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A $50 computer just flew Russia’s newest jet drone into a Ukrainian grain ship—and jamming couldn’t stop it
Russia's fast, highly autonomous Geran-4 one-way attack drone is the weapon of choice for strikes on Ukrainian grain ships.
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14 July 2026
- Ukraine kills Russian radars with drones, then strikes through gap. France flew both in one package on jet Ukraine gets in 2028
- Ukrainian pilots opened the Bastille Day flypast from French fighter jets
- Denmark sent Ukraine something essential that keeps F-16 parts airworthy
- Ukrainian politicsUkraine just dismissed the premier who opened its weapons exports
- AnalysisHungary swapped its pro-Russian prime minister. Yet it is still blocking Ukraine’s path to the EU.
- InterviewThe US Army’s former commander in Europe is “withholding applause” for Trump’s Patriot pledge—and expects no interceptors before winter.
- Ukraine is building a flight school under fire—and the simulator delivery shows how fast
- Military techA $50 computer just flew Russia’s newest jet drone into a Ukrainian grain ship—and jamming couldn’t stop it
- Money MattersRussia has the oil. It no longer has the gasoline—so Russians are learning to make their own
- Hungary votes to remove Orbán-loyal president as Magyar dismantles Fidesz system
- Two months in office, three blows to Ukraine: Bulgaria’s premier stacks Coalition of the Willing exit on aid freeze and sanctions blocks
- Warsaw refuses to lift its embargo on Ukrainian agricultural products
- Europe’s answer to the Patriot costs $700,000 a shot—and no foreign government can switch it off
- 116 Russian ships in nine days: One big export tanker needs 12–15 small ones to fill it. Ukraine is burning the small ones
- Russia’s ex-space chief calls for “systematic zeroing out” of the Starlink satellite constellation
- Ukraine votes to dismiss its PM. She hasn’t accepted the exit job offered
- Money MattersRussia stalled bankruptcy reform for six years—then passed it in two days
- A plant making 150 products from gasoline to polyethylene caught fire 1,300 km from the war zone—Ukraine hits two refineries overnight
- Olenivka officials and Taganrog jail land on EU sanctions list for abuse of Ukrainian prisoners
- “Incredible legacy for him”: Days after Graham’s death, Trump says he’s ready to move on his Russia sanctions bill
- Ukraine put armed robot on Russian-held ground. Naval drone was landing craft
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1601: Ukraine’s Crimea blockade nears 100 ships
- Ukraine’s Supreme Court refused to lift Zelenskyy’s sanctions on opposition leader
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1601: Ukraine’s Crimea blockade nears 100 ships
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1598: Ukraine batters Russia’s Crimea fuel lifeline as drone swarm hits 48 ships in five days
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1597: Ukraine races to build its own missile shield as Russian ballistic strikes triple
Industry focus
A Kyiv court gagged reporters probing the anti-corruption chief’s brother’s 143 properties—no lawsuit required
No verdict, no trial—just a ban, and a lawsuit that may never come
Ukraine’s reserves fell for four months. Oil eased for one, and they grew back.
The buffer that drained all spring just grew again. A new spike in oil prices says not for long.
Kostiantynivka: Why one city in Donbas matters so much that Putin lies about having captured it
Putin declared the city “liberated” while Ukrainian troops still held it, a lie aimed at the negotiating table, not the battlefield
Russia is running out of its best eyes in the sky
Russia's giant radar early warning planes can spot incoming Ukrainian missiles. What happens when there aren't enough planes?
From Karelia to Kamchatka: Russia rations fuel where drones strike and stockpiles it where they cannot
A drone campaign against refineries has Russians buying gasoline by QR code, license-plate number, and five-hour queue.
Russia’s last “Ukraine peace deal” led to Europe’s biggest war since WWII. Here’s why this one could be worse.
Moscow isn’t just negotiating—it’s setting the stage. Behind closed doors, familiar tactics are at play, and the consequences could reshape Europe’s future once again.
“Just give me some proof that my son is alive”: Mother from Kherson spends five years searching for her son, taken away by Russians from Oleshky boarding school
Emil foundation names four reasons Russia holds adult Ukrainians with disabilities.
Russia now loses more soldiers than it recruits. But the war won’t end because of that.
For the first time, Russia’s losses outrun its recruits—four years of General Staff data explain why that still won’t end the war.
Russia banned her for studying the famine it denies. She put it online for the whole world anyway.
Millions of Ukrainians died in the Holodomor—Stalin's deliberate starvation of Ukraine in 1932–33. Russia calls it a hoax—all while it replicates its methods in occupied Ukraine. Marta Baziuk, who helped build a course on the Holodomor, explains why the famine matters now—and why the course she helped build could only exist now.
The one sport moving against Russia is run by its ex-deputy PM
Moscow has hijacked the federation, says Malcolm Pein, the English delegate now standing for deputy president on a ticket challenging the Russian incumbent.
Trump’s spiritual adviser says he never knew about Kherson’s “human safari”
Pastor Mark Burns pledges to raise Kherson's drone siege with Congress and the president after learning of it for the first time.
Why is Ukraine losing ground? Mobilization crisis and command failures exposed
Ukraine's military problems can no longer be ignored as mobilization failures and systemic issues lead to mounting territorial losses
Evergreens
Yes, Ukraine can win the war – ex-minister decodes victory plan
Zelenskyy's plan and Ukraine's victory are completely realistic, says Andriy Zagorodnyuk. But there is a crucial caveat -- the current paradigm must be changed.
Ukraine can win the battles. Without the word “victory,” it loses the war.
NATO's former deputy commander says no one but Ukraine names victory as the goal. Ukraine's former defense minister warns that without naming it, even a battlefield win is no victory at all.
A realistic victory strategy for Ukraine
In a war where offensive operations are equally difficult on both sides, not losing is already winning in the next year and a half
Analysis
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.
