Exclusives Towards clearer skies? What Ukraine gets out of the most recent Ramstein meeting—and what it doesn’t. The $4 billion buys Patriot interceptors now — but Ukraine’s home-grown Freya, five times cheaper, left Brussels with a partnership and no cash. As Russian air defense dwindles, Ukrainian glide bombs join theContinue Reading
Ukraine’s fund for repairing its war-battered power grid is €650 million short of what it needs for winter. On the eve of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk, the European Commission, Ukraine’s Energy Ministry, and the Energy Community Secretariat urged current and would-be donors to channel funds into the UkraineContinue Reading
DeepState assesses that Russia would need about two years to seize the entire Donetsk Oblast. OSINT project’s co-founder Roman Pohorilyi estimates that Russian forces would suffer “a colossal number of losses” to achieve it at the current pace of advance, in a comment to LIGA.net. The assessment quantifies the gapContinue Reading
Ukraine has codified an upgraded version of the Gyurza-2 armored vehicle. The Defense Ministry has announced that the vehicle was modernized based on combat experience and feedback from front-line troops operating it. The codification clears the upgraded Gyurza-2 for broader procurement and front-line deployment, with substantial protection upgrades from the originalContinue Reading
Exclusives Belarus’s exiled opposition hands Ukraine a 30-page file on how Minsk is being readied for war. The dossier reached Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha’s desk and lays out eight ways the regime has rebuilt the country into a launch platform for Russia, the report states. Ukraine has a million woundedContinue Reading
Nazar Bokii lost both hands and an eye to a Russian drone. The Ukrainian veteran returned to shooting and helped a workshop design an adaptive rifle, Army TV’s program “What’s that gun” reports. The adaptive rifle illustrates Ukraine’s bottom-up pattern of front-line military innovation, where soldiers identify needs and workshopsContinue Reading
A Russian drone strike in Sumy Oblast on 22 June killed a 13-year-old boy, his 36-year-old father, and his 73-year-old grandmother, the Regional Prosecutor’s Office reports. The boy’s 31-year-old mother, his 10-year-old brother, and his 13-year-old sister survived the strike with injuries. The Sumy Oblast Prosecutor’s Office opened a pre-trialContinue Reading
Ukraine has struck the Hlibivske underground gas storage facility on Crimea’s Tarkhankut Peninsula, Unmanned Systems Forces (SBS) Commander Robert “Madiar” Brovdi says. Madiar’s Unmanned Systems Forces hit the Hlibivske underground gas storage facility on the Tarkhankut Peninsula in Crimea on 19 June The same night’s target list also included theContinue Reading
Exclusive A Russian quad bike got a mine plow. Then it drone into Ukraine’s drone zone.. Mines blast Russian assault groups from below. To clear a path, one Russian field army modified an all-terrain vehicle. World draughts readmits Belarus. Its president sees Russia next as soon as the war ends.Continue Reading
The Australian Government will provide an additional $70 million in military aid to Ukraine for critical equipment, including air defense capabilities and munitions, the Albanese Government announces. The funding will be delivered in two $35 million tranches over the next 12 months through the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative.Continue Reading
The Netherlands will allocate $590 million in military aid to Ukraine, Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced, per Ukrinform. In The Hague, he met with his Dutch counterpart Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius. The assistance will consist of two parts: $295 million for drone production and $295 million for the PURL American air defenseContinue Reading
Russia’s largest oil company, Rosneft, along with Bashneft and TNK, halted the sale of gasoline in canisters at all gas stations across Russia, citing “increased seasonal demand,” according to Verstka. The restrictions follow a Ukrainian drone strike that damaged the TANECO refinery in Tatarstan on 12 June 2026, with anContinue Reading
Marines from Ukraine’s 30th Marine Corps are participating in the Sea Breeze 26.1 multinational exercise hosted by Romanian Naval Forces at Babadag Training Area, the corps announced on social media. The Ukrainian delegation includes unmanned aerial system operators, scouts, combat medics, and officers from a multinational battalion staff, with trainingContinue Reading