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“Our future cannot be the subject of agreements between Trump and Putin”: Ukraine supporters protest US policy on Russia in Europe, US, and Australia
Pro-Ukraine demonstrations took place in more than 10 cities as protesters condemned US moves to ease sanctions on Russia and pressure Kyiv to make concessions while Moscow’s war continues.
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30 October 2026
- An armored capsule instead of an open platform: Ukraine develops an evacuation module for the Murakha UGV
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1709: Russian jet drone kills 14 on Dnipro railway platform beside a Zaporizhzhia-bound train
- Classrooms in Sumy Oblast are moving underground due to Russian shelling: 13 such schools are already operating, nine are under construction, and another 14 are at the design stage
- Euromaidan Press is fighting a two-front war for Ukraine’s truth. And we need you on both
- “The enemy has changed tactics”: Zaporizhzhia faces record number of Russian FPV drone attacks, hitting public transport 3 times in one day
- Ukrainian Neptune strike destroys two Russian Su-34 bombers used to attack frontline cities, Ukraine’s Navy says
- Culture of UkraineMeet Zakon, the Ukrainian font designed to write Russian type out of state documents
- Demining complete, humanitarian convoy ready: Oleshky mission advances as ceasefire holds and Lubinets heads to occupied city
- Six lanes and metro line under fire: Kyiv prepares about $22 million for backup river crossings after Russian strike on Southern Bridge
- Russia’s October losses hit record high of 49,040 with three days left, Ukraine says
- Military techUkraine and the Netherlands team up on missile defense as Europe plans its own missile killer, free of US approval
- Russian jet drone hits Dnipro railway platform, killing 14 people next to a Zaporizhzhia-bound train
- Some European diplomats doubt Seoul over what they see as a tilt toward Russia during Moscow’s war on Ukraine, but Seoul says it backs ending the war, FT reports
- Russia’s sanctioned top diplomat heads to the US to campaign against the sanctions on its war
- Germany holds two 19-year-olds over Bulgaria’s Starlink arson, and Sofia says they also attacked the network Ukraine fights with elsewhere in the EU
- Baking soda by day, armor chemistry on contract: drones reportedly strike Russia’s Bashkir Soda Company
- Ukraine finds Russia’s Geran drones fitted with a compass that works through GPS jamming, but Western electronics still at their core
- Russia may use the Oleshky truce to rebuild its forces, ISW warns, as evacuees face a route through Russia and Belarus
- Ankara tells Washington it’s ready to help revive Ukraine-Russia talks—but names no date or venue
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1708: Russia clones Euromaidan Press to blame Ukraine for its own Kramatorsk strike
- Euromaidan PressA Russian disinformation campaign cloned Euromaidan Press to blame Ukraine for Russia’s own strike on Kramatorsk (we took the fake down)
- €100 million at stake: what Ukrainians could save by joining Europe’s euro-payment zone, if parliament votes before November
- Promised discharge, but no trust: Why Ukraine’s new military contracts are struggling
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1709: Russian jet drone kills 14 on Dnipro railway platform beside a Zaporizhzhia-bound train
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1708: Russia clones Euromaidan Press to blame Ukraine for its own Kramatorsk strike
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1707: UN commission finds Russia’s strikes on Ukraine’s power grid are crimes against humanity
“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
Ukraine’s part of that exchange was to stop striking Russia’s oil plants, a request Kushner repeated at the Miami meeting.
Europe has 11 ways to choke Russia’s war. It doesn’t need Trump’s permission for any of them
Three weeks after signing new Russia sanctions into law, Washington suspended them for Russian diesel, while the levers that would hurt Moscow most sit in European hands.
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.
“Supplying Crimea is turning into a nightmare”: Ukrainian drones hit Russian trucks 770 times in September, and winter will make it worse, analyst says
That's the most of any month this year, up from 630 in August, even though Russian supply trucks now travel in convoys with their own air defense.
Armored assaults aren’t dead. Robots got the credit, but it was Ukrainian infantry in armored trucks that reversed a year of Russian gains near Lyman
Robots cleared the mines and blew up the bunkers, but soldiers still had to ride in and hold the ground.
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.
Turkey’s Korkut guns now shoot down Russian drones over Ukraine. Almost half of the jet-powered Shaheds still get through
Russia launched about as many of the fast ones as slow ones in September, by one analyst's count, and its winter assault on the power grid is still ahead.
A Nobel laureate’s deal: free Russia’s prisoners, fund the missiles hitting Ukraine
The laureate is Dmitry Muratov, and the deal he urged on Washington would lift sanctions on Russia's war economy in exchange for releasing the very dissidents the Kremlin jailed.
Ukraine fired its first FP-7 ballistic missile in combat. Its maker says next version will do what Ukraine needed since 2022
Zelensky announced the launch on 1 October without naming the target, and wrote that production comes next.
Ukraine keeps finding ways to replace its MiG-29s. It’s running out of MiG-29s to find
The latest loss came Thursday, when Capt. Marat Mambetov, 25, ejected after a Russian missile hit his jet on a strike mission but did not survive.
Ukraine is now sending its tanks into battle with drone escorts: they can drive into a Russian kill zone and come back alive
The 475th Assault Regiment, short of infantry, was clearing Russian infiltrators out of Vilkhuvatka, a Kharkiv Oblast village 9 km from the Russian border, and its hedgehog tanks took repeated hits on the way to point-blank range.
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.
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.
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
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.
