Maxim Volovich

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Trained in international relations, Maxim Volovich spent two decades as a diplomat and now covers regional and foreign policy issues as a journalist at Euromaidan Press.

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Map showing the location of the Sukhodolnaya oil pumping station near Oktyabrskiy in Russia’s Rostov Oblast, targeted by Ukrainian drones on 1 October, with satellite analysis confirming severe damage

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Ukrainian drones devastate oil pumping hub in Russia’s Rostov Oblast, satellite imagery reveals

Ukraine’s long-range drones struck deep into Russian territory, disabling a key oil station and disrupting fuel supplies across the Rostov region

UK Defense Secretary John Healey shakes hands with Ukrainian Minister of Defense Denys Shmyhal in Kyiv during his fifth visit to discuss Britain’s military support for Ukraine, with UK and Ukrainian flags in the background

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UK delivers 85,000 drones to Ukraine in six months, warns allies must outpace Putin

UK's £600 million investment delivers 85,000 drones to Ukraine as Defense Secretary warns NATO must accelerate production

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Oleksandr Syrskyi (center), reviewing a military map with Ukrainian officers in Donetsk Oblast on 4 October 2025

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukrainian counterattacks expose Russian command chaos across Pokrovsk front

Three Russian brigades forced to halt operations as coordination failures between army corps turn tactical setbacks into operational disruptions

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump stand together in front of Ukrainian and US flags after their meeting

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Trump threatens Tomahawk missiles for Ukraine if Putin refuses to end war

Tomahawk talks intensify ahead of Zelenskyy’s visit to Washington

Victoria Roshchyna among other 2025 IPI-IMS World Press Freedom Heroes honored by the International Press Institute and International Media Support

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Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna posthumously named World Press Freedom Hero

Award honors journalist killed in Russian captivity for her fearless reporting from occupied Ukraine

Ukraine’s FM Sybiha: “Russia is worse than Hamas” after 465-drone strike cripples energy grid

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Ukraine’s FM calls Russia “worse than Hamas” as 465 drones strike energy grid on attack anniversary

Sybiha: Even Hamas agreed to ceasefire talks, Moscow rejects all diplomacy

Illustration showing the Kremlin leader overseeing a digital battlefield map, symbolizing Russia’s evolving military strategy in the Ukraine war and ambitions for a wider conflict in Europe

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Russia adapts military strategy, posing new challenges for Ukraine and Western allies

The Kremlin’s evolving approach to warfare threatens Ukraine and demands a NATO response

From left to right: António Costa, Mette Frederiksen, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and Ursula von der Leyen at the EPC summit in Denmark, 1 October 2025.

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Latest news Ukraine

Kyiv’s EU hopes collide with Dutch veto defense at Copenhagen summit

Despite affirming Ukraine's EU future, Dutch PM rejects bypassing the veto right

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Latest news Ukraine

€140 billion for Ukraine stalls in EU deadlock: Belgium blocks loan that could secure Ukraine’s future

Meanwhile, leaders from Finland and Sweden argue that investing in Ukraine is investing in European security, yet obstacles in the Eurozone persist.

Russian sabotage campaign parcel explosion DHL plane EU

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Hybrid War

Russia activated Soviet submarine veterans to bomb European cargo planes, journalists reveal

"Stop calling it hybrid war. It's war," investigative journalist Michael Weiss tells Euromaidan Press

Robert Fico visiting Viktor Orbán in Budapest. (source: TASR/MTI), via spectator.sme.sk

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Latest news Ukraine

Orbán and Fico defy Trump, EU on Russian energy as bloc prepares tariff response

Brussels is preparing new tariffs targeting Russian crude through Budapest and Bratislava

trump's paper tiger jab russia followed diplomatic showdown lavrov american russian delegations led marco rubio sergey meet sidelines un ga 23 2025 tass download america's top diplomat delivered blunt demand

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International

Trump’s “paper tiger” jab at Russia followed by diplomatic showdown with Lavrov

America's top diplomat, Marco Rubio, delivered a blunt demand after the US President's reversal on Ukraine’s territorial concessions.

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