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Russia hunted civilians by drone in Kherson. Victims are suing the US firm they say helped connect the attackersA 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... -
Ukraine’s quiet counteroffensive took 745 square km. Russia’s dead Starlink is howSix 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 quotasThe 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%. -
Kosova is no precedent for Russia’s annexation of Crimea—Ukraine should say soAcknowledging Kosova’s exceptional path would strengthen Kyiv’s case against Moscow’s occupation referendums, not weaken it. -
Ukraine’s new Tu-95 killer is a $48,000 copy of a drone China refused to sellUkraine 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 buyerUkraine 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 themUkraine 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. -
Russia has figured out how to stop Ukraine’s most powerful missileThe Flamingo cruise missile is Ukraine's hardest-hitting deep strike munition. But what good is it if Russia usually shoots it down? -
Russia’s oil money is drying up—so its own people are paying for the warFresh figures show the Iran oil windfall came and went—and Russia, further behind than before, is now reaching for pensions and paychecks. -
Crude goes south, gasoline north—Ukraine’s strikes split Russia’s oil tradeUkraine’s refinery campaign has turned one of the world’s largest fuel exporters into an importer—and pushed its crude onto an Arctic shortcut it barely used a year ago. -
Ukraine’s drone strike shut Russia’s biggest LPG plant as fuel rationing returned in 16 regionsThe strike hit the plant’s entry unit 2,200 kilometers behind the front, taking 40% of Russia’s LPG production offline indefinitely. -
Table tennis restored Russia’s flag while Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continuesSweden’s Anton Källberg faces Russia’s Vladimir Sidorenko in Malmö, the first Russian to play under his flag since table tennis dropped its wartime ban. -
Russia squeezes the flanks, then infiltrates the middle. Around Kramatorsk, it can’t do bothRussia knows how to take a Ukrainian city. Around Kramatorsk it does not have the infantry to run the method. -
Ukraine’s cardboard protests look like democracy working. In a war, that’s also the risk.Three weeks on, the protests go on—smaller but daily. Fedorov's old seat is filled by an acting minister, and Fedorov himself won't join the crowds demanding his return. -
Russia is squeezing independent gas stations out of its fuel marketRussia cannot make more fuel. So it’s handing the market to the state-linked majors, and the independent ones are being cut out. -
Russia is assaulting the gateway to Sloviansk. Ukraine’s 81st Brigade is holding it nearly aloneMykolaivka is the biggest obstacle between Russian troops and Sloviansk, one of two big free cities in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast. -
How Russia built a jam-proof drone force—and the Chinese supply chain that could still break itFirst fiber optics, then mesh modems. Both came from China, and the modems are a catalogue item. -
Ukraine’s new drone is a cousin to America’s stealth bombers. It reaches Ufa in three hours.Ukraine's newest strike drone has a unique shape. And that helps it range deep inside Russia, faster, and with a heavier payload.
