How can Ukraine defend against 190 ballistic missiles a month? In October, it stopped 7%
Russia aims to turn out Ukraine's lights and turn off its heat. The Patriot missiles will not come in time.
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.
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 and the Netherlands team up on missile defense as Europe plans its own missile killer, free of US approval
The best time to intercept an incoming ballistic missile is when it's just halfway to its target. Can Ukraine afford this capability?
Ukraine may already be pushing Operation Vivaldi across the Zherebets River. It’s a risky gamble
Two mappers put Ukrainian troops on the river’s eastern bank this week, including at Terny, where Russia crossed in 2024 and kept pushing until Vivaldi drove it back.
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.