Russia set a record for losses in October, and Ukraine took back more land than it lost
Ukraine’s president tied the two counts together and said Russia could stop the bleeding by choosing a ceasefire and diplomacy.
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A hobby computer, a cheap airframe, and a Russian jet drone: how Zirka’s upgrade scored its kill
The interceptor’s vision software detects the target, tracks it, and guides the drone home, leaving its crew mostly to manage the closing speed.
On Kramatorsk’s Peace Square, a Russian airstrike takes down the building that outlasted Russia’s 2014 occupation
The city government building saw the city seized by Russia in 2014 and freed again, and now a Russian airstrike has destroyed it as the front draws closer.
Russia is fighting for a border village near Kharkiv that leads it nowhere. What it is after is fewer Ukrainian troops in Donbas
Pressure on the Kharkiv and Sumy borders has moved the line only a few kilometers, but Ukrainian commanders say it aims to tie down Ukrainian forces in the north while Russia attacks in Donetsk Oblast.
Three Russian refineries hit since Friday handle roughly 10% of Russia’s refining and over 10% of its diesel
Kstovo, Novokuibyshevsk, and Ufa together process tens of millions of tons of crude a year, and the newest fire is at the biggest of the three.
Most Ukrainian brigades are short of troops. One that filled its ranks is helping push Russia back in Operation Vivaldi.
That brigade is the 125th Heavy Mechanized, a rare exception in an army where almost every unit fights short-handed, and its turnaround is one reason Operation Vivaldi worked.
Ukraine’s military leadership shake-up: two new Donbas and Center commands, fewer reports — but gaps remain, commander says
Ukraine’s army was run from the top in “manual mode.” Its new chief is starting to share that power, a front-line officer says.
Fewer jams, simpler sights: Ukrainian marines show off Turkiye’s upgraded RDS40 40mm grenade launcher
The 42nd Separate Marine Brigade released video of its crews preparing and firing the RDS40-AGL.
“European countries need to learn”: Ukrainian defense-tech CEO warns Europe against costly defense mistakes
The cost of countering an air threat must match the cost of the threat.
A new Ukrainian heavy brigade is getting whatever tanks are left over. Most of the army is short of armor and troops, too
And this is arguably the main driver of Ukraine's robotics and drone strategy
Ukraine brings people and their pets out of occupied Oleshky under longest ceasefire since 2022, from 94-year-old to one-year-old
For years, civilians in Russian-occupied Oleshky lived under shelling and drones, cut off from food and water. Ukraine has now evacuated them under the longest ceasefire since 2022, in a mission its ombudsman says was made possible by US First Lady Melania Trump.
Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Drapatyi launches reform of draft medical boards to stop sending sick to war and root out corruption
The 28 October order brings close monitoring of rulings, scrutiny of fit-then-unfit cases and regular training for board members.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1710: Azov says its small UAVs have hit more than 100 Russian trains in occupied Donbas
Ukraine has also unveiled Zakon, a national typeface meant to write Russian type out of state documents.
Drones have not killed tank: Ukrainian analyst says Operation Vivaldi shows NATO how to make armor work again
NATO war games convinced some that drones have made the tank obsolete, but Ukraine’s Operation Vivaldi shows armor still works.
US delays the Patriot missiles Ukraine needs against ballistic strikes but keeps sending older PAC-2s
Zelenskyy says Russia launched 100+ ballistic missiles at Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast in two weeks. Kyiv awaits decisions on Patriot interceptors.
“We have been killed”: Novaya Gazeta, the last major independent newsroom still working from inside Russia, closes after losing its Moscow office and its reader donations in the same week
The paper will shut down its servers on 9 November, and the Anna Politkovskaya museum in its offices will close with it.
“We need asymmetric effect,” Defense Minister Khmara says, as Ukraine funds its own missiles and radars to stop burning costly interceptors on cheap Russia’s drones
Also, Kyiv continues seeking solutions against Russian KABs.
Azov says it struck more than 100 Russian trains in occupied Donbas in four months, in part thanks to donations
The Ukrainian military struck large diesel locomotives using small UAVs.
“We were told brigade couldn’t be saved”: Ukraine’s 125th grew its manning 430% and won back 1,500 absent soldiers in one year
Two pickups and a minibus: that was a whole Ukrainian brigade’s fleet a year ago.