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Satellites alone don’t explain Iran’s nine-fold jump in strike accuracy — InformNapalm says Russian SOF doctrine does
Iran's missile hit rate rose from 3% to 27% in weeks. The data transfer was real, but without Russian SOF closing the loop between reconnaissance and fires, those numbers don't move that fast.
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12 April 2026
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1508: Ukraine leads drone war but runs out of time to share blueprint
- Best drone tech in world is in Ukraine. But it’s running out of time to export it, says UK defense chief
- First glimpse in years— wife barely recognizes Ukrainian soldier after weight loss in Russia’s captivity
- Ukraine proposes Norway access to its drone war secrets
- Ukraine’s general who lost Siversk just said what few commanders ever admit
- Fire engulfs Russia’s strategic rear: Ukraine hit fuel, ammo, and drone command all in one night
- Hungary votes Sunday: what could change if Viktor Orbán loses to Péter Magyar—and what may not
- Russia held them for years —Ukraine just brought home 182 prisoners, including Mariupol’s defenders
- Germany funds armored medevac fleet for Ukraine as one vehicle survives triple drone strike
- Tver hears blasts, Krasnodar burns: Ukraine’s drones reach deep into Russian rear
- UN: Civilian casualties in Ukraine rose 49% in March, with small drones killing more people than any other weapon
- Military techUkraine tips drone war in its favor
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1507: Russia offers the ceasefire it already rejected from Ukraine — Zelenskyy says the real battle is for Donbas
- Withdrawing from Donbas would give Russia a free path to Kharkiv and Dnipro, Zelenskyy warns
- Russian AggressionRussia’s An-series military transports were designed in Kyiv — and Moscow’s leaked documents show 143 of its 368 military Antonovs need urgent repair
- “Cultural propagandists” – Ukraine sanctions five Russian participants in the Venice Biennale
- Russia’s Black Sea oil hub resumes loading amid sustained Ukrainian drone campaign
- Ukraine strikes two Russian oil platforms in the Caspian Sea, nearly 1,000 km from the front
- Russia dismissed Ukraine’s Easter truce offer – then declared its own days later
- Money MattersRussia couldn’t take out Ukraine’s electricity. Now it wants the water.
- Russia strikes apartments in Konotop, Sloviansk, and Odesa, wounding three women
- Russia has no war goal and Putin is a “Punchinello,” says ex-DNR “governor” who vowed to exterminate Ukrainians
- Trump tells Hungary to vote Orbán two days before election as polls show opposition surging
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1508: Ukraine leads drone war but runs out of time to share blueprint
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1507: Russia offers the ceasefire it already rejected from Ukraine — Zelenskyy says the real battle is for Donbas
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1506: Russia races to triple drone army as Ukraine strikes oil artery feeding Black Sea port
NATO’s generals warn of war by 2029. Europe won’t be ready until 2035.
The gap between threat timeline and readiness timeline is not a planning error. It is a window.
Serbia clears Ukraine—no link to pipeline sabotage amid Hungary elections
The explosives had US markings, which Serbia's military chief noted proves nothing about who planted them.
Russia listed Ivory Coast as a “promising country” for influence operations — then ran four anti-Ukraine campaigns there in five months
Leaked documents from the Russian network "The Company," analyzed by France 24, reveal how Moscow ran four disinformation campaigns against Ukraine in Ivory Coast in 2024.
“There are no small literatures”: an American scholar on Ukraine’s battle for culture and truth
Showing atrocities doesn’t move people. Andrew Giarelli has been thinking about why and what works instead.
How do you prosecute a tanker that changed its flag nine times?
The Flora 1 had taken up to six names and flown up to nine different flags. Sweden couldn’t prove it spilled the oil.
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.
TurkStream pipeline explosives in Serbia are “most probably” a Russian false-flag operation aimed at Hungary’s election, Ukraine says
Explosives were found one week before Hungary's 12 April elections — Hungarian opposition leader and security experts had publicly predicted the operation days earlier.
Mongols, Soviets, now Putin: every empire told Ukraine “you are one of us.” None were right.
A Holy Week walk through Lviv's churches, three days after a Shahed drone hit a 17th-century monastery, finds Russia's boot print older than the building it just tried to destroy.
Armenia could quit Russia’s NATO-equivalent alliance and economic union if Moscow uses gas as leverage, parliament speaker says
Simonyan said on 4 April that a gas price hike would prompt Armenia to exit both the Russia-led CSTO military bloc and the Eurasian Economic Union.
Fico joins Orbán in demanding the EU lift Russian energy sanctions — a week before Hungary’s election that could end Orbán’s 16-year rule
After a call with Orbán on 4 April, Slovakia's PM claimed Brussels must immediately reopen dialogue with Russia and restore Druzhba pipeline flows — revenues that directly fund Moscow's war against Ukraine.
Ukraine’s big boom FP-2 drones just blew up four Russian Orions inside their Crimean hangar
As recently as last year, Ukraine concentrated most of its drone strikes directly over the front line. That's changing.
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.
Kremlin: Russia is forming new military units for “everyone,” including students
Reports say university rectors were told to push 2% of students into the army: up to 76,000 soldiers.
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
Ukraine fired its NATO trainers. The alliance is running out of time to learn why.
Ten Ukrainians eliminated two allied battalions in a day. The frigate crew never saw the attack coming.
