Ukrainian drone strikes, pipeline damage, and tanker seizures have halted at least 40% of Russia’s oil export capacity — around 2 million barrels per day — in what Reuters calculated on 25 March as the most severe oil supply disruption in modern Russian history. The shutdown combines port strikes, pipeline damage, and tankerContinue Reading
Ukrainian long-range strike drones hit the Gazprom Ust-Luga gas processing complex in Russia’s Leningrad Oblast overnight on 24–25 March, according to Militarnyi — the first assault on the facility in 2026. In the same region, a ship at the Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant reportedly also sustained damage in the same overnight campaign. UkraineContinue Reading
Hackers obtained a confidential Rosneft presentation on protecting its refineries, oil depots, pump stations, and other facilities from Ukrainian drone strikes, Militarnyi reported. Intelligence firm Dallas Analytics published the 2026 document, which lays out eight physical barrier designs — each followed by the company’s own list of why it fails. Ukraine’s strikes on Russian oil infrastructure have become oneContinue Reading
A classified Russian military flight safety report covering 29 December 2025 to 18 January 2026, obtained and published by OSINT team OsintFlow, documents 24 aviation incidents across Russia’s combat and transport fleets — with engine failures accounting for more than a third of all cases and a pattern of near-identical symptoms repeating atContinue Reading
A Kyiv court forced Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office to open criminal proceedings against Mariana Bezuhla, a member of parliament from President Zelenskyy’s ruling Servant of the People party, under four criminal articles, including wartime high treason, Liga reported on 19 March. Investigators must establish whether her public posts about frontline troop movements enabledContinue Reading
Twenty-five of 27 EU leaders formally backed Ukraine’s €90 billion loan and its path to EU membership at a Brussels summit on 19 March, according to the European Council. Hungary and Slovakia, led by their pro-Russian governments, declined to support the conclusions. The loan remains frozen as the EU entersContinue Reading
Russian forces launched multi-sector assaults along the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia fronts on 17–18 March, suffering heavy casualties without advancing at any point, according to Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (SBS). Brovdi assessed that Russia’s anticipated spring-summer offensive can be considered “partially uncorked,” while Ukraine’s General Staff reported sharply rising dailyContinue Reading
Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck over 20 Russian air defense targets in the first half of March, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense reported on 18 March. The strikes targeted surface-to-air missile systems, radar stations, and electronic warfare assets across occupied Ukrainian territory and Krasnodar Krai in Russia proper. Each destroyed asset punches a newContinue Reading
Latvia’s Riga City Court has sentenced an Azerbaijani national to 11 years in prison for procuring and illegally supplying Starlink satellite terminals and other military-grade equipment to Russian forces for use in the war against Ukraine, Delfi reported on 17 March, citing Latvia’s prosecution service. The case was investigated by Latvia’s State Security ServiceContinue Reading
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas directly contradicted Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever’s call to normalize relations with Russia and restore cheap energy imports, Reuters reported. Kallas said she saw no appetite for such moves among EU leaders — including behind closed doors — and warned that returning to business asContinue Reading
Ukrainian forces are conducting clearing operations in the central part of Hryshyne, northwest of Donetsk Oblast’s Pokrovsk, while simultaneously striking Russian troop concentrations in Pokrovsk’s northwest with drones, the 7th Rapid Reaction Corps of Ukraine’s Airborne Assault Forces reported on 15 March. The Institute for the Study of War confirmed that Russian forces attackedContinue Reading
Russian propaganda was strongly linked to combat motivation, cut voluntary surrender rates, and normalized dehumanization of Ukrainians among captured servicemembers, according to a landmark study by Ukrainian NGO LingvaLexa. Titled “Words That Kill: How Russian Propaganda Shapes Mobilization and Combat Motivation,” the research surveyed 1,060 Russian prisoners of war underContinue Reading