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19 June 2026
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1576: Drones hit a refinery 15 kilometers from the Kremlin. “Safe Moscow” is no more.
- “Safe Moscow” is no more – drone strikes are eroding the sense of security felt in Russia’s capital, SBU unit says
- UK to fund 150,000 Ukrainian-made drones and 350 air defense missiles in £752 million package funded by Russian assets
- Ukraine, Germany to jointly develop anti-ballistic air defense system amid increased attacks
- Oil storage site burns in Russia’s Rostov Oblast after Ukrainian strike on key fuel logistics hub behind occupied territory
- Finland ends nuclear weapons ban as parliament approves major NATO-aligned defense shift
- Russian services collecting Moldovans’ data for fraud operations, security agency warns
- Money MattersWhat does Russia do when sanctions strand ten ice-class tankers? It offers to buy them
- Russia returns another 522 bodies to Ukraine in latest repatriation
- Sweden adds $108 million to US-led arms initiative for Ukraine
- Russia set to import gasoline by sea as Ukrainian strikes cut refinery output
- Politico: photos of the burning Lavra helped turn Trump toward Ukraine at the G7
- Russian ballistic strike on Dnipro and drones on Nikopol kill two, injure 15
- “A matter of time”: Kostiantynivka now faces slow Pokrovsk-style siege, DeepState says
- Bloomberg: Trump to ask US arms makers to license missile production in Ukraine and Europe
- Interview“Poland and Ukraine need each other more than their leaders admit”— a Polish advocate for Ukraine on why the memory feud helps Moscow
- Occupied Crimea seizes 100 motorbikes in two days because they sound like drones
- Ukrainian drones strike rail bridge on Crimea’s Kerch–Dzhankoi line
- Military techUkraine’s newest drones don’t need Starlink. Russia spends $1.5 million to jam it anyway.
- Moscow refinery supplying 50% of region’s diesel hit by drones – second strike in three days
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1575: Ukraine destroys 250 Russian artillery systems in two nights
- Russia plans to open eight new cultural centers in Africa to court a loyal generation, HUR says
- “It is we who must thank you,” Dutch defense minister told Ukraine when announcing $590 million in aid for Kyiv
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1576: Drones hit a refinery 15 kilometers from the Kremlin. “Safe Moscow” is no more.
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1575: Ukraine destroys 250 Russian artillery systems in two nights
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1574: Ukraine and Sweden signed deal at Paris defense expo to mass-produce MAUL combat robot
Industry focus
As UGV adoption soars, Ukraine must write the playbook for saving soldiers’ lives
Number of units using UGVs doubled from 117 to 230 in six months
Ukraine is droning Russian ships. The goal: to create supply bottlenecks on land.
Ukraine's drones aren't just attacking Russia's supply trucks. They're now hitting Russia's supply ships, too.
Newly-announced Litavr interceptor is a model microcosm of Ukraine’s drone innovation programs
Each feature is an example of where Ukraine's interceptor industry is headed.
Russia tells its regions to raise taxes on residents and businesses to plug a record budget hole
The combined regional gap grew fivefold from 2024 and almost eightfold from 2023, with the tax service now pressing governors to find more revenue.
Russians pulled 30-year record of cash from banks in May. Central Bank now tracks monthly cash limits, can freeze “suspicious” withdrawals
Analyst cites geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty, internet outages disrupting online banking, and central bank rate cuts as driving the cash flight.
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 drones got bigger warheads. A Russian corvette in the Baltic just found out.
The Fire Point FP-1 that struck Boikiy at Kronstadt on 3 June crossed 1,100 km to get there — and arrived with a heavier warhead than the model that started Ukraine's deep-strike campaign.
“It was never formulated as Ukraine winning”—NATO’s ex-military chief on the missing strategy
It was also not formulated, "We're doing this so that Russia can lose this war." So the formulation became, "We're going to support Ukraine for as long as it takes," Admiral Bauer tells EP
EU urgency to dump Rosatom is growing but Russia will use every lever to prevent it
This is part three of a series of three articles exploring Rosatom, its role in the war in Ukraine, and Moscow’s international influence.
Russia more than doubles production of converted SAMs to make ballistic missile strikes even harder to defend
Missiles add few qualitative improvements but do add mass to Russia's terror attacks
Russia keeps four field armies fed through three southern towns. Ukraine’s drones just arrived.
A 1 June drone strike near Chernihivka hit the layer the Russians used to assume was out of reach.
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 is losing so many trucks it’s now eyeing Cold War scrap
How many more trucks can the Russians lose along Ukraine's highways before they must drag old trucks from long-term storage?
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
Not just nuclear power: how Rosatom fuels Russia’s war machine
This is part one of a series of three articles exploring Rosatom, its role in the war in Ukraine, and Moscow’s international influence.
