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What if Russia uses nuclear weapons? Can we say Ukraine brought peace to world? Norwegian professor who nominated Zelenskyy and Ukrainians for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize takes on tough questionsHe explains why he thinks US President Donald Trump won't win the Nobel Peace Prize this year, and why Ukraine should. -
A Nobel laureate’s deal: free Russia’s prisoners, fund the missiles hitting UkraineThe laureate is Dmitry Muratov, and the deal he urged on Washington would lift sanctions on Russia's war economy in exchange for releasing the very dissidents the Kremlin jailed. -
Ukraine fired its first FP-7 ballistic missile in combat. Its maker says next version will do what Ukraine needed since 2022Zelensky announced the launch on 1 October without naming the target, and wrote that production comes next. -
Ukraine keeps finding ways to replace its MiG-29s. It’s running out of MiG-29s to findThe latest loss came Thursday, when Capt. Marat Mambetov, 25, ejected after a Russian missile hit his jet on a strike mission but did not survive. -
Ukraine is now sending its tanks into battle with drone escorts: they can drive into a Russian kill zone and come back aliveThe 475th Assault Regiment, short of infantry, was clearing Russian infiltrators out of Vilkhuvatka, a Kharkiv Oblast village 9 km from the Russian border, and its hedgehog tanks took repeated hits on the way to point-blank range. -
Russia just accidentally crashed its first Tu-95 bomber in 11 years. Its missiles will keep striking Ukraine anywayIt is out of production and Russia's bomber fleet keeps shrinking, but a raid on 8 September needed just six bombers, and Russia still has around a hundred. -
When Kremlin energy talking points come with an Oxford addressRussian energy disinformation does not always look like propaganda. Sometimes it presents itself in the form of expert analysis, a policy advisor, or technical commentary inside Europe's energy debate, and that is exactly what makes this new form of influence worth examining. -
In Ukraine’s Vivaldi offensive, nobody rides in the BTR-60s. Bulgaria’s old troop carriers go into Russian bunkers packed with minesToo thinly armored for infantry, 110 Bulgarian-donated BTR-60s now go into Russian bunkers near Lyman packed with anti-tank mines and nobody inside. -
Europe and Ukraine already have the force to stop Russia. What’s missing is the alliance.The war may reach Europe by 2027; NATO won't be ready until 2035. The fastest deterrent already exists: a declared alliance with Ukraine's combat-proven force. -
Ukraine’s tanks are fighting from kilometers back. A 1960s Soviet model does that nearly as wellUkraine captured more than 40 T-62Ms from Russia, mostly during the 2022 counteroffensives, and has not registered a confirmed combat loss since. -
For years Ukraine could jam or switch off Russia’s battlefield comms. Rassvet may be the first it can’tSanctioning the firm behind Russia's Starlink won't stop it. It can make every satellite slower and costlier to build—and the clock is short. -
Two plants make 70% of Ukraine’s steel. Russia hit both. Then ports closed, rail costs rose 30%, and the EU’s carbon tax kicked inThe head of Ukraine's largest steel plant says the government needs a single rescue document with deadlines and assigned agencies, because each problem stalls when handled alone. -
Vivaldi’s secret weapon was the targeting, not the robots: Third Corps reconnaissance mapped Russian command nodes, then hit them to cause panicThe officer said disrupting command and communications was one of the tasks set directly by the corps commander, with brigade and corps intelligence identifying the areas to strike. -
Ukraine’s chief prosecutor fled. Politicians still choose the man who can prosecute them.He is only the latest prosecutor general to leave the office in disgrace, and the office is the reason. -
Europe gave Russia years to perfect its aerial killing. Ukraine is paying the price. Europe may be next.Russia has spent four years adapting its drones, missiles and tactics against Ukraine. As Russian attacks become harder to stop, Ukrainian civilians are paying the price – while Europe is increasingly worried about a threat it has had years to prepare for. -
“A warning to companies that remain”: Russia takes control of Nestlé and Auchan’s assets – companies that stayed in Russia following the full-scale invasion of UkraineThe companies had been warned that remaining in Russia could expose their investments to seizure as the Kremlin increasingly uses foreign-owned businesses as leverage. B4Ukraine says companies should leave while they still can. -
“I can travel back to Finland and be safe. That is a luxury”: Sanna Marin on the Russian strike that stopped her train from KyivThe former Finnish prime minister has visited Ukraine around ten times since the full-scale invasion. This trip, she says, had more air-raid alarms than any of them, and a Russian drone hit the train travelling beside hers to the Polish border. -
The West has tried everything except ending the warDiplomacy, sanctions, 200 rounds of talks—Russia used all of it to buy time. Diesel prices in America are just the tsunami's latest wave. -
Russian spies ran a campaign against Kyiv on Anthropic’s Claude, and the AI chatbot’s maker caught them at itThe operators automated phishing, intrusion, and data theft, leaving the human to refine the workflows. -
Ukraine retook 240 square km north of Lyman and nobody reported it for three monthsThe 3rd Army Corps attacked on 22 May and nobody outside the army reported it until late August. Whether it changes the war is the one thing the analysts do not agree on.
