Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1589: Ukraine strikes Russia’s Su-30 hangars

Exclusives

Sasha Dovzhyk: "We have to be creative". Sasha Dovzhyk runs INDEX, a Lviv institute that brings foreign scholars to live inside wartime Ukraine long enough to get it right. She spoke with Euromaidan Press about epistemic justice and why she thinks the world still lets Moscow narrate its neighbors.

Russia's factories survived two years of Ukrainian deep strikes. Not anymore.. The warheads finally got heavy enough to leave damage that lasts—and Ukraine's drones cleared the air defenses that used to stop the missiles short.

Ukraine lost three fighters in one day—one outranged in the air, two caught on the ground. The Gripen fixes both. A Russian missile downed one MiG from beyond the range it could shoot back; drones caught the other two parked. The Swedish jet that arrives next year is built against exactly these losses.

EU sends Ukraine $3.9 bn for drones — and explains the holdup. Contract vetting delayed the defense portion of the loan

Military

Ukraine says it has Donetsk airport under "fire control." Satellite images show Russia building there anyway. Russia is enlarging launch pads at Donetsk Airport for its jet-powered Geran-3 drones, new satellite imagery shows.

Ukraine says it hit Russian hangars in Crimea holding Su-30 jets worth up to $50 million each. Ukraine's SBU claims 5 drone hits on Russian Su-30 fighter hangars at Saky airfield in Crimea.

"We flew at wave height" — Ukrainian pilots recount mission to retake Zmiinyi (Snake) Island. Ukrainian pilots recount a low-altitude helicopter mission over the Black Sea that helped pave the way for Zmiinyi (Snake) Island's liberation.

The Penza institute builds sensors for the missiles that hit Ukraine. Now it's smoking.. Its parts go into Iskanders, Kh-101 cruise missiles, and Russia's newest Su-57 fighter.

Intelligence and technology

Ukraine's media are top Russian cyber target: Hackers hit Ukrainian TV site with 200,000 requests in minute. The SBU says Ukrainian media are one of Russia's priority cyber targets since the 2022 full-scale war.

Russia's Shaheds cost $10,000 each. Ukraine just unveiled drone that kills them for $2,000. Ukraine unveiled the ZIRKA drone interceptor at $2,000 per unit with automated targeting.

Denmark changes Europe's approach to arming Ukraine with €590M package. The package includes ammunition, weapons, and equipment, as well as funding for Ukrainian military training. On the same day, Danish Defense Minister Jeppe Bruus met Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov in Kyiv.

Japan and Ukraine will jointly develop and produce military drones. The SCMP reported Tokyo is drawing on Ukraine's war against Russia to accelerate its own programs.

Western tanks gave Ukraine one thing its wwn tanks don't have. In 36°C heatwave, crews feel difference. Ukraine's Soviet-era T-72 tanks have no air conditioning as European heatwave pushes toward 36°C.

One more entry in fast-filling interceptor lineup: Ukraine's new Talion can kill drone or be drone. Russia scaled its drone campaign. Ukraine scaled its interception industry.

Ukraine took Soviet Strela-10 and built its own air-defense system on it. RYF is already guarding sky. Ukraine is serially producing its own laser-guided SAM with Soviet-era roots, and it's working.

Ukrainian drone that downed Russia's rarest spy UAV just bagged its anti-drone interceptor too. Ukraine destroyed Russia's new Sokol-I anti-drone interceptor for the first time.

International

Sweden signed heritage deal with Ukraine aboard ship that beat Russia in 1790. Choice wasn't accident. Sweden and Ukraine signed a memorandum to document Cossack sites Russia's Kakhovka dam attack uncovered.

France pivots on visas for Russians, shutting application shortcuts as EU crackdown spreads. Paris reverses course months after posting the EU's steepest rise in Russian visa issuance.

Zelenskyy's UPA unit naming had nothing to do with Volhynia. The historian who holds the same Polish award says Poland got that wrong.. "This affair will cost Poland in the future": Norman Davies on why Warsaw misread the UPA dispute

NATO chief Rutte tells Trump: Europe's arms spending supports 195,000 US jobs, $300bn in orders. Days before NATO's Ankara summit, Rutte traded security arguments for economic ones.

What Moscow does to foreign embassies, Latvia will now do to Russia's. PM Braže said Russian services routinely screen people entering other countries' diplomatic buildings in the Russian capital.

Humanitarian and social impact

The Netherlands is sending its worn-out wind turbines to Ukraine instead of the scrapheap. Ukrainian buyers are installing them to decentralize a grid that Russian strikes have battered through four winters.

Political and legal developments

Ukraine opened a criminal case over 25 non-combat deaths at its largest assault regiment. Serving soldier's response was to call reporter "media killer". Forensic findings show fractured ribs and blunt chest trauma in multiple cases officially recorded as pneumonia. Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigations is now treating the regiment's commander as a suspect.

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