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Russian vehicles can now shrug off cheap drones. Near Huliaipole, Ukrainian pilots are sending ones they can’t
The 237th Unmanned Systems Battalion is aiming heavy drones, usually saved for targets far behind the front, at single armored vehicles, trading one expensive drone for a near-certain kill.
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09 November 2026
- Germany threatens to block EU’s next budget unless all 27 states help close Ukraine’s 70-billion-euro funding gap
- Russian attack kills three in Odesa and sets a warehouse of food for schools ablaze, a day before Abu Dhabi peace talks
- Russia drops three-ton bomb on underground school where Ukrainians warmed up and charged phones. Fifty-five were killed, and its drones return for rescuers
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- Russia’s new mini cruise missile is packed with American technology — Ukraine finds 52 US components among 93 foreign parts
- Russia is building its own Starlink to guide drones like Shaheds. Ukraine answers with new Space Forces meant to knock those satellites out
- One Russian soldier every 29 seconds—Russia’s costliest day of the war, by Ukraine’s count
- Jamming doesn’t stop Russia hitting bridges. A Ukrainian expert points to the Iskander’s last-second radar scan
- Brussels’ new roadmap puts Moldova ahead of Russia-attacked Ukraine and names no EU joining date for Kyiv
- Europe heads to the Abu Dhabi talks on ending Russia’s war, but the Kremlin says it hasn’t discussed a security deal with Europeans
- Ukraine has tested near-space kill systems at least three times. A lawmaker wants them in production
- Drones set a tanker ablaze off Romania. Three weeks later, human remains turned up during repairs in Varna
- Moldova plugs into Romania and buys zero Russian gas as its president warns Russia will try harder to shake the country
- Russia kills three at a store of kindergarten food in Odesa after setting a Kremenchuk hotel ablaze
- Five strikes, 34 tanks hit—Ukraine keeps coming back to the same Russian oil hub
- Poland pushed Ukraine to let it dig up Polish WWII dead. A third search in one Ukrainian village this year found no grave
- Ukraine says it struck four Russian drone control posts in a day—one belonged to Rubikon, the unit that hunts Ukraine’s drone teams
- Drones hit three of the four refineries feeding Moscow last week. Overnight, they set fire to the one fueling St. Petersburg
- Russia cuts power to more than 600,000 in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast as Zelenskyy says the strikes aim to squeeze Ukraine before talks
- The BBC has named 285,023 dead Russian soldiers. Russia’s own registry may hold up to 450,100 war dead, hackers say
- Berlin says no more Patriots for now. Kyiv wants Russia’s missiles stopped before they leave the factory
- Russia was widening this bridge to four lanes for its Crimea road. Drones have now closed it
- A regiment a day: Russia lost 16,130 troops in a week, its worst week of the war by Ukraine’s count
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.
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.
Russia is back at Dobropillia a year after it failed there. Now it’s the southern jaw of a pincer on Donbas’s last big free cities
This time Russia brought another army, and Dobropillia’s defenders have until the leaves fall to stop it.
America has sided with Russia against Ukraine. Europe should stop pretending and build a coalition against Russia, China, and even the US
In three days, Washington sanctioned the court that issued Putin’s arrest warrant, lifted its own sanctions on Russian diesel, called for Zelenskyy to step down, and declared an “energy ceasefire” that asks only Ukraine to stop firing. These are not the acts of an ally.
Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps took the lessons of the failed 2023 counteroffensive into Operation Vivaldi. It fought small, and won.
Five months in, it has erased 18 months of Russian advances toward Sloviansk.
“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.
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 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.
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.
