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Rebuilding Ukraine while it burns — calling it progress: what Ukraine Recovery Conference 2026 actually deliveredThe Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC) in Gdańsk closed with 160 agreements worth more than €10 billion, a $3.4 billion package with the World Bank, the launch of the European Flagship Fund for Ukraine’s Reconstruction, and a new Ukraine Transport Support Fund. -
Russia thought occupied Crimea was its fortress. Ukrainian forces say they’ve been pulling the walls down for years nowThe latest piece: a rail bridge near İçki that fed troops across occupied Crimea. -
Zelenskyy: In Kyiv, where Lenin fell, Mazepa will stand—a Cossack hetman Russia still cursesA bust of Ivan Mazepa went up at Kyiv's main monastery, and the president wants a full monument on the boulevard where a Soviet statue came down in 2013. -
Russians keep raising “Potemkin flags” in Lyman. They’re no closer to capturing it.Scattered reports of Russian flags flying over Lyman don't indicate new Russian positions in the front-line city. Lyman holds. -
NATO’s former second-in-command says what the alliance won’t: only Russia’s defeat ends the warHe warned about Russia a decade ago. Now he's inside Ukraine's command—still pushing for the strategy NATO won't write. -
This Ukrainian UGV, beloved by Ukrainian intel, is now winning over NATO countries and global defense giantsHeavy warhorse of Ukrainian battlefields -
Defense expert: Ukraine’s interceptor shortage has no quick fixOnly a handful of countries can build ballistic-missile interceptors, and all are short. Defense expert Marc DeVore explains why money can't fix Ukraine's interceptor shortage fast — and where the real leverage lies. -
I came to be bored, then a Ukrainian poet’s reading hit me like a freight trainVictoria Day in Lviv marks the close of the fellowship named for writer Victoria Amelina. A skeptic’s account of an evening about home. -
In the world’s most jammed battlefield, a Kyiv company keeps the signal aliveLight, enduring mesh network enables complex operations in difficult environments -
Russia is bolting World War II-style bridges onto armored tractors. They’re slow—and Ukraine’s drones are fastEvery bridge over the Vovcha is gone, so Russian crews drive improvised spans into the river and bail out—leaving the vehicles behind as makeshift bridges. The drones find them anyway. -
Recovery conference for Ukraine opens in Poland as Warsaw-Kyiv ties hit bottomBoth presidents stayed away from Gdańsk—and the corridors talked less about rebuilding Ukraine than about whether Kyiv and Warsaw can rebuild their own partnership. -
After eight months, Kostiantynivka is falling. Why some Ukrainian commanders would rather fight the open fields behind itRussia's first strategic win of the year is a ruined city—and Ukraine's drone-centric defense may not miss it the way it once would have. -
Ukraine’s banks got too profitable to sell—so the deadline keeps slippingThe central bank sees a “good chance” of two sales by December. The price the market will pay says otherwise. -
Russia can’t blockade Ukraine’s grain ports, so it bombs them—exports could drop a thirdThe heaviest strikes are expected during the July harvest. -
Towards Clearer Skies? What Ukraine gets out of the most recent Ramstein meeting—and what it doesn’tThe $4 billion buys Patriot interceptors now — but Ukraine's home-grown Freya, five times cheaper, left Brussels with a partnership and no cash. -
As Russian air defense dwindles, Ukrainian glide bombs join the fray. But juicy targets are receding.Ukraine's air interdiction campaign has a new toy for busting reinforced targets without relying on the West -
Ukraine binds a quarter of its economy to EU procurement rules—and unlocks $3.4 billionReform clears a first-cluster accession requirement as Hungary stalls the talks. -
Occupied Crimea’s “energy independence” runs on gas Ukraine can cutA decade of spending bought dependency dressed as autonomy. -
Poland and Ukraine’s memory war has spilled into the streets. Its consequences might be disastrous.A wartime decree, a revoked medal, and a teenager beaten on a Warsaw bridge — why the unsettled past is reopening at the worst possible moment for both nations. -
For three years, Russia glide-bombed Ukraine in escorted pairs. Now Ukraine is glide-bombing Russia the same way.High-flying escorts are protecting Ukraine's glide bombers from Russian jets. It's a familiar tactic.
