Olena Mukhina

Exclusives Ukraine’s protesters set a 24 July deadline as Zelenskyy weighs replacing his army chief. Organizers gave the government four days before nightly rallies begin. Why Russia is importing gasoline made from its own oil. To keep its pumps supplied, Moscow has written India’s gasoline price into its own taxContinue Reading

Ukraine put a grenade launcher on a robot that fits in the back of a minivan. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry has codified the new “Zmii Mini Strike” reconnaissance-strike ground robotic complex for fire support and destroying enemy personnel and armor. The platform’s base configuration mounts an MK19 automatic grenade launcher —Continue Reading

A Ukrainian assault regiment says it has cleared Kostiantynivka from Russian invaders. Soldiers of the 425th “Skelia” (Rock) Separate Assault Regiment reported that they conducted a clearing operation in a city in Donetsk Oblast and that the city is under the control of the Ukrainian army. The claim is aContinue Reading

Ukrainian troops will march through Brussels for the first time. A Ukrainian unit will take part in Belgium’s National Day military parade on 21 July, Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken announced. The Brussels appearance comes a week after Ukrainian troops marched at France’s Bastille Day parade, also a first. TheContinue Reading

A Ukrainian assault regiment says it has cleared Kostiantynivka from Russian invaders. Soldiers of the 425th “Skala” (Rock) Separate Assault Regiment reported that they conducted a clearing operation in a city in Donetsk Oblast and that the city is under the control of the Ukrainian army. The claim is aContinue Reading

Kharkiv Oblast got 12 pickup trucks and two road rollers from Germany. The vehicles came from Germany’s Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW), Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration head Oleh Synehubov said on Facebook, secured with help from the regional administration and a charitable organization. The pickups are going where theContinue Reading

Ukraine has a new drone hunter that outclimbs its prey. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry codified the Tsyklop interceptor drone, which can rise above the maximum flight altitude of Russian strike and reconnaissance UAVs and destroy them from there. Ukraine’s interceptor lineup has filled fast with systems that compete on speed andContinue Reading

Ukraine gave its heavy-bomber drones the ability to hit within a meter. Kyiv has codified FireFly, a domestic terminal-guidance module for heavy-strike drones, and it is already in use with Perun and Vampire bombers, as well as other platforms, Defender Media reports. FireFly attaches to a munition slung under aContinue Reading

Exclusive International monitors confirm Russia’s blockade of occupied Oleshky, where the living starve and the dead go unburied. Four months after Euromaidan Press first reported the siege, the UN, Human Rights Watch, ISW, and the OSCE have all confirmed it. An exiled official says 100 bodies lie unburied in theContinue Reading

Ukraine hit a Russian warship at its own dock in Crimea. Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck a Project 10410 Svetlyak-class patrol ship at Kerch, along with tankers, a refinery 700 kilometers inside Russia, and a string of fuel and logistics targets over 16 July and the night into 17 July, Ukraine’sContinue Reading

Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorov wrote in the same post confirming his departure that Ukraine had conducted a successful ballistic missile test on 14 July, developed within the Defense Ministry’s zone of responsibility. “Symbolically,” the same day the government fell, he said. Fedorov did not name the missile. He said theContinue Reading

Ukraine burned the machine that lays minefields from kilometers away. Fighters of the Asgard battalion within the 412th Nemesis brigade struck a rare Russian Zemledeliye system on the Zaporizhzhia front, the brigade said. The Zemledeliye (“Agriculture”) is an engineering system that fires rockets to scatter mines across a target areaContinue Reading