Russia says it has captured the Donbas fortress city of Kostiantynivka. It has not. Its troops have pushed into only the southwestern part of the city, while the districts east and north of the Kryvyi Torets River remain a gray zone or in Ukrainian hands, Defense Express director Serhii ZhuretsContinue Reading
Russia now rushes mobilized men from call-up to the front line in five to seven days. Its losses are outrunning its ability to replace them, forcing it to throw barely trained troops into battle and to recruit foreigners for pay, the commander of Ukraine’s “Achilles” drone brigade, Yurii Fedorenko, toldContinue Reading
Russia is giving 1,615 Ukrainian children in occupied Kherson Oblast a “military-patriotic” education. Six after-school centers in the occupied south offer it alongside art, sports, and crafts, the Russian-installed governor, Volodymyr Saldo, said on Telegram, folding the work into a national youth program. The centers are one strand of Russia’sContinue Reading
A single Russian strike blew a crater the size of a house at a power substation of Ukraine’s state electricity transmission company. Russia has stepped up its assault on Ukraine’s grid with jet drones and ballistic missiles, and repeated strikes are wrecking equipment before crews can finish repairs, Ukrenergo reports,Continue Reading
Russia’s own records show foreign fighters from nearly 100 countries have died in its war on Ukraine. Leaked Rosstat death certificates, obtained by hackers and analyzed by Bloomberg, logged 11,335 such deaths between February 2022 and August 2026. The data is a rare documentary confirmation, from Russia’s own statistics agency,Continue Reading
Ukraine’s soldiers shop for their own drones online, and they have ordered more than 1.5 million of them. Since the DOT-Chain Defence marketplace opened in July 2025, combat units have procured over 1.5 million drones through it, worth more than $2 billion, the Defense Ministry said. DOT-Chain Defence operates likeContinue Reading
Russia is burning down Ukraine’s power grid by hitting the parts no one managed to shield. Only a third of the main transformers at substations of the state-owned electricity transmission operator Ukrenergo are housed in reinforced-concrete sarcophagi. Now, drones go after the unprotected rest, Serhii Nahorniak, a lawmaker on parliament’sContinue Reading
Most Ukrainian soldiers can hold a frontline position for about a month before they start to break down. After the first month, 60% report signs of exhaustion, and by day 60 it is eight in ten, according to a study by Ukraine’s Office of the Military Ombudsperson, which found theContinue Reading
A covert Russian network tried to exploit last month’s riots in France to paint its government as weak and overwhelmed by immigration. The operation behind it, known as “Operation Overload”, spread videos impersonating Western media to French audiences, according to an internal EU assessment seen by Reuters. The EU saysContinue Reading
Germany is threatening to block the EU’s next long-term budget unless every member state helps pay for Ukraine. In a letter to European Council President António Costa, Chancellor Friedrich Merz made his support for the 2028-2034 budget conditional on all 27 countries committing to cover Ukraine’s financing, which faces aContinue Reading
Two Ukrainian military engineers died blowing up the Hostomel bridge near Irpin to stop a Russian armored column from reaching Kyiv in the early days of the full-scale invasion. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posthumously named Lieutenant Zakhar Kvasnyi, 22, and Junior Sergeant Roman Shymanskyi, 37, Heroes of Ukraine, with the OrderContinue Reading
The US has approved the sale of 500 PAC-3 interceptor missiles to Ukraine, with delivery only after 2030. The $2.1 billion deal will not solve Ukraine’s problem with Russia’s mass ballistic strikes, aviation expert Kostiantyn Kryvolap said on 24 Channel. Anti-ballistic defense is an acute problem for Ukraine, because RussiaContinue Reading
Russia is digging tunnels to keep moving under skies Ukraine controls. Underground passages up to 150 meters long now run through 20-30% of the occupied left bank of Kherson Oblast, and Russian forces on the river have switched from frontal attacks to a “hybrid” positional war, the chief of staffContinue Reading