Reuters: The Patriot deal Trump denied is quietly still alive
Washington kept working to let Ukraine build the interceptors even after the US President's doubts, four sources told Reuters.
Ex-top general Zaluzhnyi explains his “Ukraine will never join NATO” remark: I back the Alliance, but it must transform first
He says the bloc is stuck in Cold War thinking and needs a new doctrine before Kyiv could ever fit in.
A slice of Estonia’s new EU billions will buy drones—for Ukraine, not itself
The money is a 45-year loan drawn from Brussels' new joint defense fund, which lets member states borrow cheaply.
47 sites destroyed, 1,943 damaged: Russia’s toll on Ukrainian heritage keeps climbing
Ukraine's culture ministry counts close to 2,000 heritage sites hit since 2022, with 90 more added in just the last month.
The throwaway agents Moscow sent after a Bavarian drone boss arming Ukraine—and how Germany stopped them
A former Ukrainian bricklayer and an untrained Romanian woman took turns watching him before both were arrested.
Seventh time this year: Ukrainian drones torch a top-five Russian refinery in Yaroslavl
The pre-dawn raid sent several columns of black smoke over the Slavneft-YANOS plant, which turns crude into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel for central Russia.
Take Lyman, then Sloviansk, then Kramatorsk: Russia’s plan is still stuck on step one, the Ukrainian military says
Russian commanders treat the town as the necessary launchpad, yet their infantry cannot hold ground inside it, according to the report.
ISW: First Pokrovsk, then Huliaipole—now Russia points its logistics-killing air campaign at the Fortress Belt
The 2025 version took months to set up advances, and this one is expected to move just as slowly.
This Russian refinery makes the jet fuel for Moscow’s warplanes—and Ukraine keeps setting it on fire
Syzran supplies airfields and units of two Russian military districts, and it sits over 800 km from Ukraine. Also, Wildberries confirmed a fire at the Krasny Bor complex, the third of its Leningrad Oblast hubs struck in under two weeks.
Russia wanted Novorossiysk to be its main export gateway—Ukraine turned it into a chokepoint
The port handled every fifth ton of Russia's seaborne exports, but a grain-exporters' union now warns the Black Sea corridors could be blocked entirely.
Ukraine’s sea drone that never touched the shore struck two Russian radars in occupied Crimea
The uncrewed boat stayed offshore and released an FPV drone that finished the job, part of an operation Ukraine's spies ran in late July.
The most in any month this year: Russia fired 126 ballistic missiles at Ukraine in July
The count of Iskander-M, North Korean, and repurposed air-defense missiles topped every month since January, a monitoring channel tracking the launches found.
A Russian warehouse built to hold 120 million items is burning east of Moscow region
Russia's largest online retailer confirmed the fire, evacuated staff, and reported no casualties, while the regional governor said emergency crews were working at the scene.
ISW: Russia’s long push toward Sloviansk gains no ground as Ukraine counterattacks
Its assaults across northern Donetsk Oblast produced no confirmed advances in the newest DC-based think tank's war assessment, an offensive now grinding into its fifth month.