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A US-Russia deal won’t end the war. It will start the next one
Two American processes are converging on the same point: the cost to Russia of attacking NATO. A peace on Moscow's terms lowers the political price; a US troop drawdown lowers the military one. Moscow is waiting to read both before it moves.
Latest news
10 September 2026
- Kyiv couple marries after Russian strike ruins their home
- Ukraine’s Bulava drone can now hunt in the dark—one camera handles day and night
- He photographed Ukraine, then enlisted and died defending it at 27. Eleven years on, Viktor Hurniak’s story is still being told
- Ukraine downed a record 24,000 Russian copter drones in August—one per 1.5 km of front, every day
- Russian AggressionOne Russian drone held up seven flights in Moldova, Zelenskyy’s trip to Norway for King Harald V’s funeral among them
- Ukrainian commander, whose unit destroyed 57,000 Russia’s targets: US telling allies to brace for years of war at Ramstein means no “miraculous de-escalation” is coming
- Euromaidan PressRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1659: Fedorov returns from the US with plans for Ukraine’s largest defense-tech fund
- Ai-Petri’s maker began building EW gear after Russia took Crimea in 2014. It’s now shown system, named for peninsula’s highest peak, at Polish expo
- “I will continue to work just as productively”: former intelligence chief Budanov shrugs off third Russian arrest order as an acknowledgment of his effectiveness
- Russia is switching its cheap Molniya strike drones to digital video. When the change is complete, Ukraine’s analog detectors go blind, Flash warns
- Romania trailed a Russian agent for seven months—then revealed what he was filming
- A drone nearly hit Zelenskyy’s plane taking off from Moldova on his way to a king’s funeral, Norway’s PM says
- Mines and unexploded munitions have harmed 1,688 civilians since Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine says
- “We found the key to the Russians”: Ex-Defense Minister Fedorov returns from the US, planning Ukraine’s largest venture fund for defense tech and war think tank
- Far from any front line: Russia has hit at least five of Ukraine’s western border crossings with Moldova and NATO member since late August
- “Neither pickup nor Bradley can enter”: retreating Russians have mined sector where three Ukrainian oblasts meet so heavily that only ground robots can cross
- Ukraine’s top commander scrapped more than 30 obsolete General Staff orders, freeing field commanders from paperwork built for different war
- Osa air defense missile stocks are running low, but Ukraine has developed the RK-19 as a replacement
- Russia’s new ballistic missile could reach western Ukraine—and it may be tested there within months
- 20% to 70%: Ukraine’s National Guard rewired its drone war around cables
- Ukraine reported hitting warships and an oil terminal in a Russian port city whose mayor claimed only falling debris
- “In the best blockbusters you wouldn’t see this”: Ukrainian soldier on fighting off a Russian drone from a moving Humvee
- Norway sends 69 Russians home without their ship, held for Ukraine
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1658: Ukraine’s new top commander is pushing to give combat-tested sergeants real authority
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1657: Ukraine’s newly appointed top commander wants to break with a Soviet-inherited system
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1655: More than 400 Ukrainian defense firms push Kyiv to create single authority over $6.8 billion industry
Fifth drone-related NORSI shutdown in under five months leaves all major Lukoil refineries offline
Russia’s second-largest gasoline producer is offline as Moscow orders fuel redistribution and regional authorities tighten sales limits.
Glide bomb then infiltrate. This is Russia’s new way of war.
Russia's old tactics involved artillery and tanks. After four years of fighting, it's all about glide bombs and infiltrators.
Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive is more successful than we thought
The Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps has cut across a dangerous Russian salient in the east. All without telling anyone.
Frontline Rolls: Ukrainian soldiers document their lives at the front on film
The 2025 project is now a photobook and traveling exhibition after winning two international photography awards.
US C-17 spends 8½ hours in Moscow during first CIA chief visit since 2021
Washington reportedly asked Kyiv to pause strikes on Moscow and St. Petersburg while John Ratcliffe held undisclosed talks with Russian security officials.
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.
Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive takes the pressure off Sloviansk
Under strict operational security, the Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps has been counterattacking north of Lyman. For months now.
Russia turns failed drone defenses into grounds for state control of company assets
Russia can now take control of a company’s property and shares if it fails to protect key infrastructure from drones—even when the controller is foreign.
Ukraine escaped the empire in 1991. The empire struck back.
It took 22 years of Moscow holding the strings, and then an invasion, to make Ukrainians fight for the real thing.
Why did Ozon fall as much as 29% while Russia’s market lost 2.9%?
After five weeks of strikes on privately held Wildberries, attacks on listed Ozon gave investors a direct price for warehouse risk.
Russia’s thermobaric launchers used to just drive up and fire. Now they move one at a time, in steel boxes built to stop Ukrainian drones
Ukraine has knocked out at least 36 of them. Twenty-seven burned outright.
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.
Putin’s Mach-10 wonder weapon misses by 30 meters. Russia stopped building it in April.
Putin unveiled it as unstoppable in 2018. Ukrainian intelligence says the line stopped in April, and the fuel now goes to Iskanders.
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
Is a fifth or well over half of Wildberries gone—or can both counts be right?
Estimates of how much of Wildberries Ukraine has burned run from a fifth of the network to well over half. Which is right depends on what you count. And some of the loudest claims don’t survive a check.
