Olena Mukhina

Ukraine’s president has taken the question of Patriot production to the company that builds the missile.  Volodymyr Zelenskyy met a team from the American defense company Raytheon and said Ukraine is negotiating joint production of interceptors for the Patriot air defense systems, one of the country’s key air defenses, heContinue Reading

Ukraine’s newest frontline motorcycle can carry two soldiers, avoid the mines that kill trucks, and recharge a unit’s drones. The Defense Ministry codified the MUL.E, Ukraine’s first all-wheel-drive electric motorcycle, and cleared it for use in the Armed Forces, the Defense Ministry announced. Motorcycles have become one of the mostContinue Reading

Russia has connected two of its drones that could not talk to each other before. Ukraine has documented a case in which Russia controlled “Molniya” drones via “Gerbera” relay drones over a MESH network, which was previously impossible due to a licensing restriction, presidential adviser on defense technology development SerhiiContinue Reading

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