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06 November 2026
- Fishing for drones: a Ukrainian box that fires nets at FPVs heads for serial production
- Ukraine just sent 28 armed robots at Russian lines with zero soldiers. Russia answered with robots of its own
- Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026Drone-proof armored bulldozer “clears the way” for Ukrainian defenders of Kramatorsk
- Trump meets a Kremlin envoy, then says a deal on Russia’s war “might involve all of Europe”—next week’s talks have no European seat
- Russia fired nearly 8,000 Molniya and Lancet drones at Ukraine’s front in a week. Nine in 10 were stopped
- “Just get into range”: Ukrainian F-16 pilot set record with M61A1 Vulcan cannon
- A report put words in his mouth, a Korean CEO says—he never told the magazine Ukraine dropped his AI
- Russian arms giant Rostec touts radar targeting for its Kalitka anti-drone gun. Russia showed the trick a month ago
- Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies team up with top volunteer whose fund bought 299,365 drones. $1.25 million from their previous deals goes to army
- Russia’s defense minister congratulated a division on taking Mala Tokmachka. A year later, that division is still trying
- Ukrainian maker DevDroid’s Droid Box now sends ground robots that lose Starlink back to point A
- A Russian refinery rated at more than 6 million tons a year burns again in Krasnodar Krai
- UkraineAkim, Price, Boxer, and Criminal: Ukraine’s latest wiretaps read like a mob movie, with real officials in the cast
- Military techRussian vehicles can now shrug off cheap drones. Near Huliaipole, Ukrainian pilots are sending one they can’t
- Oleshky’s evacuation was called a success, but some residents didn’t make it out. Now, the aid is still not reaching them
- Police find missing woman alive four days after Russian bombing of Komyshuvakha underground school. Death toll rises to 43.
- Crimea’s lights go out again—and Ukraine says two more Pantsirs were hit
- A Kyiv-bound Shahed carried a warhead and leaflets touting a “Ukrainian” brigade in Russia’s army
- Russian milblogger urges hitting Ukraine’s nuclear plants. ISW: without stronger defenses, last winter will likely repeat
- Lived in occupation, fought against Ukraine. Now, Kyiv says, Russia won’t take them back.
- Russian attacks kill nine civilians in Kherson, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Sumy oblasts in a day
- A Ukrainian ground robot hauls up to 500 kg—and tows broken robots back for repair
- At least 100 satellites, fast but maybe not as fast as Starlink: a Ukrainian firm sizes up a satellite network for Ukraine’s military
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.
Belgium’s 10 F-16s bring Ukraine’s promised fleet to about 100 jets. Fewer than 40 are flying, as Russia’s jet drones run them ragged
The rest arrive in batches through 2029, and every sortie against Russia's jet drones brings the jets already in Ukraine closer to long inspections abroad.
Russia still parks its best bombers in the open. Ukraine has spent a year knocking out the air defenses that were supposed to protect them
The Russian air force parked six Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bombers out in the open at a base within reach of Ukraine's Neptune cruise missiles. Now at least four are wreckage.
Russia is losing the Black Sea grain war it started. Its answer is to sink civilian ships off Romania and Bulgaria
The burning ships off Romania and Bulgaria are the latest round of a contest Ukraine opened this summer, when it began choking Russia’s own Black Sea exports
Russia is back at Dobropillia a year after it failed there. Now it’s the southern jaw of a pincer on Donbas’s last big free cities
This time Russia brought another army, and Dobropillia’s defenders have until the leaves fall to stop it.
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 3rd Army Corps took the lessons of the failed 2023 counteroffensive into Operation Vivaldi. It fought small, and won.
Five months in, it has erased 18 months of Russian advances toward Sloviansk.
“Now it’s your turn”: US envoys planned to show Moscow a refinery pause and a diesel deal, then ask for something back, a source tells Reuters
Ukraine’s part of that exchange was to stop striking Russia’s oil plants, a request Kushner repeated at the Miami meeting.
Europe has 11 ways to choke Russia’s war. It doesn’t need Trump’s permission for any of them
Three weeks after signing new Russia sanctions into law, Washington suspended them for Russian diesel, while the levers that would hurt Moscow most sit in European hands.
Russia is funneling the Ukrainian children it abducts into military camps and conscription. Ukrainian lawyer says world can legally call this genocide—but lacks the will
Kateryna Rashevska can walk you through exactly how one Ukrainian child disappears into Russia: the occupied-territory orphanage, the foster placement with a Kremlin-connected family, the re-education camp, the military uniform, the draft notice that arrives at sixteen.
“Supplying Crimea is turning into a nightmare”: Ukrainian drones hit Russian trucks 770 times in September, and winter will make it worse, analyst says
That's the most of any month this year, up from 630 in August, even though Russian supply trucks now travel in convoys with their own air defense.
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 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.
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
Europe gave Russia years to perfect its aerial killing. Ukraine is paying the price. Europe may be next.
Russia has spent four years adapting its drones, missiles and tactics against Ukraine. As Russian attacks become harder to stop, Ukrainian civilians are paying the price – while Europe is increasingly worried about a threat it has had years to prepare for.
