This is the fancy new F-16 Ukraine could get. It’s not what its pilots need most.
Ukraine could buy newly built F-16 Block 70/72s from U.S. firm Lockheed Martin. But that's not the greatest need.
Starlink helped Ukraine pull off Operation Vivaldi. Now Starlink could help Russia take the ground back
The operation retook 277 square kilometers north of Lyman. The drones that now hold that line lose their Starshield link above about 160 km/h.
Ukraine’s answer to Russia’s jet Shaheds: a jet drone named Bars, built to strike Russia and now turned around to hunt them
Zelenskyy says it has the best hit rate of any Ukrainian interceptor against the jet drones, about 30%, but the small jet engines it needs may be in short supply.
Belgium’s 10 F-16s bring Ukraine’s promised fleet to about 100 jets. Fewer than 40 are flying, as Russia’s jet drones run them ragged
The rest arrive in batches through 2029, and every sortie against Russia's jet drones brings the jets already in Ukraine closer to long inspections abroad.
Russia still parks its best bombers in the open. Ukraine has spent a year knocking out the air defenses that were supposed to protect them
The Russian air force parked six Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bombers out in the open at a base within reach of Ukraine's Neptune cruise missiles. Now at least four are wreckage.
Russia is losing the Black Sea grain war it started. Its answer is to sink civilian ships off Romania and Bulgaria
The burning ships off Romania and Bulgaria are the latest round of a contest Ukraine opened this summer, when it began choking Russia’s own Black Sea exports
Russia is back at Dobropillia a year after it failed there. Now it’s the southern jaw of a pincer on Donbas’s last big free cities
This time Russia brought another army, and Dobropillia’s defenders have until the leaves fall to stop it.
Ukraine sent a spiked tank and a Bradley into Russian drone fire. The spikes held, and Ukraine’s own drones got them home
Armored vehicles aren't dead on arrival anymore on the drone-patrolled battlefield. Friendly drones can escort them to the fight.
Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps took the lessons of the failed 2023 counteroffensive into Operation Vivaldi. It fought small, and won.
Five months in, it has erased 18 months of Russian advances toward Sloviansk.
“Supplying Crimea is turning into a nightmare”: Ukrainian drones hit Russian trucks 770 times in September, and winter will make it worse, analyst says
That's the most of any month this year, up from 630 in August, even though Russian supply trucks now travel in convoys with their own air defense.
Armored assaults aren’t dead. Robots got the credit, but it was Ukrainian infantry in armored trucks that reversed a year of Russian gains near Lyman
Robots cleared the mines and blew up the bunkers, but soldiers still had to ride in and hold the ground.
Turkey’s Korkut guns now shoot down Russian drones over Ukraine. Almost half of the jet-powered Shaheds still get through
Russia launched about as many of the fast ones as slow ones in September, by one analyst's count, and its winter assault on the power grid is still ahead.
Ukraine fired its first FP-7 ballistic missile in combat. Its maker says next version will do what Ukraine needed since 2022
Zelensky announced the launch on 1 October without naming the target, and wrote that production comes next.
Ukraine keeps finding ways to replace its MiG-29s. It’s running out of MiG-29s to find
The latest loss came Thursday, when Capt. Marat Mambetov, 25, ejected after a Russian missile hit his jet on a strike mission but did not survive.