Exclusives
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Ukraine and SpaceX "brick" Russian Starlink terminals, freezing assaults across front. Russians forced to look for imperfect backup plans, which should slow down operations |
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Russia destroyed 60% of Ukraine's gas production—so where does Ukraine get gas now? (MAP). Three US LNG corridors now feed Ukraine's shattered energy system. |
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Half of Russia's budget now goes to war—and the Kremlin hid the real number (INFOGRAPHIC). German intelligence exposes systematic accounting deception. |
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Ukraine dominates the drone war at the front—but Russia owns the sky behind it. A flurry of deep strikes on Russian logistics by Ukrainian FP-2 drones belies a bigger problem: the Russians may be winning the deep drone war. |
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Behind the black windows: How Kyiv survives a winter in the dark (PHOTOS). In a city of prolonged blackouts and extreme freezes, survival in Kyiv has become a calculated battle fought with makeshift engineering and a finite supply of luck. |
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Ukrainians warned for years that Europe's human rights chief was a Kremlin conduit. The Epstein files just proved them right.. Thorbjørn Jagland offered to connect Jeffrey Epstein to Lavrov. KGB defectors had named him "Yuri" decades earlier. |
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Russia's GDP growth collapsed 76%—a Kremlin think tank says worse is coming (INFOGRAPHIC). Growth plunged from 4.3% to 1% in 2025, and a recession may follow in 2026. |
Military
Russian forces are hiding robots on field roads, camouflaging them carefully (VIDEO). Ukraine's 79th brigade destroyed two ground robots. The explosion reveals what they were carrying.
"He finds some kind of 'burrow' and corrects fire": Russia's Pokrovsk tactics reveal new generation of war. Russia sending young, motivated recon fighters to Pokrovsk.
"Something has changed — they are exhausted": commander notices a crack in the Russian offensive on Pokrovsk. A Ukrainian battalion commander says Russian forces still have enough manpower to attack every day, but the intensity has noticeably dropped as defenders hold the northern part of the city and run counter-operations.
Ukraine strikes heart of Russia's nuclear blackmail — hitting Oreshnik launch site with domestic FP-5 cruise missiles. Ukraine's FP-5 "Flamingo" reaches Kapustin Yar.
Intelligence and technology
This vehicle has become Ukraine's battlefield legend. "Predator" built partly from trophy Russian ABT-102 aluminum, hits 120 km/h off-road. Can't restore Russian equipment? Melt it down. Build buggies.
Russia used Starlink in strike drones that reached Kyiv. SpaceX's response collapsed entire command systemic. Russian military bloggers are admitting it openly. What happened to Starlink access changed everything.
International
Russian oil discounts hit new high as Trump's India deal creates uncertainty — China gets all benefits. Trump announces India deal. Modi says nothing.
Suspilne: "We are people, not ice," Greenlanders say as Trump's threats upend their lives. Ukrainian reporters with Suspilne find Greenlanders gripped by fear after Trump called their island a "piece of ice"
A small Baltic capital just gave away its emergency supplies — because Ukraine needed them more. Tallinn pulled dozens of generators and diesel heat guns from its own strategic stockpiles and sent them to Zhytomyr Oblast, where repeated Russian attacks on energy infrastructure have created a dire situation this winter.
Humanitarian and social impact
157 Ukrainians return from Russian captivity in first POW swap since October 2025 (PHOTOS). Among those freed are wounded servicemembers from across Ukraine's military branches, with 139 of the released prisoners held in Russian captivity since 2022.
Zelenskyy says 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed in interview with French media. Independent estimates sugest the real estimate may be up to 140,000 dead
Europe scrambles to ship generators to Ukraine as thousands of Kyiv families remain without heat three days after Russian strikes. International partners delivered backup energy equipment totaling over 145 MW in a single week, while over 230 repair crews battle to restore heating knocked out during Russia's overnight attack on 3 February.
Kindergarten, school, railway's warming shelter among Russia's overnight targets as Trump-pushed Abu Dhabi talks enter day two (PHOTOS). Russian forces launched 183 drones two ballistic, hitting railway infrastructure and energy systems. A female station duty officer in Shostka district was injured walking to her shift.
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