Olena Mukhina

Air-raid alerts covered a record share of working hours at shopping centers across Ukraine in August. Sirens ran for 21.8 percent of the hours malls were open, the Ukrainian Council of Shopping Centers reported. For more than a fifth of the hours malls were open to serve customers, sirens insteadContinue Reading

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