ukraine’s-sheskharis-operation-wasn’t-just-about-drones:-partisans-say-they-blinded-russia’s-novorossiysk-air-defenses-first

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

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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

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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

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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

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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-documents-11,000-russian-fpv-attacks-on-civilians,-including-“double-strikes”-on-same-site-after-medics-and-firefighters-arrive

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

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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

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Nearly a thousand Ukrainians who finished criminal sentences in Russian prisons are now being held indefinitely in Russian detention centers. The Russian Defense Ministry recruiters press them to sign army contracts to fight against Ukraine as the practical way out, the Russian independent outlet Important Stories (IStories) reported Russia haltedContinue Reading