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Russia’s top bankers break taboo, admit war is hurting the economy
Two of Russia's most influential economic officials have publicly acknowledged the mounting costs of the war in Ukraine, as Kyiv's strikes on oil infrastructure and record military spending expose growing cracks in the Kremlin's wartime economy
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04 July 2026
- Russia’s drone barrages slowed in June. Its bombers are worn out — but its factories are retooling for something worse
- Ukraine is ten days into campaign to pressure Moscow toward peace: Russia’s Baltic oil gateway took hit overnight
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1591: Russia’s rear is “no longer peaceful” as Ukraine’s drones reach ever deeper into its war machine
- Mini air defense against FPVs and the “Peace Duck” AI interceptor: Ukraine unveils 20-system counter-drone arsenal
- Poland to scrap the MiG-29 fighter jets it was supposed to hand Ukraine amid growing tensions between the allies
- Crimea occupation officials pack up as some reportedly flee to Russia on state fuel as Ukrainian strikes intensify, ATESH claims
- Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026Russia lost ground for a second straight month in June. CSIS says it has lost the initiative too
- Russia’s war keeps killing dolphins: Five more dead dolphins wash up in Odesa Oblast park – 63 since late May
- Georgia’s only oil refinery to stop processing Russian crude from August, company says
- “No longer a peaceful rear”: Ukraine reports 1,150% increase in deep strikes as drones continue hitting Russia’s war machine far from the front lines
- Sweden adopts Ukrainian place names, abandoning Russian-derived spellings: “We counter Russian attempts to erase Ukrainian culture”
- Ukraine hits at least seven Russian warplanes in second strike on Crimea’s Saky airbase this week, SBU says
- Russian strikes kill 19 civilians across Ukraine, including toddler in Sumy Oblast
- Money MattersThe energy superpower now rations fuel by QR code lottery
- Ukraine’s eastern kill zone is 25 km deep — corps commander expects 30 by year’s end
- Ukraine clears its first-ever export of finished combat drones — and they went to the US
- Ukrainians think their own security service is calling—it’s Russia recruiting saboteurs
- Italy joins Bulgaria in resisting EU sanctions on Patriarch Kirill
- Fires hit Crimea power substations again overnight, one for the second time in a week
- Belgorod loses power and water after Ukrainian strike on gas-turbine plant, one killed
- History of UkraineRussia banned the scholars documenting Stalin’s starvation of Ukraine. They put their course out anyway—as Moscow repeats the famine.
- Ukraine wants the Ankara summit to name it a NATO security contributor—not just an aid recipient
- Kyiv death toll climbs to 30 as rescuers dig for three still buried under a nine-story block
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1591: Russia’s rear is “no longer peaceful” as Ukraine’s drones reach ever deeper into its war machine
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1590: Russia’s largest attack on Kyiv in months kills 25 — a record 52,500 shelter underground
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1589: Ukraine strikes Russia’s Su-30 hangars
Industry focus
NATO’s former second-in-command says what the alliance won’t: only Russia’s defeat ends the war
He 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 giants
Heavy warhorse of Ukrainian battlefields
Defense expert: Ukraine’s interceptor shortage has no quick fix
Only 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 train
Victoria 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 alive
Light, enduring mesh network enables complex operations in difficult environments
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.
Recovery conference for Ukraine opens in Poland as Warsaw-Kyiv ties hit bottom
Both 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 it
Russia'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 slipping
The 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 third
The 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’t
The $4 billion buys Patriot interceptors now — but Ukraine's home-grown Freya, five times cheaper, left Brussels with a partnership and no cash.
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.
Belarus’s exiled opposition hands Ukraine a 30-page file on how Minsk is being readied for war
The dossier reached Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha's desk and lays out eight ways the regime has rebuilt the country into a launch platform for Russia, the report states.
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
Russian forces depend on Crimea. Ukraine is turning it into an island.
“Crimea is the center of gravity of this war for the Russians”
