Ukraine has at most six to nine months to seize the initiative on the battlefield and strengthen its position for peace negotiations, Brigadier General Andrii Biletsky, commander of Ukraine’s Third Army Corps, told Reuters. The commander’s assessment that Russia’s army is exhausted and incapable of making major breakthroughs, and thatContinue Reading
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has charged Davor Savičić with war crimes committed during the spring 2022 occupation of Kyiv Oblast. The 46-year-old Bosnian Serb who lives in Khimki, Russia, and serves as a colonel in the Russian Redut private military company. Savičić commanded the “Wolves” (Volki) sabotage and reconnaissance unitContinue Reading
Ukraine’s “People’s Satellite” has delivered more than 5,900 synthetic aperture radar images to military intelligence since operations began that September, Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence reports. The cumulative figure marks roughly a 1,700-image increase over the agency’s last public count of 4,173 images in June 2024. The project was funded from $13.5Continue Reading
A six-month deployment of mixed-reality therapy across 47 Ukrainian healthcare organizations reached 1,114 patients through 8,884 sessions. It is the largest documented test of VR mental health care in an active war zone, Defence Blog reported. The study, published on 26 May by Ukrainian health-tech startup Aspichi, with funding fromContinue Reading
Poland has received preliminary approval from the US State Department to manufacture PAC-3 MSE interceptor missiles domestically, says Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk, RMF24 reports. The Americans were initially skeptical, but their position shifted after a Polish delegation visited the US, driven by growing demand and shrinking US stocks. LockheedContinue Reading
Russia again threatens Kyiv with new strikes. Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, Ukrainian defense adviser, says the threats are partly psychological pressure, as Russia is failing on the front lines, according to UNIAN. Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced the planned strikes on 25 May, warning foreign diplomats to leave Kyiv. The announcement followed Russia’sContinue Reading
A Ukrainian drone company advanced in the Pentagon’s $1.1 billion drone competition. Defense-tech General Chereshnia is one of numerous firms selected for the second round of the US Drone Dominance Program (DDP). This is a Pentagon initiative seeking producers of inexpensive, scalable strike drones for the US Army amid theContinue Reading
On 25 May, Russia warned foreign diplomats to leave Kyiv ahead of “systemic strikes,” its Foreign Ministry said on Telegram. Moscow made the announcement a day after the largest strike of the war on the Ukrainian capital, in which it used an Oreshnik intermediate ballistic missile, killing four people. FPVContinue Reading
Competition in Ukraine’s largest 155mm shell contract delivered 16% in savings, the Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov says. The Defense Procurement Agency “State Operator of Rear” signed contracts with six manufacturers for the largest batch of long-range shells in the agency’s history. The competitive process with multiple participants, identical rules forContinue Reading
Ukrainian partisans say they blinded Russia’s Novorossiysk before the drones came. The Atesh movement reports its agents disabled communication towers and damaged a transformer substation feeding Russian air-defense infrastructure around the port city on the eve of the Ukrainian strike on the Grushevaya Balka oil depot. The claim, if accurate,Continue Reading
Ukraine’s monitoring channels have reported that Russia has likely used its Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile on Bila Tserkva in Kyiv Oblast. This system is designed to release up to six individual warheads at hypersonic speeds, which then fall and strike separate targets independently. The city’s residents report hearing a loud,Continue Reading
Ukrainian intelligence, citing data shared by US and European partners, has reported that Russia is preparing a combined strike against Ukraine. It may include the third operational use of the “Oreshnik” intermediate-range ballistic missile with Kyiv among the likely targets, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says. Meanwhile, the US Embassy in KyivContinue Reading
Russia will not abandon its Shahed campaign despite a sharp drop in operational effectiveness. However, it will adapt by fitting electronic-warfare systems to the drones themselves and scaling jet-powered Geran-3 and Geran-4, Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, the Defense Ministry adviser, told UNIAN. It will shift attack patterns toward targets closer toContinue Reading