$3,032 to kill a soldier on whom Russia spends $65,000: Ukraine’s new system puts a price on every strike
Every $1 Ukraine spends hitting a target inflicts nearly $5 of losses on Russia, according to the Mission Control module.
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Ukraine hit ground-control station for rare drone that fires Russia’s Banderol, missile hitting 650 km/h with 114-kg warhead
Ukraine hit a Shahed storage and launch site, an Orion drone control station, and drone relay points across occupied Crimea and Kherson Oblast.
Russians are buying seaside apartments built on the ruins of the Mariupol homes Russia bombed—DW
Russian occupation authorities ordered some residents out of apartments that survived the siege, sending them to hostels or Mariupol’s outskirts, according to DW sources.
Ukrainian commander says one French howitzer could have changed the war’s early months, if there’d been more of it
The French CAESAR is one of the best self-propelled howitzers in Ukraine's arsenal, accurate, long-range, and mobile, an artillery major says.
This new drone stays aloft for more than day and resists jamming. Ukraine says it can now reach beyond the Urals
The T40 extends Ukraine's homegrown deep-strike reach to distant rear-area targets like factories and airfields.
Ukraine let young men leave to keep teenage boys home. Restaurants now struggle to hire
Work.ua recorded 29% fewer male candidates aged 18 to 22 in hospitality and retail. Across the platform, advertised entry-level pay rose 23 to 24%.
Slovakia resumes BMP-1 hull production after 36 years. The secret customer may be Ukraine
The first two prototype hulls are complete under a late-2025 contract with an unnamed foreign buyer, and Defense Express points to Ukraine as the likely customer.
Ukraine has knocked out seven of Russia’s 10 biggest warehouses as its air defenses fall short, ISW says
The drones keep reaching depots that help supply Moscow's military, faster than Russia can shield them. The latest strike occurred yesterday.
Russia builds and expands at least 10 drone bases. Some could put Warsaw in range – Telegraph
Seven sites were reportedly used in attacks on Kyiv, while the wider buildout adds to Russia’s military infrastructure along NATO’s borders.
Ukraine may have just lost its first Swedish assault boat—to a Russian jet drone
A Russian Geran-4 caught it near the Kinburn Spit on 12 August. Those boats are what put Ukrainian robots on Russian beaches.
Nearly 500 Africans recruited into Russia’s army have died, Ukraine says
Ukraine has identified almost 3,000 recruits from 37 countries, including 35 now held as prisoners of war.
Berlin weighs closing the Russian House for spying, yet a federal ministry just moved in beside it
One arm of the German government reviews shutting the site while another shares a wall with it, exposing a split over how seriously the threat is taken.
Russia’s most-used map app is erasing a Baltic missile site that Western maps still show
The concealment appears only on Yandex, leaving Google, Apple, and Microsoft to reveal exactly what Moscow wanted buried.
NATO no longer deters Russia. A new coalition could
A formal declaration of Ukraine's alliance with European military powers would radically change Russia's calculus
Russia’s strikes across 10 Ukrainian regions kill at least eight in 24 hours
Deaths were reported in at least three regions, with civilian infrastructure damaged.
Russia is hitting Ukraine’s gas facilities 13 times a week—months before winter
Russia has attacked Ukraine’s gas infrastructure 293 times this year—more than in all of 2025—cutting domestic gas production as Ukraine races to fill underground storage ahead of the cold season.
How did Sberbank’s record dividend end up frozen for Western shareholders?
Russia’s largest bank keeps setting profit records and paying record dividends. For its shareholders in the West, that money is frozen in accounts they cannot touch.
Man and woman attacked two children for speaking Ukrainian, Gdańsk consulate says
The consulate says police are searching for the alleged attackers. The siblings escaped serious physical injury but suffered severe emotional stress.
Japan tracks four Russian missile boats passing close to its coast off Hokkaido
The country's navy shadowed the warships with a patrol plane as they sailed back west through a strait between two of its northern islands.
A Russian drone knocked out an evacuation robot, so a Ukrainian commander drove into the kill zone in a pickup to save two wounded soldiers
The robotic evacuation that Ukraine now runs by the thousand failed under fire. A commander with a pickup was the fallback.