Russian losses reached one of the highest of the entire full-scale war in August, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry says, citing General Staff data. Last month, Ukraine killed or wounded 42,020 invaders. As its frontline losses climb, Russia is escalating its terror against Ukraine’s civilians. Moscow uses large numbers of ballistic missilesContinue Reading
On 1 September — the day Ukraine marks Knowledge Day, when schoolchildren and students are meant to begin the new academic year — Russia launched a massive attack on Kyiv and its region with ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones. Moscow used different types of its fast, deadly weapons, including ship-launchedContinue Reading
A Ukrainian defense company has built a single device that finds an FPV drone, reads its video feed, and jams it. Rebel Group has developed Brama, a stationary electronic warfare and reconnaissance system to counter FPV drones, which it plans to codify for use by the Defense Forces, the company’sContinue Reading
More than half the drones Russia fired at Ukraine over the past four days were jet-powered, and Kyiv was the main target. Of the more than 1,500 drones launched, about 800 were jet-powered, Colonel Yurii Ihnat, head of the communications department of Ukraine’s Air Force Command, said, UNIAN reports. AContinue Reading
A Ukrainian maker known for ground robots has built a flying attack drone. Ratel Robotics has unveiled the Ratel K1, a strike FPV drone for ground targets with a tactical range of up to 30 kilometers, according to Defender Media. The K1 will likely join the number of weapons thatContinue Reading
The Ukrainian military is completing work on new aviation developments. They are essentially finished and already in testing, and the aircraft carrying them will enter combat, aviation commander Colonel Oleksandr Diakiv said in an Air Force Command segment. Ukraine has already done with jets built decades ago. Its crews turnedContinue Reading
A Russian strike on southern Odesa Oblast killed one person overnight and set grain trucks on fire. Five trucks loaded with grain were destroyed and three more damaged, with one person killed and three injured, the head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, Oleh Kiper, said. The strike hit theContinue Reading
Poland’s prime minister says the next seven or eight months could decide the region’s security. Donald Tusk said there are signs of serious Russian preparations to escalate tensions, both in the war against Ukraine and across the region, according to Ukrinform. Tusk’s warning follows weeks of similar alarms from theContinue Reading
Ukraine’s new defense minister wears his war on his wrist. Yevhenii Khmara’s bracelet carries, on each of its chains, the engraved name of a comrade who did not come back from the war, The National Interest reported. Khmara took over the Defense Ministry on 19 August, replacing Mykhailo Fedorov, whoseContinue Reading
Russia is looking for its next foreign recruits in Indonesia, Kyiv says. Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service reports that it has obtained documents on at least eight Indonesian citizens recruited into the Russian occupation army. Russia has recruited at least 27,000 foreign nationals from more than 130 countries since February 2022,Continue Reading
Ukraine’s drone interceptors work until the weather turns. On 28 July, Presidential advisor Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov wrote that fog and cloud in fall, winter, and spring can leave an interceptor pilot unable to see more than a dozen meters, and that success rates fall as soon as winter begins, aContinue Reading
China is helping Russia build a faster Shahed. Russia has begun using upgraded Shahed drones with Chinese-made turbojet engines that fly at speeds close to three times those of earlier versions, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Shahed jet is designed to beat Ukraine’s air defenses. Ukrainian interceptors have downedContinue Reading
Ukraine has drawn up a list of those who build Russia’s ballistic missiles and wants all of them sanctioned by its allies. Kyiv is asking partners to impose sanctions on more than 100 Russian ballistics producers, presidential sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said at a press conference in Kyiv, according toContinue Reading