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Ukraine’s anti-corruption court upholds 6-year term for ex-tax chief in gas scheme
Appeals chamber confirms sentence nine years on, with the clock nearly out.
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05 April 2026
- Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026Ukraine’s big boom FP-2 drones just blew up four Russian Orions inside their Crimean hangar
- Witkoff and Kushner may make first-ever Kyiv visit, Ukraine’s Presidential Office chief says
- Turkish President Erdogan offers to host Ukraine-Russia-US talks, Zelenskyy says yes
- Euromaidan Press is fighting a two-front war for Ukraine’s truth. And we need you on both
- Ukraine hits Crimea drone base: One Inokhodets UAV destroyed, three damaged — each unit worth millions
- US intel warns Iran won’t budge on Hormuz
- Five dead at Nikopol market after morning drone strike — on top of 286 overnight
- OpinionTrump wants out of NATO. Good. Let him go.
- Military techUkraine’s top defense market segments more than doubled to $6.8 Billion in 2025
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1500: Ukraine may be striking Russia’s shadow fleet from Libya — and Egypt just switched sides on stolen grain
- Egypt was Russia’s biggest stolen-grain customer. Now it pledges to buy Ukrainian wheat instead.
- Magyar’s Birds took out a Buk-M1, wiped fuel stocks, and hit logistics in Luhansk – all in one night
- InternationalStoltenberg offered Russia NATO troop withdrawals from the Baltic region — without asking the Baltic states
- Another Russian national off the US sanctions list — this time a former finance minister who ran Russia’s third-largest bank
- Ukrainian troops in Libya: a launchpad for Mediterranean strikes on Russian shadow fleet – RFI
- Drones caused 96% of Russia’s losses in March – 34,000 troops killed or wounded
- Money MattersUkraine’s anti-corruption court upholds 6-year term for ex-tax chief in gas scheme
- Russian Su-30 fighter crashes in occupied Crimea — fourth Russian military aircraft loss in four days
- Russian troops keep crawling through the pipelines. Ukraine’s drone units have every exit covered.
- Ukrainian factories join France’s Alstom in building 55 locomotives for Ukraine
- Glide bomb kills one in Shostka apartment block as Russia batters Ukrainian cities—newborn among five wounded in Kharkiv
- InternationalSweden finds a 12 km oil slick east of Gotland — boards sanctioned “shadow fleet” tanker
- Money MattersOvercrowded, understaffed, overpriced: Kyiv’s wartime kiosk wave collapses
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1500: Ukraine may be striking Russia’s shadow fleet from Libya — and Egypt just switched sides on stolen grain
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1499: Ukraine struck ten Russian oil refineries, twelve air defense systems in March
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1498: Ukraine crushes Russia’s biggest assault on Sloviansk front of 2026
Industry focus
Ukraine files extradition request with Israel for Midas suspects—outcome far from certain
Both suspects are Israeli citizens. Israel almost never extradites its own.
UAE says it would join Hormuz fight as Iran fires 2,500 missiles at Dubai
A country that was mediating between Washington and Tehran as recently as February is now lobbying for a military coalition to seize Iranian-held islands and clear the Strait of Hormuz by force — a strategic about-face driven by nearly 2,500 Iranian missiles and drones that have hit Dubai's airports, hotels, and airline routes.
Szijjártó told Russia’s deputy minister he’d removed 72 entities from EU sanctions — then asked Moscow to write his arguments for removing more
The detail, buried in leaked transcripts from a call with Russia's deputy energy minister, reveals the full scope of Hungary's collusion: not just delisting oligarchs on request, but seeking Kremlin-authored justifications for Budapest's own EU lobbying.
Most drone-armored tanks can’t fire their guns. Ukraine just fixed that on an Abrams
The Ukrainian 1st Assault Regiment is readying its ex-Australian M-1 tanks for assaults through Russia's drone kill zone.
Ukraine fired its NATO trainers. The alliance is running out of time to learn why.
Ten Ukrainians eliminated two allied battalions in a day. The frigate crew never saw the attack coming.
Frontline report
Are Russian Shaheds mounting radar-hunting modules?
"Theoretically, it can autonomously guide the UAV to active radio sources, including radar.”
Russia sentenced a Ukrainian journalist to 13 years for a beet juice protest — in absentia. Now it wants her arrested abroad, and Ukraine’s NGOs say it won’t stop there
Twenty-one Ukrainian media outlets and NGOs, including Euromaidan Press, signed a joint condemnation warning that Zemlyana's case is a template Russia will use against Ukrainian journalists and media workers documenting war crimes and exposing the aggressor.
Kremlin-linked analysts confirm Russia’s freight collapse is structural—not a seasonal dip
Russia’s railways show a civilian economy at its weakest since 2009.
Russia putting decoy missiles on Shaheds to distract defenders from real ones
"We need to think about how we can distinguish Shaheds with fake missiles."
Inside the EU parliament: the bloc Ukraine wants to join is already fracturing
A Baltic MEP on Hungary’s veto, Europe's war fatigue, and why the bloc Ukraine wants to join is already splitting apart.
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.
Analysis
Zaluzhnyi now blames Zelenskyy for the counteroffensive. He wasn’t always so sure.
Ukraine's cursed 2023 counteroffensive ran into Europe's largest fortified belt without air cover. The blame game between Kyiv's leaders lets the biggest culprit off the hook.