Exclusives
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Ukrainian drones adopt focused antennas to slip by Russian detection. Reinforces connection and makes drones harder to clock |
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Russia's bombers hit harder with fewer planes. Their missiles now hide in drone swarms.. A Tu-22M3 crash in Irkutsk exposes a darker paradox: Russia's bomber fleet keeps shrinking, but Russia's bombing keeps getting smarter. |
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Russians deploy massive $1.5M Starlink jammers, Ukrainians are blowing them up. Bulky, powerful, flammable |
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Russia quietly lets refiners sell lower-grade Euro-3 fuel as drone strikes squeeze supply. A rule eased since last autumn now allows gasoline to contain 15 times the EU sulfur limit, as rationing spreads across Russia. |
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Fuel shortages reach Moscow and St. Petersburg as Ukraine's strikes squeeze Russian refining. Filling-station limits, jet-fuel curbs, and farmers short of diesel now span over 25 Russian regions. |
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Ukraine's newest Abrams brigade just built the "dumbest" tank cage of the war. In 2026, that barely matters.. The 160th Mechanized Brigade is an odd choice to operate some of Ukraine's approximately 50 surviving M-1 tanks. |
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Russia won't start a nuclear war. It might cause a nuclear disaster.. For the first time in history, a major war is being fought around 15 nuclear reactors. The West fears a Russian strike; the real danger is the disaster it has chosen not to see. |
Military
Russia started war with 41 Tu-22M3 irreplaceable bombers. It may have nine left. Russia stopped producing the Tu-22 in all variants in 1993, with no replacement program planned, leaving surviving bombers irreplaceable as combat losses and accidents mount.
Ukraine struck Chonhar bridge to cut fuel to Russia's 37th brigade. Its battalion commander died by suicide days later. The Ukrainian unit claims Russian command pressured Munkuyev to execute combat tasks.
Ukraine strikes Krasnodar fuel depot as Russia's gasoline crisis widens. The depot fed filling stations in a region that ran dry weeks ago.
Ukraine strikes Moscow's largest oil refinery, 15 kilometers from the Kremlin. Putin pulled nearly all of Russia's key air defense to the capital. It was not enough.
Estonia's defense commander went to Ukrainian front line. Ukraine says partners need to see real situation themselves. Syrskyi separately met with brigade commanders to discuss Russian operations, current threats, and Ukrainian reinforcement options.
Intelligence and technology
At world's top defense exhibition in Paris, Ukraine and Sweden agree to mass-produce combat robot born on frontline. The partnership scales production of the MAUL casualty evacuation, logistics, and ammunition delivery platform.
Ukraine built 90% of its newly authorized weapons itself. Year ago, it was 70%. Of the 1,000 samples authorized, 892 are produced in Ukraine.
Missiles Ukraine uses to shoot down Russia's ballistic missiles are in short supply. Canada and Ukraine talked about fixing that. The ministers also discussed expanded Canadian investment in Ukrainian drone production and the procurement of long-range artillery ammunition through the Czech Initiative.
Britain to supply enriched uranium to Ukraine's reactors in $282 million deal. Fuel pledge aims to keep the grid running through winter.
International
Canada hits Russia with new sanctions at G7, a day after Lavra strike. Carney condemns the monastery attack and targets Russia's shadow fleet and energy revenues.
Zelenskyy at G7: Trump "positive" on missile licenses, but Europe needs a cheaper option. Washington's interceptor lines are stretched, and Zelenskyy wants Europe building its own.
Political and legal developments
Russian artist who mocked Putin warned about threats on Telegram. Hours later, gunman shot him three times in Poland. Russian opposition artist Semyon Skrepetsky (real name Robert Kuzovkov), 44, was shot dead on Monday 15 June in a residential parking lot in Biała Podlaska, eastern Poland, at around 10 a.m.
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