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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.
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08 October 2026
- 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
- Russia starts pouring more into war after Putin judged Alaska talks with US would bring no “acceptable” deal to end fighting — Bloomberg
- Kalashnikov, Russia’s biggest small-arms maker, says it fills its entire 2026 arms contract on time with batch of 7.62mm Dragunov sniper rifle
- Oleksandr, Kyrylo and Serhii, all aged one, and eight-year-old Maksym were killed in Ukraine’s city by Russian strike on Putin’s birthday
- Russia’s war against Ukraine sends the bill to its own companies: bond defaults head for a 17-year high
- Russia’s war on Ukrainian books: a second strike burns tens of thousands of a Kyiv publisher’s rebuilt titles
- Ukraine says it struck plant making parts for Russian military aircraft engines—a Snizhne factory Russia has used since 2014
- German radar already guarding Ukraine is picked to spot ballistic missiles. Its maker just signed a new deal with Kyiv
- Ukrainian drugmakers sold $114 million worth of medicines to Uzbekistan in six months. Now they may lose the right to sell there
- First time since 2018: NATO’s top military body went to Kyiv to study the war it may one day face
- Ukraine adds Kyiv trains, prepares pontoon crossings after Russian bridge attacks
- Russia’s jet drones fly near 600 km/h now. Ukraine is building simulators for the 900 km/h ones it expects next
- Taliban and North Korea rubbed shoulders at Russia’s war games—one fuels Moscow’s war, the other needs its help
- Latvia stops armed migrant push from Belarus, then loses border cameras to masked raiders hours later
- 25-year-old Natalia, born in Russia, served in the Israeli army, returned to Ukraine during the full-scale invasion, and join the Armed Forces of Ukraine
- 14 dead in Pryluky, two each in Kyiv, Kremenchuk, and Oleksandriia: Russia’s night of 70 missiles
- Ukraine finds US-made navigation sensor inside Russia’s new jet-powered drone
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1686: Sanctioned tankers carried fuel from South Korea to Russia
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1685: Ukraine fires its first FP-7 ballistic missile
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1682: Russian drones repeatedly hit Kyiv’s Southern Bridge, forcing transport restrictions across the capital
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.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1659: Fedorov returns from the US with plans for Ukraine’s largest defense-tech fund
Separately, mine contamination has injured nearly 1,700 civilians since the invasion began, with farmers hit hardest.
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 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.
Ukraine logged impacts at 11 sites while the American peace delegation was still in Moscow
The strike package mixed jet-powered attack drones, decoys, and cruise missiles across several oblasts.
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 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 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.
