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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.
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23 September 2026
- Russia’s sanctioned propaganda network Rybar freely roamed Schengen zone to shoot manipulative content
- Russia fabricates Dobropillia encirclement to strengthen its case for Kyiv’s capitulation at UN – ISW
- Year ago, only 12 Ukrainian brigades could order weapons online. Now, 500 units participate in revolutionary program that has delivered 1.3 million drones to front
- Russia is mapping everyday targets across Kyiv, from trolleybus depots to Zhuliany airport, top monitoring channel says, ahead of next ballistic strike
- He swore to defend Ukraine, then switched to Russia when it seized Crimea. Twelve years later, Ukrainian FPV drone found him commanding Russian regiment
- “Food must never be used as a weapon”: EU calls for Black Sea attack moratorium
- Ukraine’s Vivaldi counteroffensive near Lyman just got help from behind Russian lines: partisans say they cut rail supply to three Russian regiments, no explosion needed
- Ukraine’s new drone ferries FPV drones deep behind Russian lines and releases them there. It costs about $9,900 and does three other jobs too
- A former US nuclear-sub commander, a Ukrainian fund, and a plan to shield Odesa with drone swarms
- Vivaldi erased Russia’s Lyman pincer. Now Moscow is pushing toward Sloviansk instead
- Old American armor, new Ukrainian brain: Skelya regiment nears completion of M1117 unmanned conversion
- Economy of UkraineTwo 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
- Foreign volunteers retrain as drone operators as Ukraine’s battlefield changes
- Strike copters lead Ukraine’s 650 new military drone approvals—jam-proof and interceptor models close behind
- Explosives found meters from the drone that crashed near a Bundeswehr air base—investigators say it matches the GRU’s Leipzig attack devices
- Russian AggressionVivaldi’s secret weapon was the targeting, not the robots: Third Corps reconnaissance mapped Russian command nodes, then hit them to cause panic
- Europe is overreacting to Russian threats, Finland’s president says—his intelligence sees no imminent danger
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1672: Ukraine’s counteroffensive in Donetsk Oblast advances by stealth
- Ukrainian reformsUkraine’s chief prosecutor fled. Politicians still choose the man who can prosecute them.
- $16 bn or lives of Ukrainians: Kyiv is furious after EU took two of Russia’s richest men off its sanctions list
- Russia is spending jet-powered drones on Ukraine’s toilet-paper factory. It’s same campaign that has destroyed 2.1 million square meters of Ukraine’s warehouses
- Ukraine offers Russia deal: stop hitting our power, and we stop hitting yours. US will pass it to Moscow
- Arms makers in Ukraine sign first 26 deals in program that lets them lease equipment for 5% of cost, with state paying other 95%
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1672: Ukraine’s counteroffensive in Donetsk Oblast advances by stealth
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1671: Foreign arms suppliers owe Ukraine $10.58 billion
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1670: Ukraine’s Vivaldi counteroffensive described as “one of Ukraine’s most important victories of 2026”
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.
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 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.
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.
Russia turns failed drone defenses into grounds for state control of company assets
Russia can now take control of a company’s property and shares if it fails to protect key infrastructure from drones—even when the controller is foreign.
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.
