Olena Mukhina

A Ukrainian Navy strike with the Neptune coastal missile system disabled two primary refining units and oil storage facilities at the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Russia’s Rostov Oblast on the night of 31 May. The Ukrainian Navy confirmed the use of the weapon and the damage on 3 June, threeContinue Reading

Russia’s monthly production of ballistic missiles for its Iskander and Kinzhal systems is now running ahead of Lockheed Martin’s monthly production of PAC-3 MSE interceptors for the Patriot air-defense system. Ukraine relies on American PAC-3 MSE to stop those exact missiles, Defense Express chief editor Oleh Katkov said on SuspilneContinue Reading

Russia’s GRU military intelligence service was preparing targeted terror attacks against engineers and other officials working at Ukrainian defense-industry factories, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) reports. The announcement came after detaining a GRU agent in Zakarpattia Oblast who was building intelligence files on the personnel involved. Russia has already killed prominentContinue Reading

A Russian overnight strike damaged a Chinese Zeekr dealership in Kyiv’s Podil district on 1-2 June. The premium electric-vehicle showroom at 4 Naberezhno-Luhova Street has temporarily suspended operations, the company said in its statement. China is Russia’s most important wartime economic partner — its top trading partner and a keyContinue Reading

The newest automated remote-controlled turrets joined Kyiv Oblast’s air defense layer overnight on 2 June as Russia launched a “massive” drone-and-missile attack. The strike on the region continues, practically without pause throughout the night, Regional military administration Head Mykola Kalashnyk reports. In 2025, Ukraine announced the deployment of AI-guided defenseContinue Reading

A Ukrainian ground robotic complex (NRK) has destroyed a Russian troop concentration. The group was based in the basement of an industrial building near the front, the 5th Separate Assault Kyiv Brigade reports. The system hit it with an explosion strong enough to collapse the building’s reinforced concrete ceiling ontoContinue Reading

Belarus is now industrially integrated into Russia’s war on Ukraine in ways that go well beyond hosting troops or nuclear weapons, ABC News reports. Over 500 Belarusian industrial enterprises now manufacture weapons and ammunition, repair military equipment, and provide logistics for Moscow’s forces, according to BELPOL.  It is an oppositionContinue Reading

A Russian drone struck the maternity ward of the city hospital in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odesa Oblast, on the morning of 1 June — International Children’s Day. Six new mothers with their newborns were inside the building, along with one woman in active labor, Odesa Regional Military Administration head Oleh Kiper reports.Continue Reading

This week, Ukraine’s Defense Forces set the all-time daily record in the number of destroyed Russian vehicles since the full-scale war began, Ukrainian General Staff data shows. On 29 May, Kyiv forces neutralized 483 Russian vehicles.  The figures put numbers on what Ukrainian commanders and the Defense Ministry have been callingContinue Reading

Russia has closed the Manhush-Berdiansk highway in occupied southern Ukraine after Ukrainian drone strikes on its logistics, residents of occupied Mariupol report in local chat groups, Vilne Radio wrote on 31 May. Drivers attempting the route between the two occupied cities have been turned back. Some say the section hasContinue Reading

A new investigation by the Belarusian opposition group BelPol has identified more than 100 career officers of Belarus’s KGB and military intelligence (GRU) operating under diplomatic cover in roughly 40 countries, according to a summary published by Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SZRU). The network’s tasks span the full spectrum ofContinue Reading

Ukraine’s Third Army Corps, one of the country’s most prominent formations, commanded by General Andrii Biletsky, plans to replace roughly 30% of its infantry with ground robotic systems by the end of 2026, his advisor Vladyslav Sobolevskyi told the Black Sea Security Forum in Odesa, Ukrinform reports. The plan, ifContinue Reading