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Ukrainian Christmas
Russia’s oil production falls for sixth straight month as Ukrainian drone strikes hit storage and transport
Companies redirected crude to restored Baltic and Black Sea ports, lifting exports from 3.17 to 3.64 million barrels a day, while the extraction tax base underneath kept contracting.
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15 June 2026
- Nearly 42,000 Kyiv residents sheltered in metro during overnight Russian attack, including 3,400 children
- Russian drone strike on Dnipro damages organ music house, college, and injures one
- Russia kills four firefighters in Kharkiv hitting the same spot twice in one night
- Russia kills 5 in Kyiv, injuries 35 in overnight strike with 681 weapons—including six Zircons
- Russia set fire to the Kyiv monastery where Moscow’s founder is buried
- Two birthday calls: Zelenskyy thanked Trump for “every step from Javelins to Patriots.” Putin told Trump to make Zelenskyy come to Moscow
- Russia revived “previously unrecoverable” engines to restore 5,100 Cold War tanks
- Russia has drained 72% of its Cold War tank reserve. Only 851 are left to restore.
- Military techRussia may soon have more tanks than pre-war. It just can’t use them.
- Ukraine’s special forces sabotaged an oil pumping station in Russia with help from a local partisan group, SOF reports
- Money MattersRussia poured 46% of its budget into the military in early 2026 even as revenue fell — ISW
- Ukrainian drones torch Russia’s strategic wartime fuel reserves in Rybinsk and explosives-linked chemical plant in Tula Oblast
- UK forces board the Russian shadow-fleet’s oil tanker in the English Channel for the first time
- Ukraine denies biolab claims as Gabbard map mislocates Kyiv and invents city “Cherniv”
- Swedish fighters intercept Russian Su-24 and Su-34 over Baltic Sea
- Trump and Zelenskyy to attend same G7 working session, may meet on sidelines
- Ukrainian drones hit Dzhankoi as strike unit declares hunt on Russian Crimea logistics
- Ukraine to supply NATO ally Latvia with strike drones, ground robots, naval systems
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1570: Ukraine overhauls its army — fixed contracts, new pay, more foreigners
- Russia’s youngest war dead include more than 200 18-year-old soldiers, new data shows
- Storm Shadow maker MBDA and Ukrainian Armor launch partnership to develop deep strike and anti-drone systems
- EU opens first accession talks cluster for Ukraine and Moldova after years of delays and vetoes
- Ukraine launches major army reform: fixed contracts, revamped pay structure, and broader access for foreigners
Industry focus
Ukraine showed the world its drone launcher. Russia found it four days later.
AI-targeted drones need training images to find their targets. Ukraine just gave Russia one.
Ukrainian strawberry prices drop 21%—but carrots and potatoes climb
Cheaper berries, costlier carrots—Ukraine’s wartime produce market moves in different directions in the same week.
Ukraine plays Russia today for a French Open final. The Russian stays mum on war; the Ukrainian doesn’t
"They have phones. They have Instagram." Five weeks after Madrid, Kostyuk and Andreeva meet again — with overnight casualty counts between them.
Russia wants €47 million from the company arming the country it invaded
The contract Moscow wants money over built the training center where Putin's troops rehearsed for Ukraine.
Sport is letting Russia back in. This Ukrainian tennis player says no.
Tennis cracked the door open. Other federations are quietly walking through.
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.
Hungary unblocks $7.7 billion in EU arms payments after dropping two-year veto on Ukraine aid
Prime Minister Péter Magyar's cabinet reversed a Viktor Orbán-era block, with the immediate sum a first tranche of more than €40 billion in queued claims.
Russia is losing so many trucks it’s now eyeing Cold War scrap
How many more trucks can the Russians lose along Ukraine's highways before they must drag old trucks from long-term storage?
Ukraine’s vape market is 93% illegal. The trail leads to a sanctioned Russian oligarch.
Smuggled from Poland and barely taxed, the shadow trade drains a country at war—and the network behind it ties back to Oleg Boyko.
Next five years: Rosatom’s “strategic window” to lock in European dependence
This is part two of a series of three articles exploring Rosatom, its role in the war in Ukraine, and Moscow’s international influence.
Russia’s monthly land grab in Ukraine has collapsed from hundreds of km² to 14, OSINT data show
As Ukraine paired a battlefield network linking every drone and sensor with strikes deep behind Russian lines, DeepState's monthly tally for May is the smallest in years of Russia's grinding offensive.
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.
Starobilsk incident highlights Ukrainian concerns over civilian risk in deep strikes and limits of wartime verification in occupied areas
Ukraine said it struck a “Rubicon” command position in occupied Starobilsk, while Russian occupation authorities claimed a dormitory was hit and reported casualties.
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
Ukraine’s attack on Moscow: Show of force? Yes. Path of revenge? Not quite.
Moscow's air defense "never coped under the pressure of regular UAVs."
