Olena Mukhina

There is a reason Ukraine cannot simply blow up the launchers firing ballistic missiles at its cities. Russia’s Iskander launchers are extremely hard to catch, and interfering with the missiles’ production is nearly as difficult, presidential adviser Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov said on the national telethon, according to UNIAN. The launchersContinue Reading

Russia’s overnight barrage burned down the Ukrainian warehouse of a German household brand. The strike on the night of 5 August destroyed the central warehouse of Liqui Moly Ukraine, which supplies motor oils, lubricants, and automotive chemicals, the company reported on Facebook. The strike hit a foreign company’s civilian supplyContinue Reading

Ukraine’s president has aired a pointed suspicion about why its air-defense missiles are running short. On 5 August, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said political motives may be one reason for the reduced supply of anti-ballistic missiles, including a wish to make Ukraine more compliant, he said at a meeting of the NationalContinue Reading

Russia has the ballistic missiles to keep hitting Ukraine every month at the current pace. Russia can launch about 100 ballistic missiles at Ukraine each month, technology specialist and presidential adviser Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov said on 5 August. The estimate sets the scale of a threat that Ukraine’s air defensesContinue Reading

A Russian drone hit food warehouses outside Dnipro. They caught fire in a suburb of Dnipro, Oleksandr Hanzha, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, reported. It is the latest in a Russian pattern of striking warehouses and food logistics that supply daily life in Ukraine. “A large-scale fireContinue Reading

One of Ukraine’s most respected generals has said out loud that the country’s constitutional goal of NATO membership will never happen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine’s ambassador to Britain, does not see Kyiv’s path to NATO membership, he said in a discussion on Euro-Atlantic integration at a meeting of ambassadors in Kyiv,Continue Reading

Ukraine’s parliament wants a permanent seat at the center of the EU’s legislature. Kyiv plans to open a representation in the European Parliament in the near future, mirroring the European Parliament’s own representation already established in Ukraine, Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk announced during a meeting of Ukraine’s ambassadors, according to UkrInform.Continue Reading

Ukraine’s military intelligence destroyed a Russian patrol boat built from a design Russia stole from Ukraine. Overnight from 29 to 30 July 2026, drone operators of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) struck three high-value targets of the Russian occupation army in the south, the agency reported. The three strikes costContinue Reading

Russia is losing men faster than at any point this year. Russian occupation forces lost 42,860 personnel in July 2026, the highest monthly figure since the start of the year, Ukraine’s General Staff reported on 1 August. The toll works out to roughly 1,380 Russian soldiers killed or wounded everyContinue Reading

Russia killed a warehouse worker at Ukraine’s largest online retailer with a guided jet-powered drone. On the morning of 1 August, Russia struck a Rozetka building where 270 people were working at the time with a jet-powered Shahed, targeting company employee Volodymyr Melnychenko and hospitalizing seven others, co-owner Iryna ChechotkinaContinue Reading

Ukraine’s drone force is killing most of its targets close to the front, not in the deep strikes that make headlines. In July, fighters of the Unmanned Systems Forces (SBS) struck 53,755 unique Russian targets, including 11,609 Russian personnel, SBS commander Major Robert “Madiar” Brovdi said on 1 August. TheContinue Reading

The missile Russia used to strike Kyiv Oblast on 10 July contained more than 140 foreign components. Without such parts, Russia could not build its weapons, presidential sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said, according to Ukrinform. The breakdown of one missile is a map of how sanctions leak. Examining the wreckageContinue Reading