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Russia just accidentally crashed its first Tu-95 bomber in 11 years. Its missiles will keep striking Ukraine anyway
It is out of production and Russia's bomber fleet keeps shrinking, but a raid on 8 September needed just six bombers, and Russia still has around a hundred.
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04 October 2026
- Ukraine’s bomber drones, ones that dropped ground robots in its recent Donetsk counteroffensive, are getting 2.4-kilogram jammer to shield them from FPVs
- OpinionA Nobel laureate’s deal: free Russia’s prisoners, fund the missiles hitting Ukraine
- As Russia expands attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine prepares to hit Moscow’s oil industry harder in response
- Ukraine’s top general wants to end Soviet rules in army. But president’s wartime headquarters may still hold reforms, commander says
- “No alien quantum modems”: 1 to 3 concealed devices in Kyiv may be why Russian drones keep hitting so precisely, Ukraine’s top tech adviser says
- Ukraine’s $33 veterans’ gym subsidy drew 800,000 uses. Now it is gone, squeezed by war and stalled reforms, holding up $20 billion in aid
- Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026Ukraine fired its first FP-7 ballistic missile in combat. Its maker says next version will do what Ukraine needed since 2022
- Russia strikes second major Kyiv bridge in two days as attacks disrupt movement across the capital
- Three Russian missiles and two drones strike Moldovan territory in morning attacks on neighboring Ukraine. Moldova is increasingly exposed to the risks of Russia’s war next door
- Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026Ukraine keeps finding ways to replace its MiG-29s. It’s running out of MiG-29s to find
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1682: Russian drones repeatedly hit Kyiv’s Southern Bridge, forcing transport restrictions across the capital
- 41 Ukrainians made the long journey from occupation to Ukrainian-controlled territory after enduring Russian pressure, detention and control
- Russia retaliates after Hungary expels 10 diplomats, deepening Budapest-Moscow rift since Orbán’s ouster
- Ukrainian grandmother detained in Kazakhstan at Russia’s request while trying to bring grandson back to Ukraine
- Sanctions keep catching Russia’s gas tankers, so Moscow is building new ones, UK says
- Russia repeatedly attacks bridge connecting Kyiv’s two sides across the Dnipro river, disrupting transport across the capital
- Ukraine files a minority-schooling bill, and Hungary agrees to unblock two of its EU-accession clusters
- Ukraine turned ground robots into a frontline workhorse. Its first competitive tender may reward cheap copies over proven machines, an officer warns
- Ukrainian firm fields 11 crewless boats and eight drones at NATO’s biggest naval drone drill
- Russia paid with more than 46,000 casualties, and the front moved the other way, ISW finds
- Drones hit Russia’s Volgograd and Samara overnight—fires near a Lukoil refinery, a chemical plant, and likely Europe’s largest oil tank farm in Samara
- Spain, Belgium, and Poland are sending Ukraine F-16 cannon rounds to fight Russia’s jet drones
- Ukraine’s former defense minister, dismissed suddenly, has announced Army of Robots. He says target is $10,000 per unit and need is tens of thousands
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1682: Russian drones repeatedly hit Kyiv’s Southern Bridge, forcing transport restrictions across the capital
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1681: Russian drone hit Kyiv school sheltering more than 100 students and about 60 staff
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1680: Ukraine brings 14 more children home from occupied Kherson
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.
Ukraine is sending its winning brigades to where the fighting is worst. The 46th just turned up outside Kramatorsk
Sloviansk and Kramatorsk are the last two big cities in the Donbas that Russia does not hold. The 46th Airmobile Brigade left the southeast in early July and reached them before anyone outside the army knew.
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.
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.
Ukraine is taking 1980s Leopards from across Europe and giving them radar-guided anti-drone guns and gunner-less turrets
Thirty-one get a Belgian turret the crew doesn't sit in. Others become radar-guided drone killers, built in Rome and paid for with frozen Russian money.
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.
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.
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.
