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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.
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30 September 2026
- OpinionWhen Kremlin energy talking points come with an Oxford address
- Russian troops seize drone-dropped food in occupied Oleshky, accusing recipients of cooperating with Ukraine. Some people go missing, a local official says
- Most drone interceptors ram or explode. This Ukrainian one just throws a net—six shots to a module
- The EU sanctioned Russia’s Starlink rival but not the company that builds it. Experts call that the gap that matters
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1679: Russia raises its war budget by 27% to a record as it looks to grow its war in 2027
- Russian troops enter homes and threaten starving Oleshky residents for food and alcohol, officials say
- Russian mercenaries blew off African prisoners’ legs to practice battlefield medicine, Wagner fighter says
- Mavic vs Slavic: Ukrainian developers adapt reconnaissance drones to the modern battlefield
- Russia drained the Kakhovka Reservoir. Now it hides in the dry bed to creep toward Zaporizhzhia
- Russia ordered arson attack on Estonian military robot-maker supplying Ukraine, Estonia confirms
- A Ukrainian firm now rents out drone jammers by the day—but the deposit is the device’s full price
- Belgium rushes three F-16s to Ukraine as Russia expands its drone and missile assault
- Military techIn Ukraine’s Vivaldi offensive, nobody rides in the BTR-60s. Bulgaria’s old troop carriers go into Russian bunkers packed with mines
- Russian jet-powered drone hits near Yahodyn, just 1.5 km from Poland, as Warsaw changes air defense rules
- Russia raises its war budget by 27% and expands the army again – both to new records – even as its budget deficit widens and oil revenues fall
- Ukraine just caught a Geran-5 at 425 km/h—the jet drone that has often outrun Ukrainian interceptor drones since January
- Lithuania gets its US tank battalion back while the Pentagon weighs pulling up to 40,000 troops from Europe
- Vivaldi counteroffensive advanced after Ukraine took Russia’s drones out of the fight, ISW assesses
- OpinionEurope and Ukraine already have the force to stop Russia. What’s missing is the alliance.
- Russia is stepping up fake Ukrainian government pages as bait for recruiting agents, Ukraine’s security service says
- The Kremlin calls mobilization talk “nonsense”—Zelenskyy says it has already begun, with North Korean reinforcements
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1678: Russia’s mass drone attacks are designed to bring about Ukraine’s capitulation by spring 2027
- Military techUkraine’s tanks are fighting from kilometers back. A 1960s Soviet model does that nearly as well
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1679: Russia raises its war budget by 27% to a record as it looks to grow its war in 2027
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1678: Russia’s mass drone attacks are designed to bring about Ukraine’s capitulation by spring 2027
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1676: Zelenskyy offers NATO’s neighbors Ukraine’s drone-defense know-how
A US-Russia deal won’t end the war. It will start the next one
Two American processes are converging on the same point: the cost to Russia of attacking NATO. A peace on Moscow's terms lowers the political price; a US troop drawdown lowers the military one. Moscow is waiting to read both before it moves.
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.
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 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.
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.
Frontline Rolls: Ukrainian soldiers document their lives at the front on film
The 2025 project is now a photobook and traveling exhibition after winning two international photography awards.
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.
