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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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06 October 2026
- From making interceptors to guarding sky: Ukrainian drone maker gets its own private air defense unit and will pay for it from weapon sales
- Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026What if Russia uses nuclear weapons? Can we say Ukraine brought peace to world? Norwegian professor who nominated Zelenskyy and Ukrainians for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize takes on tough questions
- Russia burned 628,000 new school textbooks in Kharkiv at the peak of back-to-school season
- Ukraine wants to aim Starlink at Russian targets—and build a version Elon Musk can’t switch off
- First ton-scale drone lifeline: Ukraine flies 4 more tons of aid into a starving Russian-occupied town of Oleshky
- Ukraine demines over 1,300 hectares in September. Now, it has new plan to tackle 132,000 km²
- Ukraine says its strikes have knocked out more than 51% of Russia’s oil refining capacity
- Ukraine’s answer to Russia’s jet-powered Shaheds: a small new missile named Nika, heading into testing
- “We are staying”: EU embassies remain in Kyiv after Russia warns diplomats to leave or risk their lives
- “Mr Putin, put an end to this senseless war”: Merz in Kyiv, with €1 billion in military aid
- Russia’s drones keep targeting the bridges Kyiv can’t easily replace—now the Northern crossing is cratered
- Moscow trains its military pilots at Khanskaya. Locals report a fire there after drones attacked overnight
- Ukraine’s bomber drones, ones that dropped ground robots in its recent Donetsk counteroffensive, are getting 2.4-kilogram jammer to shield them from FPVs
- OpinionA Nobel laureate’s deal: free Russia’s prisoners, fund the missiles hitting Ukraine
- As Russia expands attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine prepares to hit Moscow’s oil industry harder in response
- Ukraine’s top general wants to end Soviet rules in army. But president’s wartime headquarters may still hold reforms, commander says
- “No alien quantum modems”: 1 to 3 concealed devices in Kyiv may be why Russian drones keep hitting so precisely, Ukraine’s top tech adviser says
- Ukraine’s $33 veterans’ gym subsidy drew 800,000 uses. Now it is gone, squeezed by war and stalled reforms, holding up $20 billion in aid
- Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026Ukraine fired its first FP-7 ballistic missile in combat. Its maker says next version will do what Ukraine needed since 2022
- Russia strikes second major Kyiv bridge in two days as attacks disrupt movement across the capital
- Three Russian missiles and two drones strike Moldovan territory in morning attacks on neighboring Ukraine. Moldova is increasingly exposed to the risks of Russia’s war next door
- Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026Ukraine keeps finding ways to replace its MiG-29s. It’s running out of MiG-29s to find
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1682: Russian drones repeatedly hit Kyiv’s Southern Bridge, forcing transport restrictions across the capital
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1682: Russian drones repeatedly hit Kyiv’s Southern Bridge, forcing transport restrictions across the capital
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1681: Russian drone hit Kyiv school sheltering more than 100 students and about 60 staff
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1680: Ukraine brings 14 more children home from occupied Kherson
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.
