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Ukraine has reportedly tested air-launched interceptors at the edge of space. The missile is the easy part
Such missile defenses in the cold of space could stop Russia's Oreshnik. But that doesn't mean those defenses will be ready any time soon.
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13 November 2026
- Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026Did the Russians just shoot down three of their own aircraft?
- Path that Russia is building for Ukrainian youth: 1,615 children in occupied part of Kherson Oblast are in its “military-patriotic” program
- Russia is trying to break Ukraine’s power grid before winter — one strike left house-sized crater
- Bloomberg: Russia’s leaked records show foreigners from nearly 100 countries died in its war on Ukraine
- Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026Why do Abu Dhabi talks resume after nine-month pause? Washington needs progress before new Congress asks questions in January, diplomat says
- The 161 km/h cap is back on Ukraine’s Starshield links, nearly three weeks after Kyiv got full speed restored
- As Russia’s jet drones multiply, Czechia could send Ukraine 16 Skyfox jets that are cheaper to fly than F-16s
- Russia fires Iskanders at Ukraine. A satellite image shows what Ukraine’s missiles left of a building at a Russian plant that makes their parts
- Trump promised Americans Russian diesel. Russia doubled its exports, and none of it went to the US
- Ukraine’s Patriots stand empty, Zelenskyy warns, while Italy, one of its Aster suppliers, says: “We have some to keep for ourselves”
- Ireland wants Ukraine’s final EU clusters open within seven weeks. Hungary still hasn’t said yes
- A second Russian strike on a blaze near Kyiv killed two firefighters, hours before missiles and jet drones hit 17 sites across Ukraine
- Russia’s officials have a habit of dying suddenly. Now its ambassador to the US is dead at 66 in Moscow after US midterms
- A fake front line that exists only on Russian state maps is set to grow all winter, ISW expects, after Russia’s envoys carried it to the peace table
- Russian colonel killed by a remote-detonated car bomb a day after Ukrainian drones hit a nearby Baltic port
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1722: Russia sends heavier team to Abu Dhabi peace talks, but its negotiators insist on Kremlin’s original war aims
- 1,600 Russians died capturing, then retreating from, one small settlement
- Russian strikes burn almost six months’ worth of cancer drug for Ukraine — now Kyiv is rethinking how it stores medicine
- Russia recruits 45,959 foreigners to fight against Ukraine — but doesn’t take a single one back from captivity, Kyiv says
- Ship tonnage and gun caliber no longer define sea power, Ukraine’s former commander-in-chief tells forum aboard British carrier
- What do front-line units pick most from Ukraine’s unique 1,800-item weapons store? They have already ordered over $2 billion there
- Only one-third of Ukraine’s key transformers are protected from Russian strikes — but biggest threat may be inside system, lawmaker says
- Russia claimed in Abu Dhabi to hold Donbas land Ukraine controls, and the US confirmed Kyiv’s picture, Zelenskyy says
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1722: Russia sends heavier team to Abu Dhabi peace talks, but its negotiators insist on Kremlin’s original war aims
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1721: Abu Dhabi talks open with Russia still demanding the rest of Donetsk Oblast
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1719: Russia digs tunnels on Kherson’s occupied bank while Ukraine rolls out bigger ground robots
“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.
A short guide to the linguicide of the Ukrainian language | Infographics (updated)
From the 17th to the 20th century, Ukrainian lands were split between empires and states. Their rulers tried to assimilate Ukrainians and block their self-determination by going after what set them apart: their language and culture. Nobody has an exact count of the bans. Historian Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk says there were more than 100 and that…
Full speed returned to Ukraine’s satellite links on Saturday morning. “We simply enforced our terms,” Musk claims after blaming Washington for 10 days
The SpaceX owner, who had earlier said the US government decides such limits, wrote that his company had closed a gap he says Ukrainian troops used for drone strikes.
This is the fancy new F-16 Ukraine could get. It’s not what its pilots need most.
Ukraine could buy newly built F-16 Block 70/72s from U.S. firm Lockheed Martin. But that's not the greatest need.
Ukraine now fights two enemies. One is America
In two weeks, Washington sanctioned the court prosecuting Putin, waived its own sanctions on Russia, and called him a humanitarian.
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.
Starlink helped Ukraine pull off Operation Vivaldi. Now Starlink could help Russia take the ground back
The operation retook 277 square kilometers north of Lyman. The drones that now hold that line lose their Starshield link above about 160 km/h.
Ukraine’s answer to Russia’s jet Shaheds: a jet drone named Bars, built to strike Russia and now turned around to hunt them
Zelenskyy says it has the best hit rate of any Ukrainian interceptor against the jet drones, about 30%, but the small jet engines it needs may be in short supply.
Progress on a sore point for Ukraine and Poland: remains of over 40 Ukrainians killed by Polish WWII units found in Łasków
The find is the first in years from Ukraine’s searches in Poland, coming as Warsaw keeps pressing Kyiv over how it remembers the UPA.
Belgium’s 10 F-16s bring Ukraine’s promised fleet to about 100 jets. Fewer than 40 are flying, as Russia’s jet drones run them ragged
The rest arrive in batches through 2029, and every sortie against Russia's jet drones brings the jets already in Ukraine closer to long inspections abroad.
Russia still parks its best bombers in the open. Ukraine has spent a year knocking out the air defenses that were supposed to protect them
The Russian air force parked six Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bombers out in the open at a base within reach of Ukraine's Neptune cruise missiles. Now at least four are wreckage.
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.
“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.
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
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.
