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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.
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16 September 2026
- He thought Ukrainian army uniform would hide what he did under occupation. It didn’t. Man who guarded Kherson’s Russian-run prison drew eight years
- A drone came down beside a Bundeswehr air base, weeks after Berlin blamed Moscow for the Leipzig airport attack
- Ukraine’s Build with Ukraine has 200-plus foreign cooperation bids pending decision. Its arms industry, representing 400-plus firms, wants to help fix mechanism
- In April, 24 Ukrainian companies ran their own air defense. By mid-September, 81 do — about one new firm per day
- For first time, foreign government is funding Ukrainian drone school: Canada picks foundation that has already bought Ukraine nearly $50M in drones
- Ukrainian partisans claim sabotage at Russian plant supplying missiles Moscow uses to bomb Ukrainian cities
- Strikes on UN warehouses push aid money from delivery to protection
- OpinionThe West has tried everything except ending the war
- Ukraine’s Vivaldi counteroffensive disrupts Russia’s plan to encircle Donetsk Fortress Belt – ISW
- Kushner’s “win-win” peace deal is impossible when Putin wants all of Ukraine — Zelenskyy
- Russian general killed in Ukraine weeks after telling Putin Kostiantynivka was captured
- Russian drone killed five people on a scheduled minibus in southeastern Ukraine
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1665: Ukraine reveals a secret counteroffensive in northern Donetsk, saying it has cleared Russian infiltrators and retaken ground in an operation it calls Vivaldi
- “Only the first season” – Ukraine unveils secret counteroffensive in a region Russia has been trying to seize for 12 years
- Russia brings children from Moldova’s Transnistria to occupied Crimea for “patriotic education”
- “Huge increase” in Russian assault groups trying to break through to Dobropillia, but they are using familiar tactics, staff sergeant says
- Russian warship fires flares at Danish military helicopter as Moscow’s provocations escalate
- Chinese drones over German bases, paid saboteurs lighting fires for Russia—Germany’s military spells out the new normal
- Poland can’t arrest its way out of Russia’s spy pipeline—107 espionage cases in 20 months, and the tempo is holding
- Finland approves second-largest defense package for Ukraine as Russia’s next brutal winter campaign looms
- Russia has damaged 500+ Ukrainian locomotives as attacks on railways reach Polish border
- Russia keeps hitting Kyiv’s gas stations. Now they get military air-threat tracking
- 19 Russian defense companies remain outside international sanctions, helping sustain Russia’s war machine
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1665: Ukraine reveals a secret counteroffensive in northern Donetsk, saying it has cleared Russian infiltrators and retaken ground in an operation it calls Vivaldi
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1664: Zelenskyy says Ukraine will only accept energy truce if West guarantees Moscow won’t break it after elections
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1663: Russia strikes a passenger train near the Polish border as drone swarms push deeper into western Ukraine
Russia keeps striking Ukraine’s energy system. Winter resilience plans are less than half complete
Ukraine is racing to shield heat, water, and rail from Russian strikes—but new locomotives will not arrive before 2027.
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 rare Ukrainian Bulat tank turned up in a brigade that never had them
Ukraine wanted 400 of the up-armored T-64s and built about 80. Nobody can say how the 57th Motorized Brigade got one.
Russia drove most ships from Ukraine’s ports. Now its drones are hunting the trains
By late August, Ukraine had exported only a third of its normal volume of farm goods. Russia damaged more than 250 locomotives in six months.
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.
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.
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.
US C-17 spends 8½ hours in Moscow during first CIA chief visit since 2021
Washington reportedly asked Kyiv to pause strikes on Moscow and St. Petersburg while John Ratcliffe held undisclosed talks with Russian security officials.
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.
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.
The Fedorov protesters lost. But they backed a man for what he built, not what he promised—and that may be new in Ukraine.
For twenty years, Ukrainians voted for the biggest promises. This summer they marched for a record instead—and a scholar thinks that's the real story.
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.
