Reading

Ukraine needs a minimum of 2,000 PAC-3 interceptors per year to defeat Russian ballistic missiles. Ukrainian military-political analyst Oleksandr Kovalenko from the Informational Resistance group said on Espreso TV that Ukraine’s requirement is 2,000 PAC-3 per year, against Russia’s production of the 9M723 ballistic missile for the Iskander-M complex atContinue Reading

Ukraine is the first state to fund combat humanoid robots as a separate category in defense procurement. Ukraine’s Brave1 defense cluster has opened a grant competition for developing domestic bipedal humanoid robots designed exclusively for military tasks, Tech Times reports. The decision creates a doctrinal precedent that other armed forcesContinue Reading

Australia is testing a reconnaissance drone that Ukraine has hardened for combat use. The Australian Army tested the Vector AI reconnaissance drone during Southern Jackaroo exercises at the Townsville training ground in Queensland, Defense-Blog reports. The Vector AI is made by German company Quantum Systems, which has made Ukraine itsContinue Reading

Ukraine’s air defenses achieved an 89% interception rate in June, but only 40% against ballistic missiles. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry reported that of 6,000 Russian attack drones and missiles launched in June, air defense intercepted 5,300. The performance follows a documented trend. Ukraine climbed to 90% interception in March 2026 asContinue Reading

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told journalists at the recent briefing that eight countries may join Freya, Ukraine’s own ballistic-missile interceptor project, per Ukrinform. He added that if allies supported the initiative, it would be “a big help and breakthrough for Ukraine’s defense-industrial complex.  The Freya missile itself is Ukrainian production, butContinue Reading

Russia’s FPV drone killed the last resident of Tokarivka Druha, a Kharkiv Oblast border village. The 57-year-old woman was walking along the road between the villages of Prudianka and Tsupivka when a Russian FPV drone struck her, Vyacheslav Zadorenko, head of the Derhachi City Military Administration, said. She had multipleContinue Reading

Exclusives Russia’s war economy is starving its own strategic projects. Russia’s top arms maker can’t afford to build its own garbage incinerators. Three F-16s and a Patriot battery teamed up to kill Russia’s best fighter. The two systems each have a weakness against Russian jets. Working together—one seeing, the otherContinue Reading

Exclusives Ukraine has a new 3,400-km attack drone. More refineries will burn.. With bigger wings and more fuel, Ukrainian drones can range deeper inside Russia to hit once unreachable targets. Reporters traced 143 properties to Ukraine’s anti-corruption chief’s brother. A court just banned the story.. The lawsuit that justifies theContinue Reading

Russia has deployed 10 Starlink jammers on the front to counter Ukrainian drone strikes. Ukrainian drone commanders and pilots from the 422nd Unmanned Systems Regiment operating in Zaporizhzhia Oblast told Reuters that Russian forces are using powerful electronic warfare systems to disrupt SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet, which most Ukrainian strikeContinue Reading

Ukraine’s drone commander said Russian truck drivers moving cargo to occupied Crimea are legitimate military targets and called them to “f*ck off” to Russia’s Rostov. Robert “Madiar” Brovdi said on 8 June that Ukrainian drones have hit more than 360 Russian truck drivers on the Crimea-bound land corridor in theContinue Reading