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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.
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07 October 2026
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1686: Sanctioned tankers carried fuel from South Korea to Russia
- Ukraine cuts more than 4,000 vacant government posts and trims deputy ministers by about 20% in the first stage of civil service reform
- Ukraine’s war leadership sets new electronic warfare tasks as Russia’s jet-powered drones slip past nearly half of its air defenses
- Ukraine is third in world for cyberattacks after US and Israel, and first in Europe. Machine-speed assaults run continuously and without fatigue
- InterviewWhat if Russia uses nuclear weapons? Can we say Ukraine brought peace to world? Norwegian professor who nominated Zelenskyy and Ukrainians for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize takes on tough questions
- Ukrainian units hit record number of Russian air defense systems and radars in September, one of them 552 kilometers away
- Seoul backs Ukraine, but sanctioned tankers carried fuel from South Korea to Russia
- Germany accuses Russia of a drone bomb attempt at Leipzig. Now its eight biggest airports get drone detection
- At ruined Donetsk’s airport, three Russians snap selfies and ready jet-powered Geran-4. Ukrainian drone slips in unseen and rams their launcher
- Ukraine’s Defense Ministry says some suppliers cannot build weapons ordered, and drops contracts to free $346 million for front
- Ukraine’s drone pilots hit 76.5% more Russian infantry than two months ago: 2,699 in first five days of October
- Proven on Ukraine’s front line, now made in Germany. National Guard signs for the Linza and Zoom drones
- Ukraine’s battlefield gains may be pushing Putin to shift focus to early winter strikes, ISW says
- Russia is out to break Ukraine’s economy this winter, Jetten says—and the Netherlands will help keep Ukraine’s drone-hunting F-16s in the air
- Two ships sunk and a third set ablaze off NATO coasts in two days, and neither Bucharest nor Sofia will say “Russia”
- Three ambulances hit, a woman killed at home: 25 minutes of Russian drone attacks on Kramatorsk
- Turkey’s Korkut guns now shoot down Russian drones over Ukraine. Almost half of the jet-powered Shaheds still get through
- The tanks that fuel Moscow’s airliners are reported burning after Ukraine’s latest drone raid on the capital region
- Ukraine’s civilian casualties 55% higher in first eight months than in the same period in 2025, UN says
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1685: Ukraine fires its first FP-7 ballistic missile
- From making interceptors to guarding sky: Ukrainian drone maker gets its own private air defense unit and will pay for it from weapon sales
- Russia burned 628,000 new school textbooks in Kharkiv at the peak of back-to-school season
- Ukraine wants to aim Starlink at Russian targets—and build a version Elon Musk can’t switch off
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1686: Sanctioned tankers carried fuel from South Korea to Russia
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1685: Ukraine fires its first FP-7 ballistic missile
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1682: Russian drones repeatedly hit Kyiv’s Southern Bridge, forcing transport restrictions across the capital
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.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1659: Fedorov returns from the US with plans for Ukraine’s largest defense-tech fund
Separately, mine contamination has injured nearly 1,700 civilians since the invasion began, with farmers hit hardest.
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.
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.
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.
Ukraine logged impacts at 11 sites while the American peace delegation was still in Moscow
The strike package mixed jet-powered attack drones, decoys, and cruise missiles across several oblasts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
