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Europe and Ukraine already have the force to stop Russia. What’s missing is the alliance.
The war may reach Europe by 2027; NATO won't be ready until 2035. The fastest deterrent already exists: a declared alliance with Ukraine's combat-proven force.
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02 October 2026
- Ukraine’s former defense minister, dismissed suddenly, has announced Army of Robots. He says target is $10,000 per unit and need is tens of thousands
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1681: Russian drone hit Kyiv school sheltering more than 100 students and about 60 staff
- Europe wants drones that actually work in war, so Ukrainian maker is moving in to build them in Belgium and Luxembourg
- Russia’s 2026 deficit nearly doubles to a record $88 billion, and its new budget plans three more years in the red
- Russia lost 2026-record 46,230 troops in September by Ukraine’s count, as fighting around Donetsk fortress cities grinds on
- Two rubles for the army for every one on welfare, schools, and hospitals: Russia’s 2027 wartime budget
- Ukraine’s steel output fell 57% and may hit zero next month. Expert says saving it comes down to four steps, and they’re Brussels’ to make
- Ukraine solves riddle of metal “whiskers” on new Russia’s drones. They aren’t clever sensor
- Belgium will send three F-16 fighter jets, but maintenance delays may keep Ukraine from using them
- Ukraine is downing Russia’s fastest drones—just not often enough, and scaling up comes down to money
- A school with children, a café, warehouses: Russia’s drones hit civilian Kyiv again
- Russian glide bombs scarred a statue of Christ and damaged a 19th-century church in Sumy
- Moscow’s message to European business: your Russian assets are now leverage against your governments
- Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026Ukraine is now sending its tanks into battle with drone escorts: they can drive into a Russian kill zone and come back alive
- There is no risk of Russia using nuclear weapons against the Baltics, Rutte assures
- The US has until 18 October to choose its Russia sanctions targets—if any. Kyiv’s wish list leads with the firms feeding Russia’s Starlink clone
- Russia just accidentally crashed its first Tu-95 bomber in 11 years. Its missiles will keep striking Ukraine anyway
- Robots won’t replace armored vehicles, says Ukrainian company that builds both. It reveals one job they can’t do
- Ukraine’s training facilities get boost: EU is funding centers where its army prepares soldiers, with Denmark putting in €33 million
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1680: Ukraine brings 14 more children home from occupied Kherson
- Russia is now wiring its attack drones into one network in flight, so a single drone can scout, strike, and relay for the rest
- Ukrainian combat simulator, used to train more than 500,000 troops, can now be ordered from NATO’s supply catalogs by single code
- Ukraine brings 14 more children home from Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast. One of them was being forced onto Russia’s military rolls
Daily Review
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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
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1679: Russia raises its war budget by 27% to a record as it looks to grow its war in 2027
Ukraine’s prosecutor general resigns as the watchdogs he was appointed to leash close in
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.
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.
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 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.
Ukraine is taking 1980s Leopards from across Europe and giving them radar-guided anti-drone guns and gunner-less turrets
Thirty-one get a Belgian turret the crew doesn't sit in. Others become radar-guided drone killers, built in Rome and paid for with frozen Russian money.
Russia destroyed most of Ukraine’s big warehouses. Now the country is scrambling to build small ones everywhere
Whether they can do it before winter, and at what cost to prices, is the question now hanging over the country's food supply.
Desperate to save Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, Ukrainian forces counterattack and reinforce
A Russian pincer is slowly closing around the last two big free cities in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. Winter will be a brief reprieve.
NATO vows to defend every inch. Svalbard is where Russia plans to prove it won’t.
The CIA chief’s visit to Moscow gave rise to warnings that Russia may be preparing to strike the Baltics. However, Russia has an easier target for the goal of paralyzing NATO.
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.
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.
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.
