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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.
Latest news
25 September 2026
- Ukraine’s soldiers cracked problem US chased for 30 years: a drone that ferries combat robot deep into enemy rear
- A report says US intelligence warned France of Russian ship-launched drones. France denies it
- Seventeen makers head to Michigan to test bomber drones for the Pentagon, and Ukrainian firms are back in field, some under US partners
- Ukraine’s new military AI does more than watch the battlefield—it helps commanders plan what comes next
- Ukraine is opening access to 5 million frames of real combat to 12 British weapons makers to train AI
- “Killing Ukraine’s internet would take nuclear or chemical weapons”—MiroHost founder whose data center Russia just destroyed
- They say Dobropillia is encircled, but they are actually 10+ km away: ISW publishes map disproving Russia’s claim
- A bottle of flammable liquid in Poland, a nuclear option on a Russian wish-list—the hunt for Starlink widens
- Russia strikes second civilian ship in Black Sea in six days, killing both captains to choke route that carries 90 percent of Ukraine’s farm exports
- Ukraine’s Mirage had killed a cruise missile on its first combat sortie. France just sent more of the missiles that reach 80 km
- ISW connects drone crashes in Moldova and Romania, a Starlink fire in Poland, and a Berlin airport shutdown into one Russian pattern
- Zelenskyy says Ukraine has agreed on a new Patriot interceptor package—won’t say with whom
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1674: Eight months of 2026 have brought more Ukrainian civilian casualties than all of last year
- For the 17th or 18th time, Putin promised to take Donetsk “in a few months” – Zelenskyy
- Russia spreads false encirclement claims from Dobropillia to Kharkiv — ISW
- Russian-linked software sold to US government as CEO allegedly hid Russian control – two now arrested
- Ukraine put robots where its soldiers used to die clearing mines—and lost none
- EU approves nearly €3 billion for Ukraine as Kyiv meets more reform targets
- Eight months of 2026 brought more Ukrainian civilian casualties than all of last year, UN says
- Russian attack puts three countries on alert as drones enter Moldova and Romania
- Russia could launch limited attacks on NATO in coming months, escalating hybrid warfare without being ready for full-scale conflict, Denmark warns
- Croatia approves Ukrainian Nord Stream suspect’s extradition to Germany despite Polish refusal
- He started as a driver. Now he pilots Ukraine’s heavy strike drones
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1674: Eight months of 2026 have brought more Ukrainian civilian casualties than all of last year
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1673: Ukraine’s two steel plants, which produce 70% of country’s steel, are buckling under Russian strikes
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1672: Ukraine’s counteroffensive in Donetsk Oblast advances by stealth
Ukraine is running short of its best missiles for hunting Russia’s jet drones. Now MiG-29s are firing 1970s weapons
The R-73 was the missile for the job. Ukraine has burned through enough of them to bring back a weapon that was obsolete in 2022.
Ukraine is taking 1980s Leopards from across Europe and giving them radar-guided anti-drone guns and gunner-less turrets
Thirty-one get a Belgian turret the crew doesn't sit in. Others become radar-guided drone killers, built in Rome and paid for with frozen Russian money.
Russia destroyed most of Ukraine’s big warehouses. Now the country is scrambling to build small ones everywhere
Whether they can do it before winter, and at what cost to prices, is the question now hanging over the country's food supply.
Desperate to save Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, Ukrainian forces counterattack and reinforce
A Russian pincer is slowly closing around the last two big free cities in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. Winter will be a brief reprieve.
NATO vows to defend every inch. Svalbard is where Russia plans to prove it won’t.
The CIA chief’s visit to Moscow gave rise to warnings that Russia may be preparing to strike the Baltics. However, Russia has an easier target for the goal of paralyzing NATO.
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.
Russia keeps striking Ukraine’s energy system. Winter resilience plans are less than half complete
Ukraine is racing to shield heat, water, and rail from Russian strikes—but new locomotives will not arrive before 2027.
Ukraine has five ways to stop Russia’s Iskanders. Only one arrives before the strikes on the grid begin
It means finding a launcher in a forest during the twenty minutes it spends above ground.
A rare Ukrainian Bulat tank turned up in a brigade that never had them
Ukraine wanted 400 of the up-armored T-64s and built about 80. Nobody can say how the 57th Motorized Brigade got one.
Russia drove most ships from Ukraine’s ports. Now its drones are hunting the trains
By late August, Ukraine had exported only a third of its normal volume of farm goods. Russia damaged more than 250 locomotives in six months.
Shares in Russia’s second-largest bank hit record low as Wildberries-linked offering price holds steady
VTB sought access to Wildberries’ 80 million customers. After drone strikes hit the retailer’s warehouses, Moscow considered making the bank central to a support plan.
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.
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.
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.
