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Ukraine fired its first FP-7 ballistic missile in combat. Its maker says next version will do what Ukraine needed since 2022
Zelensky announced the launch on 1 October without naming the target, and wrote that production comes next.
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09 October 2026
- Ukraine reruns its Vivaldi playbook outside Kramatorsk and pushes Russia back across the Siverskyi Donets, ISW says
- Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026Russia aimed at Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. Ukraine’s Vivaldi counteroffensive stopped it with an attack drones were supposed to have killed
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1688: Russian strike on two passenger buses kills 30 in Kramatorsk
- Moldova pulls its border officers off Ukrainian soil again as Russian drones keep hitting crossings
- Blackouts return to Kyiv as Russia prepares to freeze civilians over the winter
- Lithuania puts up to 100 soldiers on Kaliningrad border as officials brace for possible Russian mobilization
- Two 14-year-old boys killed by an explosive device in a field in Sumy Oblast
- 80% of Moldovans say country is unprepared for attack as Russian drones flow into its airspace, but few back NATO membership
- Polish SIM cards found inside Russian drones in Poland, raising new questions over 2025 incursion
- Ukraine’s FM links Russian plague scare to history of cover-ups, from anthrax to Chornobyl and COVID-19
- Russia kills 30 in strike on two passenger buses in Kramatorsk
- Drone attack forces Yandex to shut down its data center on the grounds of a sanctioned Russian machine-tool plant
- A 3-year-old girl came to visit her aunt in Pryluky, Ukraine. By morning, a Russian missile had killed her grandmother and uncle
- Fewer targets, more waves: jet-powered Gerans partly free Russia to concentrate missiles, ISW says
- 22 killed in Russian missile strike on Pryluky, including five children
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1687: Russian missile barrage kills 22 in Pryluky on Putin’s birthday
- Sea drone vs. air drone: Ukraine’s Sargan-3000 turns anti-aircraft gunner
- Ukraine’s Frodo robot carries wounded soldier in first reported evacuation
- Ukraine is buying 135 mobile shelters for border crossings as Russian drones reach from the Danube to Poland
- It was built to shield Russian crops from hail. Now it’s being pitched as a drone interceptor
- AI is changing Russia’s drone war on Ukrainian cities, deputy air defense commander says
- Ukraine’s drone pilot calls it his proudest strike: cheap FPV drone detonating over two tons of explosives packed inside Russian mine-clearer
- Ukraine squeezes more defense out of Soviet-era stock, pairing Kub launcher and American RIM-7 interceptors to catch Russia’s jet-powered drones
The West has tried everything except ending the war
Diplomacy, sanctions, 200 rounds of talks—Russia used all of it to buy time. Diesel prices in America are just the tsunami's latest wave.
Russian spies ran a campaign against Kyiv on Anthropic’s Claude, and the AI chatbot’s maker caught them at it
The operators automated phishing, intrusion, and data theft, leaving the human to refine the workflows.
Ukraine retook 240 square km north of Lyman and nobody reported it for three months
The 3rd Army Corps attacked on 22 May and nobody outside the army reported it until late August. Whether it changes the war is the one thing the analysts do not agree on.
Ukraine is working down the short list of ships that shell its cities with cruise missiles. A Neptune reached one of them tied up at its own pier
Drones went in with the missile, and the general staff counts three more vessels and the port's fuel-oil storage hit the same night.
One Russian drone held up seven flights in Moldova, Zelenskyy’s trip to Norway for King Harald V’s funeral among them
The drone crossed Moldova twice that afternoon, and controllers shut the airspace over the center of the country for more than an hour, until after it came down in the north.
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 prosecutor general resigns as the watchdogs he was appointed to leash close in
He is the third powerful figure they've brought down. What looks like a government in crisis is a state where impunity at the top is ending.
Ukraine is sending its winning brigades to where the fighting is worst. The 46th just turned up outside Kramatorsk
Sloviansk and Kramatorsk are the last two big cities in the Donbas that Russia does not hold. The 46th Airmobile Brigade left the southeast in early July and reached them before anyone outside the army knew.
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.
Ukraine’s Swedish radar planes have flown inside Russian missile range for six months. None has been shot down.
Kyiv said nothing until this week. The planes can see 450 km, and Russia's best missile flies nearly as far.
Ukraine put its own peace proposals on the table as two US envoys reached Kyiv for the first time
Security guarantees topped the Ukrainian list, and the day's diplomacy ran in consecutive sessions that widened to include three European governments' security chiefs.
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 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.
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.
