Exclusives
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Blowing up a key dam, the Russians marched into Kostiantynivka. But not for long.. Unable to capture Kostiantynivka with a direct assault, the Russians are trying to drown and strangle the city's garrison. |
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Putin sends election fixers to Budapest to keep Orbán’s Kremlin veto alive. A GRU-linked cell embedded in the Russian Embassy is running Moscow's Moldova playbook on Hungarian soil—and the stakes for Ukraine could not be higher |
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Lights on, economy limping: Ukraine’s real energy reckoning in March 2026. Russia failed to freeze Ukraine this winter. All 15 thermal plants are still destroyed. And Russia has already moved on to trains. |
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US gives India 30 days to offload 140 million barrels of Russian crude—oil its own sanctions stranded at sea. Washington’s waiver covers crude that accumulated offshore after its own pressure campaign cut India’s Russian imports by more than a third. |
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Ukrainian drones now hammer Russia’s last Black Sea Fleet refuge from the sky—and this time, there’s no escape. Hundreds of Ukrainian drones keep Russia's Black Sea Fleet bottled up in its last safe port, Novorossiysk in southern Russia. |
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EU may pay Ukraine to fix pipeline Russia keeps bombing—as Fico refuses to meet Zelenskyy first. Fico says he “wouldn’t believe Zelenskyy if he told him the sky was blue”—so he’s asking Brussels to check first. |
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Ukraine kept the F-16 missile shortage secret for months — sources say pilots were flying with rotary cannons as Russia ramped up winter strikes. The nearly month-long AIM-9 drought forced dangerous daytime-only sorties. |
Military
"Air defense zoo": Ukraine's drones took out Russian Pantsir, Tor, Buk, and S-300V in one night over occupied south. Two separate units of Ukraine's drone forces struck Russian air defense assets across occupied Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts overnight on 6 March, using domestic FP-2 drones.
"The era of Russian armored assaults is over": Ukraine's drones stopped a Russian column near Lyman – then chased it into retreat to finish the job. The Third Army Corps says coordinated drone-artillery strikes have made Russia's armored assault tactics obsolete near Lyman.
Russia is preparing a spring offensive in Donetsk, Zelenskyy warns after frontline visit. Ukraine's president toured frontline brigades, awarded soldiers, and promised to address operational shortfalls.
Two more Pantsirs gone: Ukraine hits Crimea airbase and aircraft repair plant in overnight raid. The overnight strike also hit a Mohajer-6 drone, fuel tankers, and a Forpost ground control station near Dzhankoi.
Ukraine's "Ghosts" hit Russian patrol ship, S-400 radar, helicopter in Crimea in February raids. Ukraine's military intelligence released video of the precision strikes, which hit naval and air defense targets throughout February.
Ukraine timed its Huliaipole operation around the weather — and it worked. Here's why that won't happen again soon. A regiment commander says Ukraine's recent advances were a tactical operation to stabilize the front — not the sweeping counteroffensive being celebrated online.
Waves of explosions light up Black Sea: Ukrainian Naval Forces hit Russian drilling platform at Sivash. Russian export revenue bleeds, as every platform lost slams Moscow's war chest.
Russia's frigate Admiral Essen can no longer fire Kalibr missiles after Ukrainian strike, SBU sources confirm. The ship launched the Kalibrs that destroyed Mykolaiv's regional council building in 2022. Ukraine's latest drone assault on Novorossiysk port damaged at least five ships.
Intelligence and technology
Russian military intel hid fire bombs in sex toy parcels targeting European cargo planes, investigators say. A parcel caught fire at a DHL depot in the UK, another in a Polish delivery truck, a third at Leipzig airport minutes before a cargo flight.
Russia is deploying knockoffs of Ukraine's Vampire heavy bomber drones — and the 81st Brigade has already shot down five. The heavy hexacopters — the type Russian troops themselves nicknamed "Baba Yaga" — have been appearing over the Sloviansk axis for several weeks now, with more expected.
One radar to rule them all: Ukraine's CD-T10 spots everything from FPV drones to guided aerial bombs inside a 15 km dome. Already undergoing battlefield testing, the X-band system uses AI to distinguish real threats from birds by analyzing each contact's physical size, speed, and flight path — and feeds targeting data to anti-air crews.
Ukraine's Ptashka smashes strike quadcopter records, flying on glass thread that Russia can't see. Ukraine's Ptashka rewrites the drone rulebook with a record 50 km range.
This new Ukrainian robot sneaks through ruins carrying drones in its belly, waits for Russian column, and strikes from bush. Ukraine's Hnom-ND is a patient predator, as it crawls behind enemy lines.
International
Russia could field a 50% larger army and be ready to attack NATO within six years if sanctions are lifted, Lithuania warns. Russia is using the war in Ukraine to train the force it plans to use against NATO next, Lithuanian intelligence assesses.
The drone pipeline reverses: Russia now gives intel for Iranian strikes against American troops – Washington Post. A partnership built in Ukraine's skies is now being used against American positions in the Middle East.
US and Qatar want Ukraine's Shahed killers. Zelenskyy wants Patriot missiles in return. Reuters reveals the three-way US-Qatar-UK pursuit of Ukraine's interceptor drone technology, with government-to-government talks underway and a British-Ukrainian joint factory potentially in line to supply.
Belgian F-16s can carry JDAMs and AIM-120Ds — but Ukraine cannot use them yet. Belgium stalls F-16 transfers to Ukraine while Netherlands and Denmark already delivered theirs.
Humanitarian and social impact
Ukraine brings home 300 more soldiers and two civilians on second day of POW swap — 500 freed in total over two days. Ukraine confirmed the final stage of the exchange agreed in Geneva, returning soldiers from across all branches — including Mariupol defenders held since 2022.
Ukraine brings home 200 POWs, including Mariupol defenders held four years in Russian captivity — in only real result of Geneva talks. Zelenskyy thanks the US and Donald Trump for supporting prisoner exchange.
Political and legal developments
Hungary releases Ukrainian bank couriers after Kyiv calls detention "hostage-taking" and threatens sanctions. Budapest held seven Oschadbank employees and two armored vehicles for over a day — Kyiv said it's tied to Orbán's election campaign.
Hungary abducts Ukrainian state bank employees along with cash-in-transit vehicles amid pressure over Russian oil. Kyiv accuses Hungary of holding seven Ukrainian bank couriers and seizing state funds.
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