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A Russian disinformation campaign cloned Euromaidan Press to blame Ukraine for Russia’s own strike on Kramatorsk (we took the fake down)
Researchers tie the fake to Storm-1516, a Russian influence operation that has overtaken RT and Sputnik by cloning trusted news brands to publish fabricated stories under their names.
Latest news
04 November 2026
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1714: Russia launches one of largest attacks on Ukraine’s power grid of war
- One of largest Russian attacks yet on Ukraine’s energy system forces emergency blackouts across regions and leaves Kyiv without water
- Ukraine buils 6-kilometer tunnel under Russia’s drone kill zone
- Four boats, two soldiers each, under cover of fog: Russia’s first attempt to land troops in Kherson ended with one dead and three captured
- Norway, Denmark and Sweden teams refuse to play with Russia at 2027 Ice Hockey World Cup
- $400 billion US tech giant helping Ukraine is now facing backlash on both sides of Atlantic
- A logistics general takes over Ukraine’s state arms group, and the company is counting on him to make it build more
- Polish firms prepare to build Ukraine’s Bohdana away from Russia’s front—Kramatorsk’s howitzer heads west
- Europe’s future force for Ukraine from 11 countries will hold its first rehearsal in Poland—for a peace that doesn’t exist yet
- Russian drones watch the roads in Donetsk Oblast, but not the nearly 6 km route Ukraine has set up underground
- Fear of Ukraine’s mobilization keeps some people under Russian occupation, and Moscow uses it as a psyop, MP says. His deferment bill has stalled
- Kill the archer, not the arrows: Ukraine asked Trump again and again to free Starshield against Russia’s ballistic launchers
- Kremlin sees “no similar plans” after Oleshky—Kyiv plans to set up a center to return civilians Russia holds
- Russia ends free bottled gas for 13 groups of Crimeans before winter. In one village, a gas cylinder costs up to four times the official price—a local resident
- Russia kept troops at an aviation school beside Luhansk’s dead airfield. A week after the last strike, Ukraine hit the area again
- Hours before Americans vote, Russia fires 59 cruise missiles at Ukraine’s grid and bombs a Kharkiv hospital
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1713: Ukraine hits Samara Oil hub blending up to half of Russian crude exports
- Failing Ukrainian brigade cut unauthorized absences by 70%. How did they do it?
- Russia strikes school where civilians recieved aid in Zaporizhzhia Oblast days after Oleshky truce. Nine more bombs hit its shelter, killing at least 26
- 15-kilometer flight into kill zone: Ukraine’s drone rescues wounded soldier by air
- Ukrainian Congress Committee of America urge Governor Hochul to help block 140,000-ton Russian diesel shipment bound for Port of New York on 6-7 November
- Some American media figures are “directly or indirectly” financed by Russia, says Trump-linked blogger Loomer
- Days before the EU grades Ukraine, watchdogs flag trouble with a condition Brussels set for its membership
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1714: Russia launches one of largest attacks on Ukraine’s power grid of war
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1713: Ukraine hits Samara Oil hub blending up to half of Russian crude exports
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1710: Azov says its small UAVs have hit more than 100 Russian trains in occupied Donbas
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.
Russia is funneling the Ukrainian children it abducts into military camps and conscription. Ukrainian lawyer says world can legally call this genocide—but lacks the will
Kateryna Rashevska can walk you through exactly how one Ukrainian child disappears into Russia: the occupied-territory orphanage, the foster placement with a Kremlin-connected family, the re-education camp, the military uniform, the draft notice that arrives at sixteen.
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.
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.
What if Russia uses nuclear weapons? Can we say Ukraine brought peace to world? Norwegian professor who nominated Zelenskyy and Ukrainians for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize takes on tough questions
He explains why he thinks US President Donald Trump won't win the Nobel Peace Prize this year, and why Ukraine should.
Turkey’s Korkut guns now shoot down Russian drones over Ukraine. Almost half of the jet-powered Shaheds still get through
Russia launched about as many of the fast ones as slow ones in September, by one analyst's count, and its winter assault on the power grid is still ahead.
A Nobel laureate’s deal: free Russia’s prisoners, fund the missiles hitting Ukraine
The laureate is Dmitry Muratov, and the deal he urged on Washington would lift sanctions on Russia's war economy in exchange for releasing the very dissidents the Kremlin jailed.
Ukraine fired its first FP-7 ballistic missile in combat. Its maker says next version will do what Ukraine needed since 2022
Zelensky announced the launch on 1 October without naming the target, and wrote that production comes next.
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.
For years Ukraine could jam or switch off Russia’s battlefield comms. Rassvet may be the first it can’t
Sanctioning the firm behind Russia's Starlink won't stop it. It can make every satellite slower and costlier to build—and the clock is short.
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
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.
