Ukrainian drones spark massive fire at Rosneft’s major oil refinery in Samara’s Novokuybyshevsk (video)
Explosions rocked the Samara Oblast oil facility in the early hours as Ukrainian drones pierced Russian defenses.
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Russia uses occupied territory of Ukraine to test its new long-range UMPB‑5R bomb on civilians
For the first time, Russian forces struck the city from occupied territory with a guided aviation bomb reaching 130 km, injuring five and destroying infrastructure.
With one hit, pro-Ukrainian partisans disrupted control over vital stretch of frontier with Russia
Border guards, aviation engineers, and Rosgvardiya units lost unified control after the communications hub was taken offline.
Russia dives into its nuclear past — prepares to raise Soviet submarines from Arctic seabed
Two Soviet-era wrecks, both radioactive and tied to deadly accidents, are now at the center of Russia’s Arctic ambitions.
Russia’s war math: at this pace, full occupation of Ukraine would take 103 years, The Economist says
Despite relentless assaults since May, Russia failed to seize Pokrovsk or any major city on the eastern front.
“He ended game”: Putin ally praises Trump’s Tomahawk bluff, rejects peace without Ukraine capitulation
Meanwhile, state propaganda celebrated the US Defense Secretary's Russian-colored tie at the Washington meeting.
“Angels” risked everything to bring them home — Ukrainian soldiers escape from Russian forced labor in occupied Luhansk
Ukrainian Naval special intelligence unit “Angels” has reported successfully returning home a 29-year-old Armed Forces veteran and a…
Finland draws line — Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk oblasts are Ukraine’s, not Russia’s
Recognizing annexation would embolden other regimes to redraw borders by force.
“Putin outplayed Trump again”: Russia pulls US president into Budapest meeting on its terms, says expert
The pattern was seen during the Alaska summit: talk, no results.
Finland proposes €200 billion Russian asset transfer to Ukraine to force Kremlin toward peace
Stubb says a European security alliance stands ready to back Kyiv with air, naval, and intelligence support, but America’s role remains irreplaceable.
White House talks turn “uncomfortable” as Trump denied long-range missiles for Kyiv ahead of Putin’s meeting in Hungary
One of the sources claims that this is due to the fact that Trump believes that Ukraine wants to prolong the war.
Russian aerial bombs hit Zaporizhzhia district kindergarten, injure two civilians
Russian forces dropped at least four guided aerial bombs on a settlement in Zaporizhzhia Oblast's Polohiv district on 18 October
How Ukraine’s top military units turned soldiers into employees—with better results
After three years in Russian detention, a Ukrainian lieutenant was met off the bus by Azov Care, which arranged his hospital, prosthetic, and 24/7 hotline. This soldier welfare approach—absent in Soviet tradition—helps explain how three units recruited 60,000 troops, The Economist reports.
Europe must build weapons for Ukraine independently of Washington, says ISW analyst
Direct European-Ukrainian defense production partnerships would prove more effective than repeated requests to Washington that often go unfulfilled, according to Mason Clark
Russia’s key Veshkayma substation in Ulyanovsk lost to drone attack 1,500 km from Kyiv
The substation connected Ulyanovsk, Mordovia, Chuvashia, and Samara regions, handling transit from reservoirs and hydropower plants.
Explosions kill three at Russian gunpowder production facility, eight injured
Safety regulation violations are the suspected cause of explosions that killed three workers at the Avangard ammunition plant in Sterlitamak on 17 October
IAEA brokers local ceasefire to fix Zaporizhzhia NPP power lines after record 4-week blackout
Specialists have reached the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to repair damaged power lines after a record four-week emergency mode operation that pushed diesel generators and the facility itself beyond their design limits
Satellite images confirm 11 fuel tanks destroyed at Crimean oil terminal after Ukrainian strikes
A key fuel supply hub for Russian forces in Crimea has lost 11 storage tanks to Ukrainian strikes this month, with several more tanks unlikely to be restored to operation.
Over 25,000 Russian troops deserted Central Military District in nine months
A single military district lost over 25K troops to desertion, with soldiers abandoning positions, disappearing from bases, or failing to return from leave, according to Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence.
Russia launches 164 drones across Ukraine: Poltava warehouse burns from falling debris
Russian forces launched 164 strike drones and three missiles against Ukraine during the night of 18 October, damaging a civilian warehouse in Poltava Oblast