Russia again threatens Kyiv with new strikes. Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, Ukrainian defense adviser, says the threats are partly psychological pressure, as Russia is failing on the front lines, according to UNIAN. Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced the planned strikes on 25 May, warning foreign diplomats to leave Kyiv. The announcement followed Russia’sContinue Reading
A Ukrainian drone company advanced in the Pentagon’s $1.1 billion drone competition. Defense-tech General Chereshnia is one of numerous firms selected for the second round of the US Drone Dominance Program (DDP). This is a Pentagon initiative seeking producers of inexpensive, scalable strike drones for the US Army amid theContinue Reading
On 25 May, Russia warned foreign diplomats to leave Kyiv ahead of “systemic strikes,” its Foreign Ministry said on Telegram. Moscow made the announcement a day after the largest strike of the war on the Ukrainian capital, in which it used an Oreshnik intermediate ballistic missile, killing four people. FPVContinue Reading
Competition in Ukraine’s largest 155mm shell contract delivered 16% in savings, the Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov says. The Defense Procurement Agency “State Operator of Rear” signed contracts with six manufacturers for the largest batch of long-range shells in the agency’s history. The competitive process with multiple participants, identical rules forContinue Reading
Ukrainian partisans say they blinded Russia’s Novorossiysk before the drones came. The Atesh movement reports its agents disabled communication towers and damaged a transformer substation feeding Russian air-defense infrastructure around the port city on the eve of the Ukrainian strike on the Grushevaya Balka oil depot. The claim, if accurate,Continue Reading
Ukraine’s monitoring channels have reported that Russia has likely used its Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile on Bila Tserkva in Kyiv Oblast. This system is designed to release up to six individual warheads at hypersonic speeds, which then fall and strike separate targets independently. The city’s residents report hearing a loud,Continue Reading
Ukrainian intelligence, citing data shared by US and European partners, has reported that Russia is preparing a combined strike against Ukraine. It may include the third operational use of the “Oreshnik” intermediate-range ballistic missile with Kyiv among the likely targets, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says. Meanwhile, the US Embassy in KyivContinue Reading
Russia will not abandon its Shahed campaign despite a sharp drop in operational effectiveness. However, it will adapt by fitting electronic-warfare systems to the drones themselves and scaling jet-powered Geran-3 and Geran-4, Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, the Defense Ministry adviser, told UNIAN. It will shift attack patterns toward targets closer toContinue Reading
Russia does not for a moment back away from the “human safari” in Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast. The occupiers continue hunting Ukrainian pensioners, even those who are 83 years old, with FPV drones. This is exactly what happened on 23 May, according to Ukraine’s National Police. The incidents are the operationalContinue Reading
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) struck the “AKM” chemical complex of Metafrax Chemicals in the town of Gubakha in Russia’s Perm Krai. It lies 1,700 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says. Today’s strike is the third Ukrainian deep-strike operation against this same chemical complex in eight months. Ukraine’sContinue Reading
Ukraine has documented more than 11,000 Russian FPV-drone attacks on civilians since 2024. The Prosecutor General’s Office has identified a systematic, intensifying pattern of strikes on residential areas, civilian transport, hospitals, and, most distinctively, repeat “double strikes” on the same location after medics, firefighters, and police arrive. The drone attacksContinue Reading
Ukraine submitted a new package of materials to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on the forced deportation and illegal detention in Russia. Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko says the cases concern more than 1,800 Ukrainian prisoners from the Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts. The evidentiary base ofContinue Reading
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a joint declaration in Beijing on 20 May on building a “multipolar world,” The Moscow Times reported. The text, published by the Kremlin press service, was signed alongside around 40 other documents and a 47-page joint statement on the strengtheningContinue Reading