Olena Mukhina

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

Ukraine’s Special Forces said they hit the turbine equipment that keeps the lights on in occupied Crimea for the Russian armed forces. Also, resistance took part in the mission which struck the Balaklava thermal power plant in Sevastopol overnight on 14 July. The strike damaged the machine hall housing theContinue Reading

Two men from Cameroon signed Russian army contracts and died within about a month. Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence (HUR) published the identities of both, saying their bodies were found on the Lyman and Zaporizhzhia sectors of the front. The two are recent entries in a recruitment pipeline that has pulled atContinue Reading

A Ukrainian female soldier flies one of the war’s heaviest drones and has twice turned down a promotion to keep doing it. “Tsyhancha” went from FPV operator to piloting the Heavy Shot bomber in the 125th Separate Heavy Mechanized Brigade, which told her story on social media. She decided toContinue Reading

The head of Ukraine’s state defense conglomerate is out. Herman Smetanin announced on social media that he is leaving the post of director general of Ukroboronprom, the state joint-stock company that groups roughly 100 enterprises producing missiles, drones, armored vehicles, and ammunition. The resignation follows the Vyshneve tragedy. On 6Continue Reading

A Russian drone killed a man driving his car in Kharkiv Oblast. The strike hit a Peugeot on the Zolochiv-Maksymivka road near the village of Berezivka in Bohodukhiv raion on the evening of 14 July, killing the 61-year-old driver, the Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor’s Office said on Telegram. The drone wasContinue Reading

Exclusives Ukraine’s premier listed a record year to the parliament that dismissed her. No one in Kyiv has said why. Her own farewell leaves out the name that would explain it. Hungary swapped its pro-Russian prime minister. Yet it is still slowing Ukraine’s path to the EU.. Hungary has allowedContinue Reading