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Russia’s own records show foreign fighters from nearly 100 countries have died in its war on Ukraine. Leaked Rosstat death certificates, obtained by hackers and analyzed by Bloomberg, logged 11,335 such deaths between February 2022 and August 2026. The data is a rare documentary confirmation, from Russia’s own statistics agency,Continue Reading

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Ukraine’s soldiers shop for their own drones online, and they have ordered more than 1.5 million of them. Since the DOT-Chain Defence marketplace opened in July 2025, combat units have procured over 1.5 million drones through it, worth more than $2 billion, the Defense Ministry said. DOT-Chain Defence operates likeContinue Reading

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Russia is burning down Ukraine’s power grid by hitting the parts no one managed to shield. Only a third of the main transformers at substations of the state-owned electricity transmission operator Ukrenergo are housed in reinforced-concrete sarcophagi. Now, drones go after the unprotected rest, Serhii Nahorniak, a lawmaker on parliament’sContinue Reading

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A covert Russian network tried to exploit last month’s riots in France to paint its government as weak and overwhelmed by immigration. The operation behind it, known as “Operation Overload”, spread videos impersonating Western media to French audiences, according to an internal EU assessment seen by Reuters. The EU saysContinue Reading

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Germany is threatening to block the EU’s next long-term budget unless every member state helps pay for Ukraine. In a letter to European Council President António Costa, Chancellor Friedrich Merz made his support for the 2028-2034 budget conditional on all 27 countries committing to cover Ukraine’s financing, which faces aContinue Reading

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Two Ukrainian military engineers died blowing up the Hostomel bridge near Irpin to stop a Russian armored column from reaching Kyiv in the early days of the full-scale invasion. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posthumously named Lieutenant Zakhar Kvasnyi, 22, and Junior Sergeant Roman Shymanskyi, 37, Heroes of Ukraine, with the OrderContinue Reading

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Russia is digging tunnels to keep moving under skies Ukraine controls. Underground passages up to 150 meters long now run through 20-30% of the occupied left bank of Kherson Oblast, and Russian forces on the river have switched from frontal attacks to a “hybrid” positional war, the chief of staffContinue Reading