Main news
Ukrainian Christmas
Armored assaults aren’t dead. Robots got the credit, but it was Ukrainian infantry in armored trucks that reversed a year of Russian gains near Lyman
Robots cleared the mines and blew up the bunkers, but soldiers still had to ride in and hold the ground.
Latest news
13 October 2026
- Kinzhal is 90% identical to Iskander-M: Ukraine’s intelligence identifies 58 companies in production chain
- “Zelenskyy is helping Democrats”: Trump’s MAGA base accuses Ukraine of trying to swing US midterms, says journalist in US
- Russia’s sabotage of Europe should bring Ukraine more weapons through US purchase scheme, with clear statement of where its red lines lie, NATO’s top European commander says
- Built by Ukraine’s ex-defense minister and unit that wrecked $12 billion of Russian gear, new interceptor downs two jet drones over Kyiv
- Russia is building satellite network that could put all of Europe in reach, defense executive warns
- Bipartisan US senators say Trump’s Russian diesel deal conflicts with 2022 ban, as he presses Kyiv to spare Russian refineries
- For years, Hungary tied Ukraine’s whole EU course to ethnic Hungarians’ language rights. Kyiv has now passed the schooling law meant to lift the block
- EU blacklists 1,569 Russian arms suppliers and their bosses in its biggest sanctions round ever, as Trump eases up on Moscow
- Zelenskyy says Ukraine could hold elections if Russia agrees to 60-day ceasefire. Moscow counters with truce lasting only voting day
- OpinionEurope has 11 ways to choke Russia’s war. It doesn’t need Trump’s permission for any of them
- Ten years on, Britain’s prime minister says Russia meddled in the Brexit vote—and warns Germany and France
- Russia is hacking cameras across Europe to track arms bound for Ukraine. At home, Ukraine has secured about 40,000 that could guide strikes — WSJ
- Ukrainian drones hit three of Russian tech giant Yandex’s data centers in four days. Ukraine’s president says the bots thinned out too
- Peacekeepers, riot police, and drone crews: Russia’s bloc rehearses an operation in a Belarusian oblast bordering two NATO states
- Ukrainian marines cleared about 6 km² near Pokrovsk without losses. The Russians they faced got a can of meat a week
- Ten casualties to one, by a NATO official’s count: Russia’s September in Ukraine’s kill zones
- Germany stays in Russia’s sabotage crosshairs, and its industry now braces for the long haul
- Russia’s supply base in occupied Luhansk Oblast burned overnight—NASA’s fire map caught it
- Short on interceptors, Ukraine goes after the launchers: eight Russian ballistic systems hit, three destroyed since September, a minister says
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1691: Ukraine opens arms exports to 18 makers as defense output hits $55 billion
- Drones now cause about 96% of Russia’s battlefield losses. Ukraine’s drone force says it has hit more than 100,000 Russian troops this year alone
- Fears that Ukraine will lose Starlink are back after Musk backed Trump against Zelenskyy. Adviser says profit makes cutoff unlikely
- Russia is building jet drones that fly 800 kilometers per hour, and Ukraine says it is already working on how to stop next generation
Daily Review
-
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1691: Ukraine opens arms exports to 18 makers as defense output hits $55 billion
-
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1690: US eases sanctions on Russian diesel and EU readies its largest package against Russia’s defense industry
-
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1689: Russia plans up to 1,000 missiles, drones, and bombs against 60 Ukrainian infrastructure sites this winter, Ukraine says
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.
“A warning to companies that remain”: Russia takes control of Nestlé and Auchan’s assets – companies that stayed in Russia following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
The companies had been warned that remaining in Russia could expose their investments to seizure as the Kremlin increasingly uses foreign-owned businesses as leverage. B4Ukraine says companies should leave while they still can.
“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.
The West has tried everything except ending the war
Diplomacy, sanctions, 200 rounds of talks—Russia used all of it to buy time. Diesel prices in America are just the tsunami's latest wave.
Russian spies ran a campaign against Kyiv on Anthropic’s Claude, and the AI chatbot’s maker caught them at it
The operators automated phishing, intrusion, and data theft, leaving the human to refine the workflows.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
