Euromaidan Press Staff

Russia is racing to field 165,000 drone troops by year's end, Ukraine's commander-in-chief said, as Ukrainian forces struck the Krymskaya oil station, destroyed a ninth Tor-M1 in nine days, and Zelenskyy accused Washington of ignoring proof that Moscow passed US base coordinates to Iran.

The Washington Post reported that Hungary is simultaneously sharing intelligence with Iran, after US Vice President Vance flew to Budapest to campaign alongside its leader.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's frontline robot army has more than doubled in four months.

Leaked documents expose Russia's Africa disinformation machine, while Ukraine wins chess ruling at the CAS.

An RFI investigation places more than 200 Ukrainian military specialists at three Libyan sites with Mediterranean access, on the same day Cairo pledged to stop buying Russian-supplied grain from occupied Ukrainian territory and purchase Ukrainian wheat instead.

Hungary's block on €90 billion in EU funds for Ukraine is exposing a structural fracture in the bloc, with 26 member states increasingly moving ahead without Budapest.

Meanwhile, leaked transcripts revealed Hungary's foreign minister not only removed 72 Russian entities from EU sanctions but asked Moscow to write his arguments for delisting more.

On the day Russia spurned a Ukrainian ceasefire offer and demanded Donbas in two months, Kyiv accused Moscow of deliberately redirecting drones into Finland and the Baltic states — while continuing strikes on the Ust-Luga oil port for the second consecutive day.

On the home front, a looming budget crisis threatens to drain war funding.

Ukraine absorbed more than 3,000 drone strikes in seven days, its forces set Ust-Luga ablaze again with yet another Baltic port strike, and Zelenskyy arrived in Amman to sign the Gulf region's latest defense partnership — all while Atesh partisans were burning Russian electronic warfare towers to punch corridors for Ukrainian drones deep inside Russian territory.

From Baltic ports to Yaroslavl fuel hubs: Ukraine's drone and missile campaign is rewriting the rules of economic warfare.

Drones, icebreakers, and interceptors: Ukraine's precision campaign reshapes the war's economic front.

Ukraine struck the KINEF refinery in a third consecutive hit on Russia's northwestern energy corridor, as Britain's navy gained authority to board sanctioned shadow fleet vessels. Zelenskyy also revealed that Washington is conditioning any security guarantees on Ukraine surrendering all of Donbas.

Ukraine's long-range campaign against Russian territory reaches a new geographic milestone. The strikes are part of a broader offensive that has shut down 40% of Russian oil exports.