Ukraine’s premier listed a record year to the parliament that dismissed her
No one in Kyiv has said why. Her own farewell leaves out the name that would explain it.
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Hungary swapped its pro-Russian prime minister. Yet it is still slowing Ukraine’s path to the EU.
Hungary has allowed two stages of Ukraine’s EU talks to open while holding up the other four. Péter Magyar is no Viktor Orbán, but years of anti-Ukraine politics might still make blocking Kyiv safer than helping it.
The US Army’s former commander in Europe is “withholding applause” for Trump’s Patriot pledge—and expects no interceptors before winter.
Ben Hodges is pretty certain Ukraine will build no Patriot interceptors for three to six months. Until then, Ukraine will remain dependent on allied supplies—amid a global interceptor shortage.
Ukraine is building a flight school under fire—and the simulator delivery shows how fast
Scarce jets, contested skies, no fixed base that can stay hidden. Ukraine's answer: train pilots on Ukrainian soil, in equipment that moves.
A $50 computer just flew Russia’s newest jet drone into a Ukrainian grain ship—and jamming couldn’t stop it
Russia's fast, highly autonomous Geran-4 one-way attack drone is the weapon of choice for strikes on Ukrainian grain ships.
Russia has the oil. It no longer has the gasoline—so Russians are learning to make their own
Ukraine’s drone campaign has cut Russian refining to its lowest level since March 2005—and the diesel Russia can no longer sell is driving world fuel prices to multiyear highs.
Hungary votes to remove Orbán-loyal president as Magyar dismantles Fidesz system
The constitutional amendment targets Tamás Sulyok and caps lawmakers’ tenure at 12 years. Magyar’s break with Orbán remains sharper at home than on Ukraine.
Two months in office, three blows to Ukraine: Bulgaria’s premier stacks Coalition of the Willing exit on aid freeze and sanctions blocks
Since May, Radev has stopped state military aid, defended two prominent Russians from EU blacklists, and now removed Bulgaria from the group backing Kyiv against Russian aggression.
Ukraine’s closest ally refuses to lift its grain embargo on Ukraine
The new EU-Ukraine trade agreement should erase all unilateral restrictions from November, yet Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary hold on to their own bans.
Europe’s answer to the Patriot costs $700,000 a shot—and no foreign government can switch it off
Ten nations joined the coalition. Ukraine has the missile. Germany has the seeker Ukraine still needs to sign for. Nobody has an intercept yet — and the clock says 12 months
116 Russian ships in nine days: One big export tanker needs 12–15 small ones to fill it. Ukraine is burning the small ones
Three drone units carried out the latest overnight strikes under operation MoLoChKa, whose name reads like Ukrainian slang for dairy products.
Russia’s ex-space chief calls for “systematic zeroing out” of the Starlink satellite constellation
Senator Dmitry Rogozin claims cutting Ukraine off from SpaceX's network would end the war within two to three weeks — and that Russia knows several ways to do it.
Ukraine votes to dismiss its PM. She hasn’t accepted the exit job offered
Three sources say the outgoing premier is not considering the Washington posting used to justify her removal.
Russia stalled bankruptcy reform for six years—then passed it in two days
Russian companies owe more than the country produces in a year, and a reform frozen since 2020 was cleared by parliament in two days.
A plant making 150 products from gasoline to polyethylene caught fire 1,300 km from the war zone—Ukraine hits two refineries overnight
Fires broke out at the Afipsky refinery's tank farm area, the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat complex, and, likely, the Rosneft-Opt depot next door, monitoring channels and Astra report.
Olenivka officials and Taganrog jail land on EU sanctions list for abuse of Ukrainian prisoners
Brussels adopted the listings under two human-rights regimes, targeting the command chains of detention facilities in occupied Ukraine and inside Russia.
“Incredible legacy for him”: Days after Graham’s death, Trump says he’s ready to move on his Russia sanctions bill
Trump supports the sanctions package the late Senator Lindsey Graham spent two years trying to pass. The Senate needs a new lead sponsor.
Ukraine put armed robot on Russian-held ground. Naval drone was landing craft
Ukraine's 123rd Brigade delivered a ground robot to the Russian-held Kinburn Spit aboard an unmanned surface vessel and landed it to fight.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1601: Ukraine’s Crimea blockade nears 100 ships
Ukraine out-produces NATO on drones as Europe eyes a wider alliance.
Ukraine’s Supreme Court refused to lift Zelenskyy’s sanctions on opposition leader
The Supreme Court rejected Poroshenko's challenge to sanctions that freeze his assets and strip his state awards. He says the judges were pressured.