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A Russian disinformation campaign cloned Euromaidan Press to blame Ukraine for Russia’s own strike on Kramatorsk (we took the fake down)
Ukraine may already be pushing Operation Vivaldi across the Zherebets River. It’s a risky gamble
A Russian cruise missile that doesn’t match its name fell almost intact in Odesa Oblast
Ukrainian monitors report fire near Russian plant that sold steel to an S-400 missile builder
Two weeks before Starlink’s speed cap hit Ukraine’s drones, a Ukrainian test satellite went up on a SpaceX rocket
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Full speed returned to Ukraine’s satellite links on Saturday morning. “We simply enforced our terms,” Musk claims after blaming Washington for 10 days
This is the fancy new F-16 Ukraine could get. It’s not what its pilots need most.
Ukraine now fights two enemies. One is America
One year of Ukrainian arms exports, and industry has questions: how much army gained, where Berlin office is, who joins joint ventures
Starlink helped Ukraine pull off Operation Vivaldi. Now Starlink could help Russia take the ground back
Ukraine’s answer to Russia’s jet Shaheds: a jet drone named Bars, built to strike Russia and now turned around to hunt them
Progress on a sore point for Ukraine and Poland: remains of over 40 Ukrainians killed by Polish WWII units found in Łasków
Belgium’s 10 F-16s bring Ukraine’s promised fleet to about 100 jets. Fewer than 40 are flying, as Russia’s jet drones run them ragged
Russia still parks its best bombers in the open. Ukraine has spent a year knocking out the air defenses that were supposed to protect them
Russia is losing the Black Sea grain war it started. Its answer is to sink civilian ships off Romania and Bulgaria
Russia is back at Dobropillia a year after it failed there. Now it’s the southern jaw of a pincer on Donbas’s last big free cities
America has sided with Russia against Ukraine. Europe should stop pretending and build a coalition against Russia, China, and even the US
Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps took the lessons of the failed 2023 counteroffensive into Operation Vivaldi. It fought small, and won.
“Now it’s your turn”: US envoys planned to show Moscow a refinery pause and a diesel deal, then ask for something back, a source tells Reuters
Europe has 11 ways to choke Russia’s war. It doesn’t need Trump’s permission for any of them
Russia is funneling the Ukrainian children it abducts into military camps and conscription. Ukrainian lawyer says world can legally call this genocide—but lacks the will
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“Supplying Crimea is turning into a nightmare”: Ukrainian drones hit Russian trucks 770 times in September, and winter will make it worse, analyst says
Armored assaults aren’t dead. Robots got the credit, but it was Ukrainian infantry in armored trucks that reversed a year of Russian gains near Lyman
What if Russia uses nuclear weapons? Can we say Ukraine brought peace to world? Norwegian professor who nominated Zelenskyy and Ukrainians for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize takes on tough questions
Turkey’s Korkut guns now shoot down Russian drones over Ukraine. Almost half of the jet-powered Shaheds still get through
A Nobel laureate’s deal: free Russia’s prisoners, fund the missiles hitting Ukraine
Russia replaces Ukrainians with Russian settlers in occupied Kherson Oblast; only 10–20% of pre-war population remains, Ukraine says
Oleshky ceasefire expands beyond occupied town as truce holds without reported violations
Ukraine intercepts nearly 60% of Russia’s Geran-4 jet drones, General Staff says, as Kyiv races to counter evolving threat
Ukraine says it hit drone hangars at Crimea’s Hvardiiske. Now an OSINT channel spots 20+ bermed shelters there
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Frontline report: Finland exposes Russian grey-zone sabotage by boarding cable-cutting ship in Baltic Sea
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Ukraine fired its first FP-7 ballistic missile in combat. Its maker says next version will do what Ukraine needed since 2022
Guns fall silent around Russian-occupied Oleshky so its starving residents can get aid, but Russia’s guarantees remain secret
The Trump administration is backing Orbán, who blocked a €90 billion EU loan to Ukraine, for UN secretary-general and is counting on support from Moscow and Beijing, WSJ says
Ukraine plans to rebuild its air force on NATO’s model by 2035. Its Air Force already knows which fighter it wants next, and why
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy welcomes Student List’s win in Serbia and says Kyiv is “ready to keep increasing cooperation”
Russia’s last “Ukraine peace deal” led to Europe’s biggest war since WWII. Here’s why this one could be worse.
Ukraine keeps finding ways to replace its MiG-29s. It’s running out of MiG-29s to find
Ukraine is now sending its tanks into battle with drone escorts: they can drive into a Russian kill zone and come back alive
Russia just accidentally crashed its first Tu-95 bomber in 11 years. Its missiles will keep striking Ukraine anyway
When Kremlin energy talking points come with an Oxford address
In Ukraine’s Vivaldi offensive, nobody rides in the BTR-60s. Bulgaria’s old troop carriers go into Russian bunkers packed with mines
For the third time this year, Ukrainian drones hit Russia’s rocket-fuel rubber plant in Samara Oblast. This time they reach the raw-material shop feeding it
Captured Russians say there is one place on Kupiansk front they will not go: “Orion” safety corridor
More than a US briefing: Brussels security talks on Ukraine planned for 27 or 28 October, Kyiv says
Russia apparently meant a tank division for Druzhkivka. A Ukrainian push in the south drew the bigger part of it away
Why is Ukraine losing ground? Mobilization crisis and command failures exposed
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“Dearest daughter, it’s total Hell. Death is everywhere” – Ukrainian father on the frontline
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The unsung heroes of the first battle for Kherson
Europe and Ukraine already have the force to stop Russia. What’s missing is the alliance.
Ukraine’s tanks are fighting from kilometers back. A 1960s Soviet model does that nearly as well
For years Ukraine could jam or switch off Russia’s battlefield comms. Rassvet may be the first it can’t
Two plants make 70% of Ukraine’s steel. Russia hit both. Then ports closed, rail costs rose 30%, and the EU’s carbon tax kicked in
Vivaldi’s secret weapon was the targeting, not the robots: Third Corps reconnaissance mapped Russian command nodes, then hit them to cause panic
Ukraine’s chief prosecutor fled. Politicians still choose the man who can prosecute them.
Europe gave Russia years to perfect its aerial killing. Ukraine is paying the price. Europe may be next.
Plane parts for Russia’s air force, rubber for its industry—Voronezh’s factories came under drone attack
Musk warns military use of Starlink could spark space war. Kyiv’s ex-disinformation chief says he’s building alibi after Starshield scandal
US midterms could restore Ukraine’s American aid and curb Trump’s Russia deals, if Democrats win Congress
Ukraine strikes Russian plant supplying batteries for ballistic missiles and glide bombs with Storm Shadow missiles, OSINT reports – another hit on Russia’s weapons supply chain
Yes, Ukraine can win the war – ex-minister decodes victory plan
“A warning to companies that remain”: Russia takes control of Nestlé and Auchan’s assets – companies that stayed in Russia following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
“I can travel back to Finland and be safe. That is a luxury”: Sanna Marin on the Russian strike that stopped her train from Kyiv
The West has tried everything except ending the war
Russian titanium plant in Urals reportedly hit by Ukrainian drones, 1,500 km from Ukraine
Ukrainian drones reportedly strike major shopping mall in Russia’s Belgorod overnight
Russian plant supplying components for Iskander missiles reportedly struck by Ukrainian Storm Shadow missiles
A modem from a Russian drone led reporters to its Chinese maker—which invoiced 500 for Russia’s drone plant
Russian spies ran a campaign against Kyiv on Anthropic’s Claude, and the AI chatbot’s maker caught them at it
Ukraine retook 240 square km north of Lyman and nobody reported it for three months
Ukraine is working down the short list of ships that shell its cities with cruise missiles. A Neptune reached one of them tied up at its own pier
Ukraine’s IT Army now aids drone strikes on Russian oil refineries
A realistic victory strategy for Ukraine
Ceasefire planned for occupied Oleshky as residents face starvation and blocked escape routes, White House announces
Russia keeps hitting Ukraine’s arms plants. Now private developers can dig them space underground—and sell or rent it to them
Russia’s tax service runs on two key data centers. Drones went after one of them overnight, along with a chemical plant that supplies explosives makers
Phones down, water off, a factory roof broken open: Russian-occupied Luhansk counts the damage after another night of drones
Analysis
NATO vows to defend every inch. Svalbard is where Russia plans to prove it won’t.
Is a fifth or well over half of Wildberries gone—or can both counts be right?
Russia’s biggest weapons maker has been under EU sanctions since 2022. Its 482 subsidiaries are the loophole.
Ukraine funds its war from wages, and a 1971 law keeps millions of women from earning them
Europe promised Ukraine a deterrence force. The missiles that would make it work arrive in 2029.
The butterfly effect that brought down Zelenskyy’s right-hand man
Ukraine is sending its winning brigades to where the fighting is worst. The 46th just turned up outside Kramatorsk
One Russian drone held up seven flights in Moldova, Zelenskyy’s trip to Norway for King Harald V’s funeral among them
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