Blowing up a key dam, the Russians marched into Kostiantynivka. But not for long.
Unable to capture Kostiantynivka with a direct assault, the Russians are trying to drown and strangle the city's garrison.
Ukrainian drones now hammer Russia’s last Black Sea Fleet refuge from the sky—and this time, there’s no escape
Hundreds of Ukrainian drones keep Russia's Black Sea Fleet bottled up in its last safe port, Novorossiysk in southern Russia.
Russian soldier proudly shows off his tank’s drone defense: tubes of decorative plant clay
Not all Russian anti-drone improvisations actually work. For instance, tubes full of clay. They're 'useless,' one expert claimed.
Ignoring the counteroffensive to its north, a Russian field army grinds toward Verkhnia Tersa
Despite the chaos all around it, the Russian 5th Combined Arms Army is determined to capture a key Ukrainian fortification in the southeast.
Ukraine’s Mirage 2000 fighters finally go on the offensive
Ukraine's speedy ex-French fighters have been on the defensive for an entire year. That may be changing. But are there enough bombs?
The Russians massed 100,000 troops to take the last free cities in Donbas. One hill bars the way
Whether Hill 207 holds could decide Russia's planned offensive on the last strongholds of free Donbas
Everyone doubted Ukraine’s Flamingo missile. It just blew a hole in a major Russian missile factory
The Flamingo cruise missile was supposed to intensify Ukraine's deep strikes on Russian industry. Months late, it may finally be happening.
Ukraine’s southeastern counteroffensive is now recapturing villages Russia once firmly held
Penetrating the Russian line, Ukrainian assault troopers liberated a village that was once under firm Russian control.
Russia wants 428 tanks a year by 2028. Its “second factory” is taking them apart instead.
There are reasons to believe Russia doesn't have two factories producing new tanks. It has just one.
Russia rushed reinforcements to its fracturing southeast. They rode in unarmored and in broad daylight
Two weeks after Russian communications collapsed, Ukrainian troops are still counterattacking—and inflicting heavy losses on the Russians.
A Ukrainian gun ‘bot saw a Russian soldier in the dark. He couldn’t see it back.
In a nighttime clash with a lonely Russian trooper, a gun-armed Ukrainian ground robot had the upper hand
Kyiv robbed Pokrovsk to save Zaporizhzhia. The gamble is paying off
When Ukrainian forces fell back a short distance north of Pokrovsk recently, it was the result of a deliberate choice in Kyiv: to prioritize a counteroffensive farther south.
Ukraine used to beg for matching missiles. Shershen fires whatever’s in the warehouse.
Shershen matches a lot of different radars, launchers and missiles. It's just what Ukraine needs.
Russia’s snowmobile troops did everything by the book—the book was written before drones
Snowmobiles aren't necessarily bad assault vehicles. But to avoid detection by thermal drones, they need heat-trapping camouflage.