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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.
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17 September 2026
- International“I can travel back to Finland and be safe. That is a luxury”: Sanna Marin on the Russian strike that stopped her train from Kyiv
- A fifth of Russian refining sits idle, and the sector’s earnings still grew
- One pincer stalled a year ago, the other has just been broken near Kostiantynivka—Russia’s ring will not close, Ukrainian commander says
- The EU has billions in unspent defense funds. It wants to use them for projects with Ukraine
- The US House just passed the first major Russia oil sanctions in two years—one signature stands between them and law
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1666: Ukraine’s counteroffensive disrupts Russia’s Donetsk encirclement plan
- Ukraine put an Italian-Swiss Skyguard into combat duty. The missile inside is a Cold War design derived from the American Sparrow
- Ukrainian border unit’s HIMERA B1 relay took 10 strikes from Russia’s FPV drones and guided bombs. Last one leveled building and tower, and relay kept working
- US charges five as alleged Kremlin assassination network reaches American soil
- Russia ships armor to Libya despite mounting vehicle losses in Ukraine
- 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
- Russia’s strikes on UN warehouses push Ukraine 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
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1666: Ukraine’s counteroffensive disrupts Russia’s Donetsk encirclement plan
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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
Ukraine spent three years learning to catch Russian drones—so Russia made them fly faster
Russia's jet-powered drones don't beat Ukraine's missile defense. They threaten the cheap layer that keeps it affordable—and they are turning the war into a contest over reaction time.
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.
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.
Fifth drone-related NORSI shutdown in under five months leaves all major Lukoil refineries offline
Russia’s second-largest gasoline producer is offline as Moscow orders fuel redistribution and regional authorities tighten sales limits.
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.
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 finally hit three Russian Kalibr ships on 12 August. On the 19th, an untouched one hit Kyiv
Prior to 12 August, the Russian Black Sea Fleet had eight warships capable of firing Kalibr cruise missiles. It still has at least four.
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.
