Ukraine could receive laser weapons for countering aerial targets within the next two to three months, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Andrii Lebedenko said at a briefing, according to UNIAN. Teams inside the Armed Forces and private Ukrainian companies are working on the systems. Ukraine’s main laser system is Tryzub, built by theContinue Reading
Ukrainians opposed the firing of their defense minister by 14 to one. A Rating Group survey conducted on 20-21 July found that 72% of Ukrainians did not support Mykhailo Fedorov’s dismissal as defense minister and 5% supported it, while 55% backed Oleksandr Syrskyi’s resignation as commander-in-chief and 15% opposed it.Continue Reading
Ukraine’s new military command is now complete, and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy says its first job is to change the army. The new leadership is preparing a modernization of the Defense Forces that must proceed in coordination and without easing pressure on the enemy, the president said in his eveningContinue Reading
Exclusives Crimea’s political prisoners lost their lifeline—because keeping it open would have put more people in prison. The Crimean Solidarity movement backed families of the detained in the occupied peninsula, arranged legal defense, and circulated information that fell outside the official Russian narrative. Some Ukrainian bomber drones aren’t carrying bombsContinue Reading
Ukrainian presidential adviser on defense technology development, Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, spent a day at a test range, jamming the control channel of its hardest air-defense problem. Ukraine is testing new electronic warfare means against jet-powered Shaheds, he said. Russia’s new Banderol jet-powered drone is fast, cheap to make, and dangerousContinue Reading
Former Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said in a statement on the morning of 22 July that he is passing on to his successor an army that not only holds the defense but is also on the offensive. He has seen this war “from its first day in 2014,” he wrote, hasContinue Reading
A Russian strike burned the supplies that keep Ukraine’s HIV epidemic under control. The attack on the night of 19 July completely destroyed a contractor warehouse of the Alliance for Public Health in Kyiv Oblast, where medical goods and HIV-prevention supplies were stored, the nongovernmental organization said on Facebook. TheContinue Reading
Ukraine is knocking down Russia’s newest cruise missiles with a gun designed in the 1940s. Soldiers of Ukraine’s 121st Separate Territorial Defense Brigade shot down Russian S8000 “Banderol” and Kh-59 missiles using old Swedish 40mm Bofors L70 anti-aircraft guns, the brigade said. The “Chaklun” (Sorcerer) crew downed one of theContinue Reading
Exclusives Ukraine’s protesters set a 24 July deadline as Zelenskyy weighs replacing his army chief. Organizers gave the government four days before nightly rallies begin. Why Russia is importing gasoline made from its own oil. To keep its pumps supplied, Moscow has written India’s gasoline price into its own taxContinue Reading
Ukraine put a grenade launcher on a robot that fits in the back of a minivan. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry has codified the new “Zmii Mini Strike” reconnaissance-strike ground robotic complex for fire support and destroying enemy personnel and armor. The platform’s base configuration mounts an MK19 automatic grenade launcher —Continue Reading
A Ukrainian assault regiment says it has cleared Kostiantynivka from Russian invaders. Soldiers of the 425th “Skelia” (Rock) Separate Assault Regiment reported that they conducted a clearing operation in a city in Donetsk Oblast and that the city is under the control of the Ukrainian army. The claim is aContinue Reading
Ukrainian troops will march through Brussels for the first time. A Ukrainian unit will take part in Belgium’s National Day military parade on 21 July, Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken announced. The Brussels appearance comes a week after Ukrainian troops marched at France’s Bastille Day parade, also a first. TheContinue Reading
A Ukrainian assault regiment says it has cleared Kostiantynivka from Russian invaders. Soldiers of the 425th “Skala” (Rock) Separate Assault Regiment reported that they conducted a clearing operation in a city in Donetsk Oblast and that the city is under the control of the Ukrainian army. The claim is aContinue Reading