Euromaidan Press Staff

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.

Saturday's Kyiv–Washington meeting, a shadow fleet seized in the Mediterranean, and a 71% Ukrainian public convinced peace talks will fail: the war's diplomatic track is as contested as its front lines.

Ukraine is deploying 201 drone specialists to the Gulf, opening terabytes of battlefield data to allied AI trainers, and launching its first AI war lab — while drone battalions hold three Russian armies west of Pokrovsk and counterattacks in Dnipropetrovsk burn through Russia's operational reserves.

Russia poisons a river, drones hit Kyiv at dawn, and four years on, Mariupol's theater echoes in 20 cities.

Zelenskyy says the supply chains are known — and dismantling them is the only way to reduce attacks when air defenses can't cover everything.

F-16s meanwhile intercepted every cruise missile in a 498-drone-and-missile overnight barrage.

A 30-day US waiver for Russian oil, a Swedish boarding of a shadow-fleet tanker, and intelligence that Moscow plans to re-flag 80 vessels tell the same story: the Western sanctions architecture is under its sharpest stress since the war began, and both sides are moving fast to exploit the gap.

As Russia industrializes drone warfare and eyes a six-figure drone force by April, Ukraine is opening its front-line combat AI database to allies.

Ukraine pushes Russia back 400 km² in Dnipropetrovsk, and destroys the radar and missile factory meant to stop it.

Ukraine, meanwhile, has gone from importing almost no weapons before the full-scale invasion to becoming the world's largest arms buyer in just four years, with 25 countries purchasing US-made weapons specifically for transfer to Kyiv.

Ukraine absorbed nearly 10% of all global arms imports between 2021 and 2025 — up from just 0.1% five years earlier — as at least 36 countries coordinated to replace what Russia tried to destroy, according to a new SIPRI fact sheet. On the same day that data landed, Ukrainian drones destroyed a Russian Tor air defense system in Donetsk Oblast and a Grad rocket launcher in Zaporizhzhia. Hungary, meanwhile, is holding $82 million seized from Ukraine's state bank at gunpoint, with no named suspect in the criminal case it launched to justify keeping the money.

Hungary has emerged as a key front in Russia's information war, with a GRU-linked cell operating from Moscow's Budapest embassy running an election interference campaign to keep Orbán in his position.