Russia has launched another massed missile attack on Kyiv in the early hours of 20 August. Russian forces struck the capital with ballistic and Zircon hypersonic missiles, with loud explosions heard across the city and region, according to Ukraine’s monitoring channel Yeradar. The strike is the latest in Russia’s campaignContinue Reading
A member of former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov’s team is moving over to the new minister. Mstyslav Banik, who served as a deputy to Fedorov, says he is staying on under the newly appointed Defense Minister, Yevhenii Khmara, Suspilne reports. Khmara will propose that the core of the current DefenseContinue Reading
Ukrainian activists who spent a month calling for the former defense minister’s return have criticized the appointment of his successor. People rallying in Kyiv’s Mariinskyi Park for the reinstatement of Mykhailo Fedorov as defense minister greeted the news of Yevhenii Khmara’s appointment to the post with disappointment, Ukrinform reports. TheContinue Reading
Ukraine brought the world’s most battle-tested counter-drone experience to a NATO exercise. From 3 to 14 August, Ukraine took part in NATO’s Baltic Trust 2026 exercise in Latvia, which focused on countering drones and other threats posed by uncrewed aerial systems, the General Staff reported. The exercise responds to aContinue Reading
Ukrainian company BlueBird Tech has unveiled a new version of its fixed-wing “Bebradron” UAV. The new modification has no warhead but can carry a payload of up to 2 kg, Oboronka writes. The Bebradron-M is remotely operated. It has a cruising speed of 70 km/h and a maximum speed ofContinue Reading
A Ukrainian company has built a tiny antenna to solve one of the drone war’s hardest problems: staying connected. Ukraine’s BlueBird Tech has unveiled the CLOVER 5.8 GHz antenna, a 25-gram device for transmitting and receiving radio signals, according to RBC-Ukraine. The antenna addresses the connectivity problem at the centerContinue Reading
Ukraine sent rescuers to help fight wildfires in France, and they returned from a first-of-its-kind mission. Workers of Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (DSNS) have reached Ukraine from France, where they spent nearly two weeks helping to contain large forest fires, Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi announced. The deployment was Ukraine’s firstContinue Reading
Ukraine has hit Russia’s biggest marketplace in cyberspace as well as with drones. Cyber specialists disrupted Wildberries’ operations across Russia, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) reports. Ukraine says that Wildberries is not ordinary commerce but a piece of Russia’s war logistics. According to the military command, the networkContinue Reading
Ukraine wrecked more Russian vehicles in July than in any month of the war. Ukraine’s Defense Forces destroyed and disabled 13,998 units of automotive equipment, the most for the entire war, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry reported on 12 August. The record fits a month of intensifying attrition against Russian logistics andContinue Reading
Ukraine is retiring a Soviet chemical-scout vehicle in favor of one it built itself. Ukraine’s National Guard has received the first Ukrainian radiation and chemical reconnaissance vehicles on the armored Tisa chassis, replacing the outdated Soviet UAZ-469RKh, National Guard commander Oleksandr Pivnenko announced. The vehicle is a step in Ukraine’sContinue Reading
Canada has moved against a Gulf company arming Russia. Ottawa has imposed sanctions on Streit Group, a UAE-based weapons manufacturer that supplies military equipment to Russia, Canada’s Foreign Ministry announced. The move closes a gap in an international net that has been years in the making. Ukraine sanctioned Streit GroupContinue Reading
Ukrainian rescuers helped extinguish a wildfire in an allied country. The firefighters stopped a large fire that engulfed about a hectare of forest and threatened a settlement in France, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (DSNS) reported on Facebook. The deployment marks Ukraine’s shift from aid recipient to contributor. A country thatContinue Reading
Ukrainian partisans say they crippled a locomotive moving Russian military supplies to the front. Agents of the ATESH movement carried out a sabotage operation near Voronezh, destroying the cab of an electric locomotive used to support military transport, ATESH reported. Disabling a single locomotive cripples the entire supply line. TheContinue Reading