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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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08 November 2026
- 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
- Euromaidan PressVacancy: freelance writer, Ukrainian culture and history
- 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
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1719: Russia digs tunnels on Kherson’s occupied bank while Ukraine rolls out bigger ground robots
- Tunnels and hybrid attacks: Russia digs in under Ukraine-controlled skies across 20-30% of Kherson’s occupied bank, marine officer says
- One bridge stood between Russia’s armored columns and Kyiv in 2022 — two Ukrainian engineers gave their lives to stop them in one of war’s most crucial battles
- Why Ukraine’s new Patriot deal won’t solve its biggest air defense problem? Expert explains
- One Western air-defense battery has shot down more than 300 Russian missiles and drones over Kyiv
- “This is not Starlink”: 6-kilogram satellite terminal Russia claims Ukraine is using for deep strikes — what is it?
- Ukraine’s ground robots just got much bigger — this one can haul 1.5 tons and evacuate three casualties
- Ukrainian corps builds one-of-a-kind ground robots for war inside gas pipeline
- A Ukrainian National Guard officer was offered cash to accept bad shirts. He reported it instead
- Ukraine’s skies need interceptors. Spain’s new €437 million came out of a Madrid meeting with no list attached
- Russia steps up attacks on Izium, likely seeking to disrupt Ukrainian logistics along two front-line directions, ISW says
- Hungary’s last communist-era premier says he saw reports on fellow soldiers’ politics and sexuality attributed to young Orbán, who denies it
- Russian oilRussia promised Trump diesel. Five of its tankers turned for Brazil, Africa, and the Mediterranean instead
- About nine million abroad, millions under occupation, soldiers at the front: why Kyiv says the wartime vote Trump wants would be unfair
- Fishing for drones: a Ukrainian box that fires nets at FPVs heads for serial production
- Attack of the robots: Ukraine sent 28 armed ground robots, eight rigged to explode, at Russian lines. Russian drones stopped them—this time
- Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026The drones that wrecked the road to Kramatorsk are still hunting. Ukraine’s answer: a Frankenstein bulldozer bristling with spikes
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 is losing the Black Sea grain war it started. Its answer is to sink civilian ships off Romania and Bulgaria
The burning ships off Romania and Bulgaria are the latest round of a contest Ukraine opened this summer, when it began choking Russia’s own Black Sea exports
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.
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.
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 is now sending its tanks into battle with drone escorts: they can drive into a Russian kill zone and come back alive
The 475th Assault Regiment, short of infantry, was clearing Russian infiltrators out of Vilkhuvatka, a Kharkiv Oblast village 9 km from the Russian border, and its hedgehog tanks took repeated hits on the way to point-blank range.
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.
