Olena Mukhina

Russia keeps striking the border crossings on Ukraine’s western frontier with NATO member Romania and with Moldova, far from any front line. It has hit at least five of them in Odesa Oblast since late August, killing two civilians at one, State Border Guard Service Spokesperson Andrii Demchenko said, accordingContinue Reading

Retreating Russian forces have mined the Oleksandrivka sector so heavily that only ground robots can move across parts of it, Serhii Kolesnychenko, a communications officer of the 148th Separate Zhytomyr Artillery Brigade of Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces, says, according to UkrInform. This direction lies on the junction of the Donetsk,Continue Reading

Ukraine’s newly shown Koral missile could become a home-built answer to the Patriot in addition to the “Freya” project. However, the system has yet to prove it can stop Russian ballistic missiles, Ivan Kyrychevsky, an arms expert at Defense Express and a soldier in the 413th REID regiment of theContinue Reading

Ukraine’s government has moved to restore an anti-corruption safeguard it had quietly weakened — the rule that requires banks to monitor the accounts of former senior officials. It has registered a new bill, No. 16051, that rewrites the provision, Deputy Olha Vasylevska-Smahliuk says, Ekonomichna Pravda reports. The new bill changesContinue Reading

Ukraine says it has found a way to shoot down Russia’s Banderol jet missiles for less than the missiles themselves cost. A system from a developer in the Brave1 defense-tech cluster has already destroyed at least four of them, Brave1 said, releasing video of the intercepts. The point is theContinue Reading

Ukraine’s drone forces say they struck 58,465 Russian targets in August, an average of nearly 1,900 a day. The tally is up almost 9 percent on July and more than double January’s, and it included 54 vessels of Russia’s shadow fleet, 33 air-defense systems, and 168 energy nodes, Unmanned SystemsContinue Reading

Ukraine’s anti-corruption investigators say a senior official in the Office of the Prosecutor General set up and ran a criminal organization from within the office. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) said in a statement on 5 September that the group took bribes toContinue Reading

A Ukrainian National Guard unit says it destroyed one of Russia’s rarer electronic-warfare stations, 55 kilometers behind the front. Lasar’s Group said its own bomber drones hunted down an R-330Zh Zhitel jamming station near Sievierodonetsk in mid-summer, in a statement on its Telegram channel. The Zhitel is worth the effort.Continue Reading

A Ukrainian soldier in a trench or in a vehicle can now get a short alert on their phone the moment a Russian FPV drone or glide bomb starts closing in. The system behind it, Hrafit (Graphite), pulls together data from nearly all available radio-technical intelligence and surveillance into aContinue Reading

Russia has been bolting small FPV attack drones to the wings of its long-range Gerans and releasing them deep inside Ukraine, far behind the front. The tactic may now have reached Kyiv Oblast, where an FPV drone was recently recorded, though it is not confirmed that a Geran delivered it,Continue Reading

Twenty Ukrainian companies are now building jet-powered interceptors to down Russia’s increasingly fast jet-powered drones. One of them, the Ukrainian-British startup Firebolt Engineering, already has an interceptor flying combat missions with two Air Force units and Ukraine’s special operations forces, Defender Media reports. Russia launched more than 2,500 jet-powered dronesContinue Reading

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