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Russia’s thermobaric launchers used to just drive up and fire. Now they move one at a time, in steel boxes built to stop Ukrainian drones
Ukraine has knocked out at least 36 of them. Twenty-seven burned outright.
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25 August 2026
- Russia’s attack drones now jam the cheap interceptors sent to kill them
- Ukrainian drone maker is pitching its new five-inch strike FPV as assault squad’s mortar
- Ukraine mapped Russia’s Su-35 down to individual control units—and found 22 firms nobody has sanctioned
- The fifth fire at the same refinery this year—and Russia still calls it debris
- Ukraine destroys depot that occupiers filled with generators, after Russian state TV filmed them
- Money MattersUkraine fires state bank chair after alleged $3.3 million bail-laundering scheme
- Russia set target specific target for military recruits in 2026: in Arkhangelsk Oblast, man was sent to front after being detained for drinking on street
- A Russian drone chose its own target and killed three. The code that told it what to look for was readable
- Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive takes the pressure off Sloviansk
- 582,000 children, 2,000 schools, no Ukrainian language: Russia sent occupied territories its first lesson – on “Unity of the Peoples of Russia”
- Chernivtsi Oblast commissions three mini power plants to keep heat on during blackouts
- About 50 grams of suspected military explosive lay in a German field 10 days after the attempt on Ukraine’s plane
- Aid the Ukrainian Red Cross stockpiled for winter in Kherson burned in a Russian drone attack
- Money MattersRussia turns failed drone defenses into grounds for state control of company assets
- OpinionUkraine escaped the empire in 1991. The empire struck back.
- Second Russian MiG-29 in two days: Ukraine’s drones worked over Millerovo airbase
- Russia grinds up the eastern approach to Sloviansk after its northeastern push stalled
- Ukraine returns 10 servicemen its own records had marked missing in action
- Russia’s biggest electronics chain delays seller payments as it expands online
- EU approves $7.12 billion for Ukraine’s defense as Kyiv marks 35 years of independence
- No GPS, no landmarks—how Ukraine’s drones hunt Russian spy drones far out over the Black Sea
- Money MattersWhy did Ozon fall as much as 29% while Russia’s market lost 2.9%?
- “You wanted our land. You lost your refineries and your fleet.”—Ukraine’s anniversary message to Russia
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1642: Ukraine sinks three Kalibr shooters, but at least four remain
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1641: Russia strikes Kyiv by ballistic missiles ahead of Independence Day
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1640: Russia’s drone strike on a Kryvyi Rih shopping center kills 15 and wounds 130, then a second wave hits the rescuers
NATO no longer deters Russia. A new coalition could
A formal declaration of Ukraine's alliance with European military powers would radically change Russia's calculus
How did Sberbank’s record dividend end up frozen for Western shareholders?
Russia’s largest bank keeps setting profit records and paying record dividends. For its shareholders in the West, that money is frozen in accounts they cannot touch.
Russia hunted civilians by drone in Kherson. Victims are suing the US firm they say helped connect the attackers
A New York networking company sold radios that let signals travel 100 kilometers. Ukrainian civilians say Russian drone crews used them to hunt people in Kherson, and they are asking a Manhattan jury to hold the company responsible. Ukrainian civilians and relatives of people killed by Russian drones sued Ubiquiti Inc. in the US District…
Ukraine’s quiet counteroffensive took 745 square km. Russia’s dead Starlink is how
Six months, 26 settlements, and almost no video. Russia lost its battlefield communications three days in, and Ukrainian armor drove through the gap.
Ukraine’s Zaporizhstal may idle half its capacity to fit new EU steel quotas
The EU dropped its steel duties in 2022 to help Ukraine through the war. On 1 July, it halved the tariff-free quotas and taxed the remainder at 50%.
Russia’s last “Ukraine peace deal” led to Europe’s biggest war since WWII. Here’s why this one could be worse.
Moscow isn’t just negotiating—it’s setting the stage. Behind closed doors, familiar tactics are at play, and the consequences could reshape Europe’s future once again.
Ukraine’s new Tu-95 killer is a $48,000 copy of a drone China refused to sell
Ukraine went to China to buy the drone. China refused. Two years later, the MICH 2000 costs $2,000 less than the original—and just took out a Russian bomber.
Is a fifth or well over half of Wildberries gone—or can both counts be right?
Estimates of how much of Wildberries Ukraine has burned run from a fifth of the network to well over half. Which is right depends on what you count. And some of the loudest claims don’t survive a check.
Moldova overtakes every EU country as Ukraine’s top dairy buyer
Ukraine is selling less dairy abroad and importing more—while Moldova, rather than an EU country, has become its largest foreign customer.
Russia’s biggest weapons maker has been under EU sanctions since 2022. Its 482 subsidiaries are the loophole.
A new NAKO analysis maps 482 companies inside Rostec and finds Western sanctions reach only a fraction of them—which is how the microelectronics in Russia's drones and missiles keep getting through.
Ukraine funds its war from wages, and a 1971 law keeps millions of women from earning them
Ukraine is short 4.5 million workers and 81% of its registered unemployed are women—yet a Soviet-era law still bars them from night shifts in the industries most desperate to fill them.
Why is Ukraine losing ground? Mobilization crisis and command failures exposed
Ukraine's military problems can no longer be ignored as mobilization failures and systemic issues lead to mounting territorial losses
Evergreens
Yes, Ukraine can win the war – ex-minister decodes victory plan
Zelenskyy's plan and Ukraine's victory are completely realistic, says Andriy Zagorodnyuk. But there is a crucial caveat -- the current paradigm must be changed.
Russia is squeezing independent gas stations out of its fuel market
Russia cannot make more fuel. So it’s handing the market to the state-linked majors, and the independent ones are being cut out.
A realistic victory strategy for Ukraine
In a war where offensive operations are equally difficult on both sides, not losing is already winning in the next year and a half
Analysis
Europe promised Ukraine a deterrence force. The missiles that would make it work arrive in 2029.
The only deep-strike production line opening sooner runs through Ukrainian factories.
