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Ukrainian Christmas
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.
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25 October 2026
- InternationalFull speed returned to Ukraine’s satellite links on Saturday morning. “We simply enforced our terms,” Musk claims after blaming Washington for 10 days
- Military techThis is the fancy new F-16 Ukraine could get. It’s not what its pilots need most.
- OpinionUkraine now fights two enemies. One is America
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1703: White House announces ceasefire for occupied Oleshky, where residents face starvation and blocked escape routes
- Putin claims Russia is ready for new talks with Ukraine, calls occupied land historical Russia
- Russian plant supplying components for Iskander missiles reportedly struck by Ukrainian Storm Shadow missiles
- 40,000 tons of Russian diesel are bound for New York—due four days after Americans vote
- A modem from a Russian drone led reporters to its Chinese maker—which invoiced 500 for Russia’s drone plant
- Drone strike sinks cargo ship near Romania, killing Ukrainian sailor. Romanian President blames Russia
- Russia’s attacks on Black Sea shipping raise risk of global famine, German FM warns
- Austria expels Russian Embassy and OSCE diplomats over suspected spying. Vienna remains a Russian spy hub
- Russian Geran drone crashes in Moldova near homes and energy facility: Chisinau expels Russian diplomat
- Denmark rushes 50,000 cannon rounds to Ukraine to help F-16s hunt Russia’s advanced jet drones
- Ceasefire planned for occupied Oleshky as residents face starvation and blocked escape routes, White House announces
- Finland gives Ukraine 10 diesel locomotives that keep trains running when Russian strikes cut the power
- Ukraine frees 270 from Russian captivity in “historic” prisoner swap, including 5 Olenivka survivors and American teacher Stephen Hubbard
- 45 seconds of voting in the Lviv Oblast Council sparked a new dispute with Poland: Warsaw says Kyiv promised the UPA year decision will not take effect
- Russia may stage sabotage in Eastern Europe, but wants Kyiv blamed, Ukraine’s Intelligence warns
- Ukraine wants partners’ Patriot interceptors now. Europe can hand them over only with US approval, Ukraine’s president says
- The money starts as bags of cash in a Moscow market and ends up clean in China, leaked files show
- Russia has kept the Red Cross away from Ukrainian POWs since 2024. Now about 1,500 captives it never confirmed as prisoners face prosecution
- Russia keeps hitting Ukraine’s arms plants. Now private developers can dig them space underground—and sell or rent it to them
- The Starlink hot potato: Musk points to Trump, Trump points to nobody, then credits Musk with the fix. The speed limit stays
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1703: White House announces ceasefire for occupied Oleshky, where residents face starvation and blocked escape routes
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1702: Ukraine says Poland paused military aid package over Lviv vote honoring WWII nationalists
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1701: Kyiv finds remains of 40 Ukrainians killed by Polish WWII units
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.
Turkey’s Korkut guns now shoot down Russian drones over Ukraine. Almost half of the jet-powered Shaheds still get through
Russia launched about as many of the fast ones as slow ones in September, by one analyst's count, and its winter assault on the power grid is still ahead.
A Nobel laureate’s deal: free Russia’s prisoners, fund the missiles hitting Ukraine
The laureate is Dmitry Muratov, and the deal he urged on Washington would lift sanctions on Russia's war economy in exchange for releasing the very dissidents the Kremlin jailed.
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.
Ukraine keeps finding ways to replace its MiG-29s. It’s running out of MiG-29s to find
The latest loss came Thursday, when Capt. Marat Mambetov, 25, ejected after a Russian missile hit his jet on a strike mission but did not survive.
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 just accidentally crashed its first Tu-95 bomber in 11 years. Its missiles will keep striking Ukraine anyway
It is out of production and Russia's bomber fleet keeps shrinking, but a raid on 8 September needed just six bombers, and Russia still has around a hundred.
When Kremlin energy talking points come with an Oxford address
Russian energy disinformation does not always look like propaganda. Sometimes it presents itself in the form of expert analysis, a policy advisor, or technical commentary inside Europe's energy debate, and that is exactly what makes this new form of influence worth examining.
In Ukraine’s Vivaldi offensive, nobody rides in the BTR-60s. Bulgaria’s old troop carriers go into Russian bunkers packed with mines
Too thinly armored for infantry, 110 Bulgarian-donated BTR-60s now go into Russian bunkers near Lyman packed with anti-tank mines and nobody inside.
Europe and Ukraine already have the force to stop Russia. What’s missing is the alliance.
The war may reach Europe by 2027; NATO won't be ready until 2035. The fastest deterrent already exists: a declared alliance with Ukraine's combat-proven force.
Ukraine’s tanks are fighting from kilometers back. A 1960s Soviet model does that nearly as well
Ukraine captured more than 40 T-62Ms from Russia, mostly during the 2022 counteroffensives, and has not registered a confirmed combat loss since.
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.
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.
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
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.
