Ukraine swapped its whole Cabinet, kept the one general nobody wanted, and lost the minister everyone did
The prime minister nobody rallied for is out. So is the defense minister thousands did.
Ukraine’s government reshuffle followed the letter of the Constitution. But did it follow its spirit?
The official paper trail shows who decided first.
Zelenskyy defends the right to protest and hands defense to his strike-war chief
He passed over the expected frontrunner and gave the job to his special operations chief, the man behind Ukraine’s long-range strikes.
Russia’s port strikes leave Ukraine’s grain with almost nowhere else to go
Russia’s strikes have halted Ukraine’s deepwater grain exports—and there’s no way around the damage: one rail line carries almost all of it.
The Syrskyi feud was not it: why Ukraine really dropped its drone-war minister
As crowds fill the streets in cities across Ukraine to support the forced-out minister, a deputy air force commander says he joined in 2022 to win the war, not to watch reforms stall.
Russia’s fuel crisis has moved from the pump to the harvest
As the fuel crisis deepens, Russia’s regional governors are improvising. Ukrainian drones have driven the country’s oil refining…
How Ukraine came to build more weapons than it can fund
Its top defense-industry chief just resigned after a deadly blast at one of his company’s depots.
Ukraine’s premier listed a record year to the parliament that dismissed her
No one in Kyiv has said why. Her own farewell leaves out the name that would explain it.
Russia has the oil. It no longer has the gasoline—so Russians are learning to make their own
Ukraine’s drone campaign has cut Russian refining to its lowest level since March 2005—and the diesel Russia can no longer sell is driving world fuel prices to multiyear highs.
Ukraine votes to dismiss its PM. She hasn’t accepted the exit job offered
Three sources say the outgoing premier is not considering the Washington posting used to justify her removal.
Russia stalled bankruptcy reform for six years—then passed it in two days
Russian companies owe more than the country produces in a year, and a reform frozen since 2020 was cleared by parliament in two days.
As Ukraine’s draft crisis erupts in Lviv, its own soldiers keep walking out
Many of the men who went to save the day in 2022 are still at the front; the ones who didn’t are still at home, and the government has wasted four years not saying why that has to change.
Lviv mobilization riot exposes the draft system Ukraine’s government has refused to fix
Two official watchdogs said the fault lies higher up—with a mobilization overhaul that hasn’t reached the recruiters.
Russia’s war economy is starving its own strategic projects
Russia’s top arms maker can’t afford to build its own garbage incinerators.