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Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive is more successful than we thought
The Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps has cut across a dangerous Russian salient in the east. All without telling anyone.
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29 August 2026
- Ukraine’s intelligence: Russia is running its Nepal, Cuba, Kenya, and India recruitment scheme in Indonesia now
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1647: Kyiv is under nonstop attack for a second day as Russia’s strikes wipe out 90% of Ukraine’s modern commercial storage
- Fix for Ukraine’s interceptors is radar seeker head, and American firm is selling one for $4,000, says president’s tech adviser
- Four ground robots for one evacuation: Russia is targeting Ukraine’s robotic medevac missions
- Ukrainian robot commander calls ground robots “Persian elephants.” What army really needs are “Arabian steeds”, he says
- Russia destroyed last of Kherson’s heat and power equipment on 26 August. Ukraine’s new defense minister arrived days later
- Partisans say Russian recruiters in occupied Donetsk are taking drunk men from bars straight to enlistment offices
- Ukraine dismissed its defense minister in July. He is now advising NATO country on defense innovation
- Russia has destroyed 90% of Ukraine’s modern commercial storage capacity. Retail logistics are being reshaped
- Ukraine has built twin-Kalashnikov turret for cheap ground robots. Security Service has already used one to destroy Russian ambushes
- Ukraine struck Tu-95 at base Russia launches its cruise missiles on Ukraine’s civilians. Satellite image shows third of right wing gone
- “Territory that will allow us to export our energy resources to Europe”: Russia’s deputy Duma chairman calls for massed bombing of Ukrainian cities
- From the Gripen sale to coast guard boats—Sweden sends 10 vessels to Ukraine
- Money MattersRussia drove most ships from Ukraine’s ports. Now its drones are hunting the trains
- Kyiv has been under attack for 2 days nonstop. Russia is targeting the capital’s civilian supply chains
- Russians bought $300 million in body armor, thermal sights, and drone parts on Ozon marketplace Ukraine is bombing
- Poland kept selling itself as Kyiv’s gateway to Europe—Ukraine stopped needing one, Polish journalist argues
- Russia is secretly building a mortar-launched drone-killer—and a resistance group just leaked the blueprints
- Sofia gets seven minehunters from Belgium and the Netherlands for a sea Russia mined
- Moldova is investing in air defense against the Russian drones crossing from Ukraine—Romania shoots down the ones that reach it
- A suspected Russian scheme to obtain Finnish citizenship ran for more than 20 years before Finland noticed
- Russia’s number two online retailer reports drone attacks on logistics hubs in two regions
- Ukraine to get 90% of drones under planned Finnish production deal, Finland’s president says
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1647: Kyiv is under nonstop attack for a second day as Russia’s strikes wipe out 90% of Ukraine’s modern commercial storage
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1645: Kyiv sends Azov commanders to defend fortress cities
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1644: Ukraine strikes Russian refineries and depots
Russia is trying to get its guns within range of Zaporizhzhia. First it has to take a prison
The Ukrainian 118th Mechanized Brigade blocks any march on Zaporizhzhia City. But a Russian field army aims to disrupt the defense.
Putin’s Mach-10 wonder weapon misses by 30 meters. Russia stopped building it in April.
Putin unveiled it as unstoppable in 2018. Ukrainian intelligence says the line stopped in April, and the fuel now goes to Iskanders.
Wiretaps, a mocking codename, and a seized playbook—Ukraine’s anti-graft bureau reaches the President’s Office again
Media reports place a deputy head of the presidential office among those searched, while investigators decline to confirm any identities.
Moldova halves grain-transit fees for Ukraine as its own farmers threaten protests
President Maia Sandu is defending the halved transit fees against her own farmers, arguing that a neighbor able to export and arm itself is worth more to Moldova than the risk to local grain prices.
India’s cooking-oil imports jump for festival season—but not war-hit sunflower
Indian refiners are stocking up for the festival season, but the war has left the world’s top sunflower supplier shut out of the boom.
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 let young men leave to keep teenage boys home. Restaurants now struggle to hire
Work.ua recorded 29% fewer male candidates aged 18 to 22 in hospitality and retail. Across the platform, advertised entry-level pay rose 23 to 24%.
Ukraine may have just lost its first Swedish assault boat—to a Russian jet drone
A Russian Geran-4 caught it near the Kinburn Spit on 12 August. Those boats are what put Ukrainian robots on Russian beaches.
NATO no longer deters Russia. A new coalition could
A formal declaration of Ukraine's alliance with European military powers would radically change Russia's calculus
How did Sberbank’s record dividend end up frozen for Western shareholders?
Russia’s largest bank keeps setting profit records and paying record dividends. For its shareholders in the West, that money is frozen in accounts they cannot touch.
Russia hunted civilians by drone in Kherson. Victims are suing the US firm they say helped connect the attackers
A New York networking company sold radios that let signals travel 100 kilometers. Ukrainian civilians say Russian drone crews used them to hunt people in Kherson, and they are asking a Manhattan jury to hold the company responsible. Ukrainian civilians and relatives of people killed by Russian drones sued Ubiquiti Inc. in the US District…
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 funds its war from wages, and a 1971 law keeps millions of women from earning them
Ukraine is short 4.5 million workers and 81% of its registered unemployed are women—yet a Soviet-era law still bars them from night shifts in the industries most desperate to fill them.
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 promised Ukraine a deterrence force. The missiles that would make it work arrive in 2029.
The only deep-strike production line opening sooner runs through Ukrainian factories.
