Exclusives
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Ukraine wrapped the occupied south in three layers of drones. Russian trucks are burning. Strikes doubled February to March—and the Russians retreated |
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Tulsi Gabbard, the DNI who called Biden a ‘warmonger’ for backing Ukraine is resigning. Gabbard resigns as US intelligence chief, citing husband's cancer. |
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Russia threatens NATO member Latvia with retaliation. Rubio calls it “concerning”. Russia's UN ambassador threatened to strike Latvia. The US Secretary of State said the situation raises concerns. |
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Ukraine’s attack on Moscow: Show of force? Yes. Path of revenge? Not quite.. Moscow's air defense "never coped under the pressure of regular UAVs." |
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Ukraine’s deputy agriculture minister on the 2026 sowing, the labor crisis, and a sector holding steady under fire. Taras Vysotskyi on the 2026 sowing season, the war’s drag on labor, and a sector that has refused to contract. |
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EU will return to buying Russian gas once war ends, new Hungarian PM Magyar predicts. The new prime minister told Rzeczpospolita the calculation is set by competitiveness and geography, contrary to the bloc's three-year phase-out plan. |
Military
Ukraine targets Russian fuel flows and Black Sea naval assets in coordinated overnight strikes. The General Staff says multiple strategic infrastructure sites were hit over May 23–24.
Ukraine's "long-range sanctions" hit fuel-pumping station supplying central Russia and Moscow region fuel network. The drone attack hit a key Transneft pipeline node in Vladimir Oblast, triggering a large fire.
BREAKING: Russia reportedly struck Kyiv Oblast with Oreshnik intercontinental ballistic missile.
Russian showed his military ID in mud and declared him dead. He survived and went back for gun. He also shot down eight Russian drones in the past few weeks.
Metafrax Chemicals plant, supplying dozens of military facilities, halts operation after Ukraine's strikes 1,700 km inside Russia. Today's strike was Ukraine's one in the series of attacks on the same Russian chemical plant in eight months.
Ukraine strikes "Rubicon" elite Russian drone unit in occupied Luhansk Oblast — while Moscow accuses Kyiv of hitting civilians. Ukraine's General Staff said the overnight strike package included a Russian unit known for drone attacks on Ukrainian civilians.
Ukraine has struck 24 of Russia's 33 largest refineries since 2022, Russian media reports. Only the Omsk and Angarsk refineries, both located east of the Urals, remain outside the strike zone, the publication said.
Intelligence and technology
Russia is now losing 95% of its Shaheds to Ukrainian interception. Moscow's response will be jet-powered variants and border-area targeting. Russia previously lost 12-15% of its Shaheds to Ukrainian air defense. Now Ukraine intercepts 95%.
Russia's 1,392-vessel shadow fleet is now hybrid-warfare tool. It will continue as long as its export capacity remains unharmed. The 1,392-vessel shadow fleet carrying up to 80% of Russia's crude oil maritime exports is the financial backbone of Moscow's wartime economy.
Russia captures Hornet AI drone that Ukraine uses to cut logistics 150 km behind front — without software that makes it work. Russian-language military channels have themselves acknowledged that Hornet strikes are inflicting systematic losses on Russian supply routes.
International
France's Macron warned Lukashenka not to drag Belarus into Russia's war. The call was the first since 26 February 2022. Minsk confirmed it took place at Paris's initiative — but the French presidency hasn't yet.
Trump announces 5,000 US troops to Poland — one week after US froze scheduled combat-team rotation and amid Russia's threat. Meanwhile, Russia began its nuclear drills in Belarus, bordering Poland.
Russia is "directing" Ukrainian drones into NATO territory, Estonian foreign minister says. The minister spoke ahead of an alliance foreign ministers meeting in Helsingborg, Sweden, where colleagues rejected Moscow's claims of Baltic complicity.
Humanitarian and social impact
Kyiv endures massive overnight aerial assault with widespread damage reported across 50 locations, at least 2 dead. Residential areas, schools, markets, and key cultural sites were damaged in an overnight attack.
Russian operators deliberately wound pensioners aged 83, 80, and 69, who can't escape their FPVs in Kherson Oblast. Russian drones wounded an 83-year-old man and killed a 64-year-old woman in her own home.
Russian operator saw funeral procession in Sumy on his screen and steered FPV drone into it, killing one person. A drone hit the bus carrying mourners the day after Ukraine's prosecutors released 11,000 cases of small-drone attacks on civilians.
Ukraine documents 11,000 Russian FPV attacks on civilians, including "double strikes" on same site after medics and firefighters arrive. The cumulative count rose from 2,427 in 2024 to 6,771 in 2025, and is already at 2,010 in the first four months of 2026.
Political and legal developments
Zelenskyy responds to Merz: Ukraine has been defending Europe fully, not with half measures and has to have right to vote in EU. With Orban out of power, Zelenskyy wants full EU membership, not Germany's "associate" compromise.
Ukraine receives remains of Andrii Melnyk, OUN's second head and Sachsenhausen prisoner. He will be reburied at pantheon of heroes. Nazi Germany arrested Melnyk in 1941. He spent 1944 at Sachsenhausen.
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