The EU has billions in unspent defense funds. It wants to use them for projects with Ukraine
The plan could bring more Ukrainian defense companies into Europe's growing defense industry.
Russia’s strikes on UN warehouses push Ukraine aid money from delivery to protection
The UN is weighing underground storage for Ukraine aid supplies after Russia hit 10 of its facilities this year.
Kushner’s “win-win” peace deal is impossible when Putin wants all of Ukraine — Zelenskyy
The Ukrainian president said he knew Putin would never change his goal, and that the deal formula was built on a misreading of what Russia wanted.
19 Russian defense companies remain outside international sanctions, helping sustain Russia’s war machine
The companies are part of KRET, a major Russian defense holding, and produce navigation systems, gyroscopes, and motors used in missiles and drones.
Russian drones started 17 fires in Chernihiv Oblast, adding forest to the list of things the war destroys without aiming
Falling wreckage sparked blazes across nine oblasts in a single week, with nearly three-quarters of all forest fires linked to military activity.
Lithuania launches military exercises across 12 municipalities as Russia keeps probing NATO’s eastern border
A larger multinational exercise is running at the same time on the Belarusian border, with about 2,500 troops from eight countries.
Russian strikes will cost Ukraine’s economy up to $10 billion this year, ministry says
Kyiv is answering with compensation and cheap credit, aimed at the companies losing warehouses fastest.
Ukraine shows its drones in Canada as Ottawa pledges a third of its future output
The presentation followed a declaration on defense cooperation that Kyiv calls the first step toward a drone deal still to be signed.
“Sometimes I forget I don’t have a leg”: how two Ukrainian infantry soldiers returned to war behind screens
Two Ukrainian soldiers who lost limbs to mines have returned to Khartiia, their National Guard unit, working the drone screens—instead of walking into positions on the ground.
Kyiv couple marries after Russian strike ruins their home
Liudmyla and Leonid Ryzhak married in Kyiv on 8 September, hours after a Russian strike hit a warehouse across the street and a blast wave left their apartment uninhabitable. Screenshot from AP video
He photographed Ukraine, then enlisted and died defending it at 27. Eleven years on, Viktor Hurniak’s story is still being told
A new biography in a Ukrainian publisher's "True Heroes" series gathers what his family and friends remember of him.
Mines and unexploded munitions have harmed 1,688 civilians since Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine says
Farmers were the worst-hit occupation, in a country the UN's mine action service calls the most heavily contaminated since the Second World War.
“In the best blockbusters you wouldn’t see this”: Ukrainian soldier on fighting off a Russian drone from a moving Humvee
The soldier commands a squad that hauls wrecked armor off the battlefield, and this run cost the crew their own vehicle and a walk out on foot through mined ground.
European NATO members may be the second target of Russia’s winter missile buildup—Ukraine’s foreign intelligence
The warning went to the national security advisors of Europe's leaders, with a call for urgent sanctions on 55 more firms keeping Russia's missile lines running.