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The drones that wrecked the road to Kramatorsk are still hunting. Ukraine’s answer: a Frankenstein bulldozer bristling with spikes
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10 November 2026
- 252 MPs backed Ukraine’s Space Forces. One MP stopped the final vote
- Reuters: Ukrainian drone strikes disrupt 30% of Russia’s oil refining capacity, deepening fuel crisis as Moscow keeps exporting diesel
- Drone kills Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant electrician on his way to work, but the IAEA names no attacker
- Russia pressured Oleshky residents to flee to Russia, governor says. Most chose Ukraine anyway.
- South Africa detains nine foreigners suspected of trying to join Russia’s war against Ukraine
- Russia plans attacks on Ukraine’s food industry, including foreign-owned factories, in new campaign against civilian economy, intelligence source warns
- EU’s Black Sea pledges reach €70 million after drone strikes on ships leave 34 dead or missing
- Russia’s jet-powered Geran-4 can outrun the American Lancer 7 interceptor drone tested in Ukraine
- EU training mission for Ukrainian troops to set up a coordination presence in Ukraine
- Ukraine’s drone detector Pluton can now hear the mesh links that make Russian drones harder to jam, developer says
- EU defense commissioner: Starlink could lose trust if it breaks contracts European countries pay for
- InternationalDay one in Abu Dhabi: US officials’ “real shot” again runs into Russia’s unchanged demand for the rest of Donetsk Oblast, unacceptable for Ukraine
- Denmark says it outgives much bigger countries for its size—its 32nd Ukraine package is mostly air defense
- Il-76s haul Russia’s troops, Il-78s refuel its bombers—drones likely went after the plant that fixes both
- Ukraine says it hit a Russian Starlink jammer in occupied Donetsk Oblast, a week after an adviser warned Russia is fielding more
- Europe still lets Russian grain through. Lithuania will make it wait and pay to prove it wasn’t stolen in Ukraine
- UkraineDetectives say the darkest part is still hidden. Ukraine’s president is already rushing to open security officers’ wealth to checks
- Russia aims to split Ukraine along the Dnipro, Ukraine says. Moscow’s strikes cut power in Dnipro and Kamianske
- Ukraine asked 1,616 soldiers what breaks them on front line. Top answer has nothing to do with Russian fire
- Covert Russian network uses France’s riots to paint Macron’s government as weak. Same operation targets support for Ukraine — Reuters
- Russia turns drone flying into a sport for kids and young people in occupied Luhansk Oblast. Its Putin-backed championship takes children from age 7
- Germany threatens to block EU’s next budget unless all 27 states help close Ukraine’s 70-billion-euro funding gap
- Russian attack kills three in Odesa and sets a warehouse of food for schools ablaze, a day before Abu Dhabi peace talks
Ukraine now fights two enemies. One is America
In two weeks, Washington sanctioned the court prosecuting Putin, waived its own sanctions on Russia, and called him a humanitarian.
One year of Ukrainian arms exports, and industry has questions: how much army gained, where Berlin office is, who joins joint ventures
Ukraine promised to sell surplus weapons abroad 12 months ago. Its arms makers now ask why a fee of up to 30% still blocks the deals.
Starlink helped Ukraine pull off Operation Vivaldi. Now Starlink could help Russia take the ground back
The operation retook 277 square kilometers north of Lyman. The drones that now hold that line lose their Starshield link above about 160 km/h.
Ukraine’s answer to Russia’s jet Shaheds: a jet drone named Bars, built to strike Russia and now turned around to hunt them
Zelenskyy says it has the best hit rate of any Ukrainian interceptor against the jet drones, about 30%, but the small jet engines it needs may be in short supply.
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.
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.
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.
America has sided with Russia against Ukraine. Europe should stop pretending and build a coalition against Russia, China, and even the US
In three days, Washington sanctioned the court that issued Putin’s arrest warrant, lifted its own sanctions on Russian diesel, called for Zelenskyy to step down, and declared an “energy ceasefire” that asks only Ukraine to stop firing. These are not the acts of an ally.
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.
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.
A Nobel laureate’s deal: free Russia’s prisoners, fund the missiles hitting Ukraine
The laureate is Dmitry Muratov, and the deal he urged on Washington would lift sanctions on Russia's war economy in exchange for releasing the very dissidents the Kremlin jailed.
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.
