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18 June 2026
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1575: Ukraine destroys 250 Russian artillery systems in two nights
- Russia plans to open eight new cultural centers in Africa to court a loyal generation, HUR says
- “It is we who must thank you,” Dutch defense minister told Ukraine when announcing $590 million in aid for Kyiv
- Money MattersRussia’s biggest oil company stopped selling gasoline in canisters nationwide after Ukraine’s strikes. It blames “seasonal demand”
- Ukrainian marines bring frontline experience to NATO’s Sea Breeze 26.1
- France is putting $22 million into Ukrainian defense tech. Deal comes with battlefield testing
- Ukraine found Russian artillery’s weak spot and destroyed 250 systems in two nights
- Defense minister says Ukraine’s drones are turning Crimea into an island
- Ukraine strikes sanctioned shadow fleet tanker FINA A in the Black Sea
- Storm Shadow maker MBDA to develop Neptune-2 cruise missile with Ukraine’s Luch
- Russia likely has one Oreshnik missile and is struggling to build more
- Ukraine loses two pilots in Su-24M crash in Khmelnytskyi Oblast
- Storm Shadow maker MBDA to help develop new Neptune cruise missile with Ukraine
- ISW: Zelenskyy keeps offering to meet Putin, the Kremlin keeps refusing
- Ukraine develops blackout missile that plunges onto Russian grids from high-altitude balloons
- Latvia returns 19 sets of historical Ukrainian documents found in its archives
- Ukraine and Albania sign road transport deal, opening freight “transport visa-free”
- Russian strikes kill four across Ukraine, hit children’s riding school in Sumy
- Ukraine just showed world its first homegrown glide bomb in Paris
- Russia’s assembly line for Azov sentences gives two Ukrainian POWs 17 and 20 years in jail for defending Mariupol
- G7 leaders agree to boost Ukraine’s air defense, weigh licensing missile production
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1574: Ukraine and Sweden signed deal at Paris defense expo to mass-produce MAUL combat robot
- Russia started war with 41 Tu-22M3 irreplaceable bombers. It may have nine left
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1575: Ukraine destroys 250 Russian artillery systems in two nights
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1574: Ukraine and Sweden signed deal at Paris defense expo to mass-produce MAUL combat robot
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1573: Russia strikes Kyiv’s ancient monastery in 681-weapon assault
Industry focus
Russia tells its regions to raise taxes on residents and businesses to plug a record budget hole
The combined regional gap grew fivefold from 2024 and almost eightfold from 2023, with the tax service now pressing governors to find more revenue.
Russians pulled 30-year record of cash from banks in May. Central Bank now tracks monthly cash limits, can freeze “suspicious” withdrawals
Analyst cites geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty, internet outages disrupting online banking, and central bank rate cuts as driving the cash flight.
Ukraine honors Euromaidan Press war correspondent Zarina Zabrisky with the Order of Merit
Recognition for years of Kherson dispatches and the documentary
Ukraine’s drones got bigger warheads. A Russian corvette in the Baltic just found out.
The Fire Point FP-1 that struck Boikiy at Kronstadt on 3 June crossed 1,100 km to get there — and arrived with a heavier warhead than the model that started Ukraine's deep-strike campaign.
“It was never formulated as Ukraine winning”—NATO’s ex-military chief on the missing strategy
It was also not formulated, "We're doing this so that Russia can lose this war." So the formulation became, "We're going to support Ukraine for as long as it takes," Admiral Bauer tells EP
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.
Russia more than doubles production of converted SAMs to make ballistic missile strikes even harder to defend
Missiles add few qualitative improvements but do add mass to Russia's terror attacks
Russia keeps four field armies fed through three southern towns. Ukraine’s drones just arrived.
A 1 June drone strike near Chernihivka hit the layer the Russians used to assume was out of reach.
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.
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.
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.
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
Not just nuclear power: how Rosatom fuels Russia’s war machine
This is part one of a series of three articles exploring Rosatom, its role in the war in Ukraine, and Moscow’s international influence.
