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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.
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14 October 2026
- Ukraine’s tanks are back! But only because drones are escorting them.
- Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps took the lessons of the failed 2023 counteroffensive into Operation Vivaldi. It fought small, and won.
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1693: Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv before air raid sirens, as fears grow that the US could cut launch warning data
- Ukrainian scouts used a captured Russian soldier’s radio to gather intelligence for four days
- Ukraine wins seat on UN Human Rights Council, vows to seek accountability for Russian abuses
- Finland calls for EU tourist visa ban on Russians until Moscow ends war against Ukraine as bloc weighs tougher restrictions
- No contact with command, a comrade maimed by a mine. A former TV director fought—and halted the Russians
- Energy truce with strings attached: Kyiv reportedly told to spare Russian refineries or lose US intelligence and arms
- US continues sharing intelligence with Ukraine, Trump says amid Russia deal backlash. Questions remain over missed warning for latest attack
- Frozen assets, embargoes, entry bans: Ukraine names the pressure it wants the EU to put on Moscow
- Russia used civilians as human shields, then shelled them near Kupiansk, Ukraine’s Khartiia says
- Germany works to organize a Coalition of the Willing meeting as Russia strikes Ukraine’s energy sector
- France seizes Russian shadow fleet tanker in Indian Ocean, vows to combat illicit oil trade “wherever it may be in the world”
- Ukraine says it hit 12 Russian refineries in September. No refinery strikes reported since Trump’s “energy ceasefire”
- Germany detains two Turkish nationals suspected of torching a Polish Starlink station that helps route internet to Ukraine
- International“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
- The night Trump announced a diesel deal with Putin, drones knocked out more than half the tanks at a Russian fuel-export terminal
- “We don’t need to hit the entire plant”—Ukraine’s drones go for refinery parts sanctions make hard to repair
- Ukraine’s swimming robot can tow 10 tons, its maker says. Hook up a gun, and the shells ride aboard
- Russian strike collapses a Kharkiv apartment stairwell and kills three, days after the US waived sanctions on Russia’s diesel
- Ukraine’s largest steelworks begins cold shutdown after extensive damage from Russian strikes, saying safe operation is impossible while war continues
- Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv before sirens, gap that lands hard amid fears that Washington could cut data that warns of launches
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1692: Trump suspends Russian diesel sanctions, while EU blacklists record 1,569 arms suppliers
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1693: Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv before air raid sirens, as fears grow that the US could cut launch warning data
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1692: Trump suspends Russian diesel sanctions, while EU blacklists record 1,569 arms suppliers
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1691: Ukraine opens arms exports to 18 makers as defense output hits $55 billion
Two plants make 70% of Ukraine’s steel. Russia hit both. Then ports closed, rail costs rose 30%, and the EU’s carbon tax kicked in
The head of Ukraine's largest steel plant says the government needs a single rescue document with deadlines and assigned agencies, because each problem stalls when handled alone.
Vivaldi’s secret weapon was the targeting, not the robots: Third Corps reconnaissance mapped Russian command nodes, then hit them to cause panic
The officer said disrupting command and communications was one of the tasks set directly by the corps commander, with brigade and corps intelligence identifying the areas to strike.
Ukraine’s chief prosecutor fled. Politicians still choose the man who can prosecute them.
He is only the latest prosecutor general to leave the office in disgrace, and the office is the reason.
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.
“A warning to companies that remain”: Russia takes control of Nestlé and Auchan’s assets – companies that stayed in Russia following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
The companies had been warned that remaining in Russia could expose their investments to seizure as the Kremlin increasingly uses foreign-owned businesses as leverage. B4Ukraine says companies should leave while they still can.
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.
The West has tried everything except ending the war
Diplomacy, sanctions, 200 rounds of talks—Russia used all of it to buy time. Diesel prices in America are just the tsunami's latest wave.
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.
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 is running short of its best missiles for hunting Russia’s jet drones. Now MiG-29s are firing 1970s weapons
The R-73 was the missile for the job. Ukraine has burned through enough of them to bring back a weapon that was obsolete in 2022.
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.
