Exclusives
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Ukraine's Gen Z protested for their anti-corruption agencies last year. Now they're protesting for one man. A leaderless crowd is reading the war more clearly than the command class that dismisses them—and letting one blogger tell them what it means. |
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Russia's weirdest armored vehicle was built to fight infantry. The infantry stopped coming. The Russians are building and restoring thousands of replacement tanks and fighting vehicles. But the unique BMP-T is fading away. |
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In Kherson, the children still train under the drones. Russia has destroyed 221 of the city's sports venues. Its boxers, rowers, and chess players train in the basements beneath them—and still come home with medals. |
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Individuals now drive nearly half of Ukraine's bankruptcy cases. A "second chance" system Kyiv built for EU accession is reaching ordinary people—while Russia rewrites its own bankruptcy law to let the Kremlin choose who survives. |
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An EU candidate's port received 145 ships from occupied Ukraine in six months. As Tbilisi tilts toward Moscow, a would-be EU member is becoming a gateway for looted grain and goods the EU has sanctioned. |
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Ukraine's AI drones hammer Russian supply lines. Russia's $10,000 drone just got the same kit. Russia built the Gerbera to be shot down instead of a Shahed. For $10,000, it now carries the Shahed's targeting kit. |
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Europe deepens trade with India while Western parts keep reaching Russia's weapons. Brussels is drafting its largest-ever corporate blacklist over the war—and expanding trade with the country those parts pass through. |
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Russia can rebuild Wildberries warehouses more easily than it can replace warehouse workers. The warehouses are replaceable—but at a record 2.1% unemployment, the spooked workers who staff them are not. |
Military
Ukraine's drone force hit 53,755 Russian targets in July. Only 0.5% were deep strikes everyone talks about. Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces struck 53,755 targets in July, with 95% of strikes in the tactical zone near the front, Commander Madiar says.
Russia lost 42,860 men in July, its worst month this year. That's up from 31,700 in January. Russian forces lost 42,860 troops in July 2026, the highest monthly toll of the year, bringing seven-month losses to 238,650, Ukraine's General Staff says.
Russia stole Ukrainian shipyard in 2014 and built its Sargan patrol boats there. Ukraine just destroyed one of them. Ukraine's HUR hit three high-value Russian targets in one night, including a Sargan patrol boat, a design Russia seized from a Ukraine.
More than 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers went AWOL. Ukraine's answer isn't punishment but choice of where to serve. Ukraine expanded its simplified return program for soldiers who went AWOL.
Ukraine sinks Russian ship and hits three refineries processing millions of tons a year, same night. Kyiv continues to dismantle Russia's tools of war against Ukraine.
Humanitarian and social impact
"They hit what was in parking lot": Russian drone operator adapted strike on Ukraine's largest online retailer's warehouse in real time. A Russian jet-powered Shahed struck a Rozetka warehouse where 270 people were working on 1 August, killing employee Volodymyr Melnychenko and hospitalizing seven.
Russia struck same Kyiv building twice in one night. Reason why is tactic Ukraine has seen before. Russia struck Kyiv's Kyivmedspetstrans medical-transport depot twice during its 1 August barrage, destroying five ambulances and damaging 20 more.
"No respect any international norms, including Vienna Convention": Russia hits embassy in Kyiv as 27 ballistic missiles strike Ukrainian capital. A Russian barrage of 35 missiles and 185 drones killed at least nine people in Kyiv.
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