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Ukraine is developing its own unstoppable air-launched missile. Russia's Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile is extremely hard to intercept. That's why Ukraine wants its own version of the missile. |
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Neutrality doesn't mean indifference: Austria joins tribunal to prosecute Russia's aggression. Vienna says neutrality doesn't mean indifference as it becomes the 20th state to back prosecution of Russia's crime of aggression. |
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Either Russia's air defense doesn't work, or NATO is launching drones, says Russia's Shoigu. Shoigu cites Article 51. |
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Soviet 14th Army's heirs just became persona non grata in Moldova. Chișinău drew a line on the Dniester. |
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Ukraine's executives were most optimistic since the invasion. Oil had other plans.. The results capture a moment that no longer reflects current conditions. |
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Slovenia's new parliament speaker claims he's not pro-Russian, plans Moscow visit, promises referendum on NATO exit. With Orbán voted out by Hungary in a landslide, Slovakia's Fico now has a potential EU ally in Stevanović — Slovenia's newly elected parliament speaker who backs lifting anti-Russian sanctions. |
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Emergency boilers sat in storage all winter. Now Ukraine is rethinking the whole approach.. Russia's energy campaign failed to break Ukraine. Kyiv has until October to build something stronger than luck. |
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WSJ: Europe is quietly building a NATO fallback in case the US steps back. Germany's shift — driven by Merz's conclusion that Trump was prepared to abandon Ukraine and had confused victim with aggressor — unlocked a broader coalition. |
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Russian air defenses are collapsing. Now Ukrainian warplanes can hit harder.. It's no surprise the Ukrainian air force targeted a Russian drone storage site in Donetsk recently. It's how the air force hit the site that's surprising. And bad news for Russia. |
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Politico: Fico is first in line for Orbán's disruptor crown — but Brussels has four more leaders to worry about. Fico threatened to veto Ukraine's €90 billion loan. Babiš demanded a carveout. Meloni told leaders she understood Orbán. Radev called Ukraine doomed. Janša is the only one who supports Kyiv — and he may not even form a government. |
Military
SBU and drone forces destroy Russian fuel trains near Luhansk, cutting supplies to frontline troops. FP-2 drones struck railway tankers and damaged rail infrastructure Russia uses to sustain mechanized units on the front.
Ukraine's drone forces claim 16-target overnight strike – Iskander bases, air defenses, and a Rubikon workshop. The operation spanned Crimea, Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia, coordinated through a newly established deep strike center.
Hero of 2022 battles will now command defense of five oblasts on Ukraine's Eastern Front.
Ukraine holds Hryshyne's center and northern Pokrovsk outskirts as Russia builds up for its next push, military says. Russian forces failed to consolidate in Hryshyne's center, while Ukraine continued detecting and destroying Russian targets throughout southern Pokrovsk to disrupt a buildup there.
"Just stop oil": Ukraine's drones return to Tuapse — the Rosneft site where the refinery and the Black Sea export pier are one asset. Fires confirmed by satellite at the pier, tank farm, and power plant represent another round in Ukraine's sustained effort to reduce Russia's oil export revenues.
Intelligence and technology
Drones Russia thought were unjammable just met US LEONIDAS microwave weapon. Fiber-optic UAVs threaten logistics 50 km deep.
Ukraine's Patriot crews are rationing missiles mid-attack — Ukraine's Air Force confirms interceptor missile shortage. An AF spokesman confirmed that the stocks of Patriot interceptors — the only solution against Russian ballistic missiles — are critically depleted.
Humanitarian and social impact
He flew from Peru to Moscow for work. Russia took his passport and sent him to Ukraine.. A Peruvian's account of abduction and coerced conscription adds Latin America to the map of Russia's global recruitment dragnet.
How Russia killed 16 Ukrainian civilians overnight — even as Ukraine intercepted 95% of its missiles and drones (updated). Two waves of missiles and Shahed-type drones — 703 aerial weapons in total — hit Kyiv and other cities, killing a child and three adults in the capital, eight people in one Odesa building, and three more across central Ukraine.
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