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“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
The former Finnish prime minister has visited Ukraine around ten times since the full-scale invasion. This trip, she says, had more air-raid alarms than any of them, and a Russian drone hit the train travelling beside hers to the Polish border.
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23 September 2026
- 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
- Euromaidan Press is fighting a two-front war for Ukraine’s truth. And we need you on both
- Ukraine offers Russia deal: stop hitting our power, and we stop hitting your refineries. 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%
- NATO’s top generals meet in Copenhagen with Ukraine at top of agenda, as warnings grow that Russia may strike Alliance next
- Ukraine’s new interceptor drone moves toward mass production after first kills against jet-powered Russian drones that fly like cruise missiles
- Ukraine’s Donetsk counteroffensive wins not by force but by stealth: it gathers troops under Russian nose and seizes two villages before they react
- Ukraine shoots down Russian drones by hundred thousand: 350,000 this year, filmed and verified hit by hit in DELTA
- Germany cut Russian gas after 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Now, its far-right AfD party is in talks with Gazprom to bring it back, and Kremlin welcomes decision
- 300 Russian shadow fleet ships disabled in 11 weeks—the Azov Sea is at a standstill, Ukrainian drone force commander says
- Danish defense startup guarding undersea cables runs on 15 Ukrainian suppliers. Ukrainian fund is putting in €2 million in it
- Last September, Poland downed four of 19 Russian drones. This September, drone reached NATO’s missile shield in Redzikowo, and troops guarding it called 112
- Trump announced a “massive” potash deal with Belarus—Lukashenka said the same day there is no spare potash to sell
- Russia is holding Ukraine’s south with convicts: 69 percent have records. And they’re fighting where civilians live
- Egypt shifts wheat purchases away from Russia and Ukraine as Black Sea trade costs rise
- Ukraine shut down this Samara refinery in June—now its drones are back, and both distillation units are burning again
- Russia militarizes children from kindergarten to drone training in occupied Ukraine, monitor says
- Moldova counted 39 Russian drone incursions in eight months, against 17 in all of 2025
- Trump demanded Zelenskyy stop hitting Russian refineries—for the second time in a week
- Russia’s mercenaries brought a Ukraine-war drone to Mali. It came down near al-Qaeda’s fighters
- Born in the USSR, claimed stateless in Finland, fighting for Ukraine—now jailed in Russia
Daily Review
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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”
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1668: Thousands remain trapped and starving in Russian-occupied Oleshky
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Why did Ozon fall as much as 29% while Russia’s market lost 2.9%?
After five weeks of strikes on privately held Wildberries, attacks on listed Ozon gave investors a direct price for warehouse risk.
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.
