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More Ukrainian drones are hitting Russian supply lines. The hardened targets are fine.
Ukraine is extending its drone strikes into Russia's vulnerable logistical zone. But many drones lack hitting power.
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30 April 2026
- SBU drones hit Lukoil’s Perm refinery — 1,500 km from Ukraine
- Up seven in a year, up 50 since 2022. Ukraine climbs RSF press freedom rankings as global score hits 25-year low
- KIIS poll: Ukrainian trust in US security guarantees falls from 39% to 27% in three months
- Euromaidan Press is fighting a two-front war for Ukraine’s truth. And we need you on both
- US allocates $100 million to repair Chornobyl confinement damaged in Russian drone strike – Zelenskyy
- Germany approves 2027 budget with $13.5 billion for Ukraine
- Russia hits Odesa in two overnight waves — kindergarten, high-rises, hotel damaged; 20 injured
- Pentagon just unlocked $400 million in Ukraine aid that had been “collecting dust” after McConnell’s WP column
- 90% of Russian passenger traffic still flies on Boeing and Airbus, while Russia promotes its MS-21 as “Boeing killer”
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1526: Ukraine’s drone campaign reached major oil pipeline hub near Perm
- Money MattersEU’s new carbon tariff could cost Ukraine $6 billion in GDP and tens of thousands of industrial jobs through 2030
- Ukraine needs to build its own high-speed Mesh tech, as China is Russia’s supplier, and Western modems are too expensive
- Ukraine should not advertise its new ballistic missiles until factories can mass-produce them, ex-security officer says
- InternationalRussia’s “Russo-Balt” just unveiled almost-identical Tesla Cybertruck clone
- Sea drones hit Russian shadow fleet tanker as it waited for an at-sea oil rendezvous off Russia’s Black Sea coast
- Ukrainian drones hit Russia’s Mi-28 gunship and Mi-17 transport chopper 150+ km from the frontline
- Russia hits two hospitals, kills one woman overnight in strikes on Ukrainian cities
- OpinionKyiv Security Forum agreed Russia’s threat is existential. It did not discuss how to defeat Moscow.
- “Oil rain” reported in Perm after Ukrainian drones set Transneft pumping station ablaze 1,500 km from the war zone
- Russia is trying to block Ukraine’s defense deals with Gulf, and just added 8,000 troops to Africa
- Ukraine opens international register of damage for Russian aggression, as reconstruction needs hit at $587.7 billion
- AnalysisAs Western unity cracks, Ukraine fights to keep Russia sanctions alive
- Money Matters“Russia has never seen this”: Russia’s central bank chief admits a 2.5 million worker deficit
Scan, switch, sanction—the app turning Western shoppers into Russia’s exit enforcers
About 2,300 large Western companies still pay taxes in Russia. State sanctions won’t touch most of them—going after every individual corporate holdout isn’t politically feasible, and, as Felix Hosse puts it bluntly, it’s “not politically wanted.” So an international startup team—with its CEO working from Kyiv—built an app to do what…
EU just held its first summit without Orbán, and discovered his obstruction was covering deeper divisions
Without him in the room, diplomats acknowledged behind closed doors that Orbán had long absorbed the blame for conflicts that were never really his alone.
A low-tech transport plane firing high-tech interceptor drones is Ukraine’s newest Shahed-hunter
One in three Russian aerial targets over Ukraine is now destroyed by an interceptor drone that costs less than a used car. This week, Ukraine added a new launch platform to that fleet: a 1969 Antonov An-28 transport plane.
Ukraine’s An-28 transport just shot down a Shahed with a drone—on camera
Modern problems require modern solutions. If shooting down cheap Russian Shaheds with air-to-air missiles from jets is not cost-effective, why not replace MiGs and F-16s with An-28 turboprop transport planes and missiles with interceptor drones? Ukrainian interceptor producer SkyFall posted an Instagram video showing a rare glimpse of how…
Save all living things: Europe’s 20th sanctions package still spares Russia’s nuclear war machine
The EU has sanctioned almost everything Moscow touches—except the one company running an occupied nuclear plant and building parts for Russian missiles.
Russia’s last “Ukraine peace deal” led to Europe’s biggest war since WWII. Here’s why this one could be worse.
Moscow isn’t just negotiating—it’s setting the stage. Behind closed doors, familiar tactics are at play, and the consequences could reshape Europe’s future once again.
Kremlin builds “hotbed of tension” narrative against Lithuania — ISW warns of groundwork for Baltic aggression
ISW reports Moscow is using accusations against Lithuania and NATO over Kaliningrad Oblast to build justifications for potential future military action against the Baltic states.
Russia spent 20 years hardening Ukraine by accident. Europe won’t get that gift.
Two decades of hybrid pressure built the Ukraine that stopped Russian tanks in 2022. Moscow has drawn the lesson. NATO's eastern flank should assume it has months, not decades.
Critics said Ukraine was losing the mid-range drone war. Russia’s burning trucks disagree.
More Ukrainian drones are ranging across the Russian logistical zone to strike trucks and starve front-line regiments' of vital supplies.
Senate Democrats challenge Russian oil waiver—Moscow revenues hit two-year high
A Delaware senator walked the Treasury Secretary through the loop. The March oil numbers closed it.
Slovakia’s Fico will skip Moscow’s parade but still lay flowers in the Kremlin
The EU's last openly pro-Russian leader reframes his 9 May visit as a "pilgrimage for peace." The flowers at the Kremlin wall stay on the schedule.
Why is Ukraine losing ground? Mobilization crisis and command failures exposed
Ukraine's military problems can no longer be ignored as mobilization failures and systemic issues lead to mounting territorial losses
Evergreens
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.
“We will use all available methods” — Shoigu threatened Moldova over Transnistria. Available methods are limited: Ukraine is in the way
He invoked the Donbas playbook, warned of intervention to protect 220,000 Russian passport holders, and accused Chișinău of "blockade."
A realistic victory strategy for Ukraine
In a war where offensive operations are equally difficult on both sides, not losing is already winning in the next year and a half
Analysis
Magyar’s victory: what it unlocks for Ukraine—and where it stops short
Hungary's new prime minister can now rewrite the constitution. He's made clear he won't rewrite everything.
