Olena Mukhina

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

Russia does not for a moment back away from the “human safari” in Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast. The occupiers continue hunting Ukrainian pensioners, even those who are 83 years old, with FPV drones. This is exactly what happened on 23 May, according to Ukraine’s National Police.  The incidents are the operationalContinue Reading

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) struck the “AKM” chemical complex of Metafrax Chemicals in the town of Gubakha in Russia’s Perm Krai. It lies 1,700 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says. Today’s strike is the third Ukrainian deep-strike operation against this same chemical complex in eight months. Ukraine’sContinue Reading

Ukraine has documented more than 11,000 Russian FPV-drone attacks on civilians since 2024. The Prosecutor General’s Office has identified a systematic, intensifying pattern of strikes on residential areas, civilian transport, hospitals, and, most distinctively, repeat “double strikes” on the same location after medics, firefighters, and police arrive. The drone attacksContinue Reading

Ukraine submitted a new package of materials to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on the forced deportation and illegal detention in Russia. Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko says the cases concern more than 1,800 Ukrainian prisoners from the Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts. The evidentiary base ofContinue Reading

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a joint declaration in Beijing on 20 May on building a “multipolar world,” The Moscow Times reported. The text, published by the Kremlin press service, was signed alongside around 40 other documents and a 47-page joint statement on the strengtheningContinue Reading

Nearly a thousand Ukrainians who finished criminal sentences in Russian prisons are now being held indefinitely in Russian detention centers. The Russian Defense Ministry recruiters press them to sign army contracts to fight against Ukraine as the practical way out, the Russian independent outlet Important Stories (IStories) reported Russia haltedContinue Reading

Ukraine has shown its sea drone Katran X1.2 carrying 27 AI-guided MAC Dead Fly interceptor drones. Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence has conducted tests on the Dnipro River for WELT.  The system is the product of cooperation between the Ukrainian company MAC HUB and the naval branch of the “Black Sea LegionЄContinue Reading

Before he held a frontline position in Ukraine for 110 days, Jaime, a Colombian volunteer, installed window frames for a living, he recounted to the brigade. Now he is a fighter with the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade “Magura,” with the callsign Tornado, according to ArmyInform.  He is one of aContinue Reading

The US has extended its waiver for another 30 days, allowing vulnerable countries to buy Russian oil already at sea, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. It is a second such extension, and one he had told European allies last month he would not make, according to Politico.  The waiver keepsContinue Reading