1,600 Russians died capturing, then retreating from, one small settlement
A hacked database indicates 1,600 Russian troops died in one tiny village in northern Donetsk. Zelena Dolyna is a bloody symbol of the whole wider war.
Ukraine has reportedly tested air-launched interceptors at the edge of space. The missile is the easy part
Such missile defenses in the cold of space could stop Russia's Oreshnik. But that doesn't mean those defenses will be ready any time soon.
Attack of the robots: Ukraine sent 28 armed ground robots, eight rigged to explode, at Russian lines. Russian drones stopped them—this time
The Russian drones won this time, and it won’t matter much: Ukraine is building ground robots by the tens of thousands, and the next 28 might get through.
The drones that wrecked the road to Kramatorsk are still hunting. Ukraine’s answer: a Frankenstein bulldozer bristling with spikes
It's a dangerous, dirty job clearing wrecked vehicles from a strategic eastern highway. But the 100th Mechanized Brigade's engineers are up to it.
Russian vehicles can now shrug off cheap drones. Near Huliaipole, Ukrainian pilots are sending ones they can’t
The 237th Unmanned Systems Battalion is aiming heavy drones, usually saved for targets far behind the front, at single armored vehicles, trading one expensive drone for a near-certain kill.
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.