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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
03 November 2026
- 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
- “40% is an argument. The weightiest”: Ukrainian top brigade commander says drone units soar once allowed to buy what they need
- Starlink’s slowdown hurt Ukraine at front. Now Kyiv and Türkiye weigh building satellite technology together, Zelenskyy says
- Ukraine turns old BTR into rolling bomb — then drove it straight into Russian lines, battalion commander says
- “By blocking Moldova, no one is helping Ukraine,” President Maia Sandu says, as both countries wait to open their two EU negotiation clusters
- WSJ: US pitches Russian gas through Ukraine’s pipelines as Moscow’s incentive for an energy truce
- The Oleshky truce saved hundreds, but Russia used it to bring fresh troops, armor, and fuel within nine kilometers of Kherson, marines say
- “The days are long gone when EW complex looked like six trailers standing side by side”: Russia’s Starlink jammers go undercover, defense adviser says
- Drones hit Russia’s Samara oil hub that blends Urals export crude—first strike there since 11 October
- Kyiv plans new National Guard center to recruit foreigners. Front-line commander wants it built fast: half of them still come on donations
- HUR: Eight Chinese and four US manufacturers supply parts for Russia’s upgraded Gerbera drone. One with warhead already turned up on Poland’s coast
- Ukraine can buy 500 Patriot missiles, but they may arrive only in years. One estimate says they’d last about three months
- Ukraine’s Air Alert app was warn of radiation, chemicals, and street fighting in Kyiv. None of it was real
- Russia’s Starlink rival lost a second satellite after it apparently sat idle for 103 days
- Ukraine’s and Russia’s human rights commissioners agree to keep working on regular humanitarian missions after the Oleshky evacuation
- Over 80 meters long, a dry cargo hold, and an owner investigated over Russian drone operations: the ship Sweden boarded off Gotland
- Russia set a record for losses in October, and Ukraine took back more land than it lost
Daily Review
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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
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1709: Russian jet drone kills 14 on Dnipro railway platform beside a Zaporizhzhia-bound train
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.
