Exclusives
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Dobropillia diversion: did Russia trick Ukraine into losing Pokrovsk?. A Russian incursion north of Pokrovsk in August diverted Ukrainian reinforcements. Was it all in the Kremlin's plan? |
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The Boomerang Soldiers: How Romania’s commandos became mercenaries—then came back to coup Bucharest. Instructors who fought for Wagner in Africa trained operatives in Balkan forest camps. Those operatives deployed to sabotage Moldova's vote, storm Romania's capital, and fight in Ukraine—the same personnel, modular missions. |
Military
Frontline report: Russia's pincer movement fails as Ukraine defends key Dnipropetrovsk position
Russian forces attempted a risky pincer movement to outflank Ukrainian defenses near Velykomykhailivka in Dnipropetrovsk region, but Ukrainian drone operators and tank crews systematically destroyed the infiltrators, inflicting at least a dozen confirmed casualties and halting the advance.
Frontline report: Ukrainian special forces launch daring Black Hawk raid to hold Pokrovsk's northern corridor
As Russian forces gain footholds in southern Pokrovsk, Ukraine has shifted its defense strategy to maintaining the northern corridor and preventing Myrnohrad's encirclement. A bold helicopter raid by special forces secured key entry points, giving Ukrainian defenders fresh momentum in what has become a flexible, layered defense of the critical logistics artery.
Renewable energy facility struck by Russian drones amid escalating energy assault
Strike on biomass facility part of Russia's intensified campaign targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure ahead of winter.
Changed Russian energy attack tactics complicate Ukraine's blackout recovery – Energy Ministry
New dual-target attacks on both power generation sites and transmission networks slow restoration after 8 November attack forces nationwide rolling blackouts.
Intelligence and Technology
Resistance saboteurs torch four Russian military logistics sites in coordinated raids inside Russia (VIDEO)
Ukrainian intelligence says resistance groups torched communication equipment and railway infrastructure, disrupting supply routes supporting Russian forces in Ukraine.
Deep in occupied Crimea, partisans cut railway feeding Russia's Kherson and Zaporizhzhia fronts
ATESH operation disrupts ammunition and fuel deliveries to Kherson and Zaporizhzhia as partisan movement targets Russian logistics in occupied Crimea.
Ukraine can't match Russia's Rubicon drone expansion: elite unit scales from company to battalion in months – Ukrainian drone commander
Ukrainian commander says Moscow's Rubicon center uses United Russia party youth programs to train thousands of future drone operators, giving Russia manpower and funding advantages Ukraine cannot replicate.
International
"Painful moment": Ex-NATO chief recalls refusing to close Ukraine's sky when Russia invaded
Former NATO secretary-general's memoirs reveal he feared the February 2022 bunker call might be Zelenskyy's last, but believes refusing direct NATO intervention was the right decision.
UK deploys anti-drone forces to Belgium after suspected Russian drone incursions
Growing wave of drone incidents across Europe prompts allied response to suspected Russian hybrid operations.
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