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He is the third powerful figure they've brought down. What looks like a government in crisis is a state where impunity at the top is ending.
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11 September 2026
- Canada sanctions eight Russians over deported Ukrainian children as only about 2,500 of more than 20,000 have come home
- Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026Russia has eight ships left that can carry Kalibrs. Analysts say Ukraine hit three of them in one night
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1660: Ukraine strikes further into Russia than ever before, hitting gas plants over 3,000 km from its border
- Ukraine hits key Russia-Iran logistics hub in Caspian Sea, damages three Russian warships
- EU lawmakers renew push to seize frozen Russian assets as Ukraine faces its toughest winter yet with a €23 billion defense funding gap
- Romania plans to send 20 officers to support Ukraine, but presidential administration denies claims Romania is being drawn into the war
- US struck 5 Iranian tankers – 3 were also linked to Russia’s shadow fleet
- Canada pledges more than $1 billion for Ukraine’s critical air defense as Russia intensifies missile and drone attacks
- Can’t intercept the missiles? Hit the factories—Ukraine’s other way to stop Russia’s ballistic missiles
- Poland expects Russia to target border crossings as attacks on Ukraine escalate – Russia has already hit crossings with Moldova and Romania
- Ukraine says drones hit Russia’s gas heartland over 3,000 km from its border—a wartime record
- Russia rehearsed how to disable Europe’s undersea communications cables near Svalbard. NATO forces drove them off
- Kyiv couple marries after Russian strike ruins their home
- Ukraine’s Bulava drone can now hunt in the dark—one camera handles day and night
- He photographed Ukraine, then enlisted and died defending it at 27. Eleven years on, Viktor Hurniak’s story is still being told
- Ukraine downed a record 24,000 Russian copter drones in August—one per 1.5 km of front, every day
- Russian AggressionOne Russian drone held up seven flights in Moldova, Zelenskyy’s trip to Norway for King Harald V’s funeral among them
- Ukrainian commander, whose unit destroyed 57,000 Russia’s targets: US telling allies to brace for years of war at Ramstein means no “miraculous de-escalation” is coming
- Euromaidan PressRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1659: Fedorov returns from the US with plans for Ukraine’s largest defense-tech fund
- Ai-Petri’s maker began building EW gear after Russia took Crimea in 2014. It’s now shown system, named for peninsula’s highest peak, at Polish expo
- “I will continue to work just as productively”: former intelligence chief Budanov shrugs off third Russian arrest order as an acknowledgment of his effectiveness
- Russia is switching its cheap Molniya strike drones to digital video. When the change is complete, Ukraine’s analog detectors go blind, Flash warns
- Romania trailed a Russian agent for seven months—then revealed what he was filming
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1660: Ukraine strikes further into Russia than ever before, hitting gas plants over 3,000 km from its border
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1658: Ukraine’s new top commander is pushing to give combat-tested sergeants real authority
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1657: Ukraine’s newly appointed top commander wants to break with a Soviet-inherited system
Shares in Russia’s second-largest bank hit record low as Wildberries-linked offering price holds steady
VTB sought access to Wildberries’ 80 million customers. After drone strikes hit the retailer’s warehouses, Moscow considered making the bank central to a support plan.
Fifth drone-related NORSI shutdown in under five months leaves all major Lukoil refineries offline
Russia’s second-largest gasoline producer is offline as Moscow orders fuel redistribution and regional authorities tighten sales limits.
Glide bomb then infiltrate. This is Russia’s new way of war.
Russia's old tactics involved artillery and tanks. After four years of fighting, it's all about glide bombs and infiltrators.
Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive is more successful than we thought
The Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps has cut across a dangerous Russian salient in the east. All without telling anyone.
Frontline Rolls: Ukrainian soldiers document their lives at the front on film
The 2025 project is now a photobook and traveling exhibition after winning two international photography awards.
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 fires state bank chair after alleged $3.3 million bail-laundering scheme
The government and central bank also moved against Sense Bank’s CEO and financial monitoring chief while reviewing the bank’s entire supervisory board.
Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive takes the pressure off Sloviansk
Under strict operational security, the Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps has been counterattacking north of Lyman. For months now.
Russia turns failed drone defenses into grounds for state control of company assets
Russia can now take control of a company’s property and shares if it fails to protect key infrastructure from drones—even when the controller is foreign.
Ukraine escaped the empire in 1991. The empire struck back.
It took 22 years of Moscow holding the strings, and then an invasion, to make Ukrainians fight for the real thing.
Why did Ozon fall as much as 29% while Russia’s market lost 2.9%?
After five weeks of strikes on privately held Wildberries, attacks on listed Ozon gave investors a direct price for warehouse risk.
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 trying to get its guns within range of Zaporizhzhia. First it has to take a prison
The Ukrainian 118th Mechanized Brigade blocks any march on Zaporizhzhia City. But a Russian field army aims to disrupt the defense.
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.
