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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.
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23 October 2026
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1702: Ukraine says Poland paused military aid package over Lviv vote honoring WWII nationalists
- NATO’s weapons-buying agency opens dedicated door for Ukraine, non-member, letting it buy arms through its contracts and its firms bid for tenders
- Zelenskyy names three postwar security guarantees for Ukraine. Even Russia needs one of them, he says
- Military techOne year of Ukrainian arms exports, and industry has questions: how much army gained, where Berlin office is, who joins joint ventures
- Trump cannot get Putin to halt strikes on Ukraine’s power grid, so he blames Ukraine instead, Zelenskyy says
- Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026Starlink helped Ukraine pull off Operation Vivaldi. Now Starlink could help Russia take the ground back
- Russia kept sneaking troops through gas pipes behind Ukrainian lines. Now Ukraine has gone more than 15 km underground to do the same to Russia
- Ukrainian OSINT analyst: Russia’s Yandex data center in Sasovo burned out inside, though its roof shows almost no significant holes
- Drones reportedly hit a Russian weapons plant near Moscow that Washington and Kyiv sanctioned
- Fog blinds Ukrainian drones. Russia resumes mechanized assaults in the south after months-long pause, military officials say
- 35 US parts, a Chinese navigation unit, a Russian engine: what’s inside Russia’s Filin missile
- Russian missiles and drones kill one and injure 24 in Kyiv, splitting its metro line in two
- Denmark puts a $112.6 million state guarantee behind the maker of Ukraine’s Flamingo missiles
- Russia replaces its missiles as fast as it fires them, Ukrainian intelligence says. Its drone order this year tops 100,000
- Poland paused a military aid package over Lviv’s vote honoring WWII nationalists, Ukrainian source says. Polish ministry denies it
- From “bad-guy fleet” to “good-guy fleet”: US will let investors buy sanctioned tankers and return them to legal trade
- Romania shot down two drones it believes were Russia’s new Geran-4s. Europe isn’t ready for swarms of them, analyst warns
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1701: Kyiv finds remains of 40 Ukrainians killed by Polish WWII units
- War-hit Kyiv puts 85 European-funded buses on its streets. Here’s what riders find inside
- Ukraine’s Navy killed Russian Shahed: one drone boat launched another drone, which shot down third, all unmanned, all at sea
- Ukraine sends ground robot to string wire obstacles in open, taking its sappers out of kill zone
- Military techUkraine’s answer to Russia’s jet Shaheds: a jet drone named Bars, built to strike Russia and now turned around to hunt them
- Russian strikes close plant of Ukraine’s biggest aid backer. Its 3,600 workers and millions in taxes now hang in balance
Daily Review
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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
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1700: Trump says Russia has been “fine” toward Ukraine on the day a Russian drone killed six people in a Kharkiv Oblast park
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.
Ukraine is now sending its tanks into battle with drone escorts: they can drive into a Russian kill zone and come back alive
The 475th Assault Regiment, short of infantry, was clearing Russian infiltrators out of Vilkhuvatka, a Kharkiv Oblast village 9 km from the Russian border, and its hedgehog tanks took repeated hits on the way to point-blank range.
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.
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.
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.
For years Ukraine could jam or switch off Russia’s battlefield comms. Rassvet may be the first it can’t
Sanctioning the firm behind Russia's Starlink won't stop it. It can make every satellite slower and costlier to build—and the clock is short.
Two plants make 70% of Ukraine’s steel. Russia hit both. Then ports closed, rail costs rose 30%, and the EU’s carbon tax kicked in
The head of Ukraine's largest steel plant says the government needs a single rescue document with deadlines and assigned agencies, because each problem stalls when handled alone.
Vivaldi’s secret weapon was the targeting, not the robots: Third Corps reconnaissance mapped Russian command nodes, then hit them to cause panic
The officer said disrupting command and communications was one of the tasks set directly by the corps commander, with brigade and corps intelligence identifying the areas to strike.
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.
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.
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.
