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11 November 2026
- Not even the unsanctioned tanker: Putin’s diesel for Trump turns away from New York
- Drones hit Ust-Luga port near NATO’s border, starting a fire and injuring three workers
- Russia says it is protecting Ukrainian children, but its occupation authorities have begun convicting them, Ukraine’s ombudsman says
- Blood by drone, then a monowheel and a robot: how Ukrainian Guardsmen got one wounded soldier out
- Ukraine says Russia sent at least 283 Indonesians to war in nine months. One prisoner’s story shows how
- OpinionRussia sends a heavier team to the Abu Dhabi peace talks. Four of its five negotiators are on record insisting on the Kremlin’s original war aims
- Military techUkraine has reportedly tested air-launched interceptors at the edge of space. The missile is the easy part
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1721: Abu Dhabi talks open with Russia still demanding the rest of Donetsk Oblast
- 252 MPs backed Ukraine’s Space Forces. One MP stopped the final vote
- Reuters: Ukrainian drone strikes disrupt 30% of Russia’s oil refining capacity, deepening fuel crisis as Moscow keeps exporting diesel
- Drone kills Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant electrician on his way to work, but the IAEA names no attacker
- Russia pressured Oleshky residents to flee to Russia, governor says. Most chose Ukraine anyway.
- South Africa detains nine foreigners suspected of trying to join Russia’s war against Ukraine
- Russia plans attacks on Ukraine’s food industry, including foreign-owned factories, in new campaign against civilian economy, intelligence source warns
- EU’s Black Sea pledges reach €70 million after drone strikes on ships leave 34 dead or missing
- Russia’s jet-powered Geran-4 can outrun the American Lancer 7 interceptor drone tested in Ukraine
- EU training mission for Ukrainian troops to set up a coordination presence in Ukraine
- Ukraine’s drone detector Pluton can now hear the mesh links that make Russian drones harder to jam, developer says
- EU defense commissioner: Starlink could lose trust if it breaks contracts European countries pay for
- InternationalDay one in Abu Dhabi: US officials’ “real shot” again runs into Russia’s unchanged demand for the rest of Donetsk Oblast, unacceptable for Ukraine
- Denmark says it outgives much bigger countries for its size—its 32nd Ukraine package is mostly air defense
- Il-76s haul Russia’s troops, Il-78s refuel its bombers—drones likely went after the plant that fixes both
- Ukraine says it hit a Russian Starlink jammer in occupied Donetsk Oblast, a week after an adviser warned Russia is fielding more
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1721: Abu Dhabi talks open with Russia still demanding the rest of Donetsk Oblast
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1719: Russia digs tunnels on Kherson’s occupied bank while Ukraine rolls out bigger ground robots
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1715: Russian three-ton bomb on aid queue kills 40
Full speed returned to Ukraine’s satellite links on Saturday morning. “We simply enforced our terms,” Musk claims after blaming Washington for 10 days
The SpaceX owner, who had earlier said the US government decides such limits, wrote that his company had closed a gap he says Ukrainian troops used for drone strikes.
This is the fancy new F-16 Ukraine could get. It’s not what its pilots need most.
Ukraine could buy newly built F-16 Block 70/72s from U.S. firm Lockheed Martin. But that's not the greatest need.
Ukraine now fights two enemies. One is America
In two weeks, Washington sanctioned the court prosecuting Putin, waived its own sanctions on Russia, and called him a humanitarian.
One year of Ukrainian arms exports, and industry has questions: how much army gained, where Berlin office is, who joins joint ventures
Ukraine promised to sell surplus weapons abroad 12 months ago. Its arms makers now ask why a fee of up to 30% still blocks the deals.
Starlink helped Ukraine pull off Operation Vivaldi. Now Starlink could help Russia take the ground back
The operation retook 277 square kilometers north of Lyman. The drones that now hold that line lose their Starshield link above about 160 km/h.
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.
Progress on a sore point for Ukraine and Poland: remains of over 40 Ukrainians killed by Polish WWII units found in Łasków
The find is the first in years from Ukraine’s searches in Poland, coming as Warsaw keeps pressing Kyiv over how it remembers the UPA.
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
The rest arrive in batches through 2029, and every sortie against Russia's jet drones brings the jets already in Ukraine closer to long inspections abroad.
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
The Russian air force parked six Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bombers out in the open at a base within reach of Ukraine's Neptune cruise missiles. Now at least four are wreckage.
Russia is losing the Black Sea grain war it started. Its answer is to sink civilian ships off Romania and Bulgaria
The burning ships off Romania and Bulgaria are the latest round of a contest Ukraine opened this summer, when it began choking Russia’s own Black Sea exports
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
This time Russia brought another army, and Dobropillia’s defenders have until the leaves fall to stop it.
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.
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
He explains why he thinks US President Donald Trump won't win the Nobel Peace Prize this year, and why Ukraine should.
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
Europe gave Russia years to perfect its aerial killing. Ukraine is paying the price. Europe may be next.
Russia has spent four years adapting its drones, missiles and tactics against Ukraine. As Russian attacks become harder to stop, Ukrainian civilians are paying the price – while Europe is increasingly worried about a threat it has had years to prepare for.
