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Their father died defending Ukraine. A former Ukrainian brigade commander is now suspected in the murder of his two sons

Investigators suspect the former commander of the 155th Separate Mechanized Brigade ordered the abduction and killing of the two brothers of a fallen serviceman

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Every primary unit at a Rosneft refinery is burning — 100% of its crude processing capacity

The plant turned 8.5 million tons of oil a year into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. Analysts say it now turns out nothing.

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Britain’s incoming leader promises Ukraine aid “will not waver”—but money is the catch

Andy Burnham pledges British support "will not waver." The reassurance is real—and it answers a question Kyiv was never really asking

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Poland armed Ukraine with Patriot missiles. Its president’s camp called it “treason”

Warsaw sent the interceptors at Washington and NATO's request. The opposition-aligned presidency framed it as betrayal — and the defense minister fired back.

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Japan builds the missiles Ukraine needs most—its own rules forbid the handoff

The day after Trump promised a production license, Zelenskyy named the production partner he wants. The problem: Japan still doesn't sell weapons to countries at war.

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CEO of one of Ukraine’s biggest drone makers just got raided. He also owns outlet that exposed 25 non-combat deaths at military unit

No court order. Forty locations searched. One in four Ukrainian front-line drones at risk of disruption. And a timeline that Babel's editor says "leads to very bad conclusions."

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Ukraine rewrote the Patriot playbook—but it’s still running out of missiles

Single-shot intercepts. $30,000 decoys. Ukrainian crews training Gulf forces. Ukraine has become an air-defense innovator—and it is still losing the race against Russia's missiles.

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Russia attacks Ukraine’s civilians at a scale few people realize. Kyiv reveals number at UN

Kyiv used a counterterrorism forum — not a war crimes tribunal to argue that what Russia is doing has a name the whole UN already agreed to condemn. Moscow took the floor three speakers later.

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Russia’s AI drone can’t be jammed or detected—so Ukraine shot it down

No antenna. No operator. No emissions for a detector to catch. Ukraine's answer is no longer electronic warfare—it's a bullet.

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Russia is hitting Ukrainian fuel stations 20 times a week. Ukrainian law tells them exactly where each one is

186 strikes since April. The targeting intelligence isn't coming from drones — it's in a public registry

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Kostiantynivka: Why one city in Donbas matters so much that Putin lies about having captured it

Putin declared the city “liberated” while Ukrainian troops still held it, a lie aimed at the negotiating table, not the battlefield

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Putin says Russia is 10 kilometers from Sumy. Real distance shows how Kremlin manufactures collapsing front

A year of fighting in Sumy Oblast has produced advances measured in hundreds of meters. Near Kindrativka, Russia was pushed back toward the border

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Poland’s military expansion reveals the gap between ambition and battlefield readiness

NATO's biggest eastern spender would meet a Russian attack today with two divisions ready in a week and four that need weeks, or aren't built yet, a Polish daily reports.

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Sweden adopts Ukrainian place names, abandoning Russian-derived spellings: “We counter Russian attempts to erase Ukrainian culture”

Kiev, Odessa, Donbass: three place names, three layers of imperial history. Sweden just chose a different set