Once in Russian hands, the 22‑year‑old says he endured empty promises of cash, a rushed 16‑day training, and an assault mission he allegedly never wanted.
While Russian drones violate NATO airspace and generals warn of looming war with China and Russia, new polling shows Europeans losing the will to rearm — a trend that could cost the continent its readiness.
Ukraine’s Neptune missiles, originally built to destroy warships, have been transformed into long-range precision weapons capable of striking targets up to 1,000 kilometers away.
Monthly production of Ukraine's Bohdana artillery system has reached 40 units, four times the rate recorded in May 2024, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
Ukraine's defense industry has scaled production to 40 Bohdana artillery systems per month and delivered 2.4 mn rounds to the front in the previous year, Zelenskyy said
Russia’s spy agency now claims the UK is preparing pro‑Ukrainian Russians to stage an attack on a Ukrainian or allied ship in Europe, using Chinese equipment to make it appear China supports Russia, which actually does support Russia.
Slovakia will transfer five Bożena demining machines and medical equipment to Ukraine in the first direct military aid package since Robert Fico's government halted transfers in October 2023
A Russian citizen who joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a volunteer was detained in Lviv after providing the FSB with coordinates for missile strikes on Lviv Oblast, the SBU reports.
Russian strike drones damaged an agricultural enterprise building storing grain in Novhorod-Siverskyi, Chernihiv Oblast, on the morning of 7 Oct., with no casualties reported
Multiple strikes near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear facility on 6 October coincide with the station's tenth and longest power outage since Russia's full-scale invasion
The third Ukrainian drone strike on Kirishinefteorgsintez this year disabled CDU-6, forcing the facility to operate at 70% capacity while processing 6.6% of Russia's national crude oil output.
British author spent the night of 5 Oct. in a Lviv shelter as Russia launched 549 drones and missiles at Ukraine. He watched mothers hold their sleeping children as explosions rattled the basement. "My child is sleeping safely in the UK. Safe, for as long as Ukrainians defend Europe's borders," he wrote.
Precision strikes by the 412th Nemesis Regiment and State Border UAVs wiped out R‑330Zh, destroying the Russian ability to jam radios, satellites, and UAVs in the Luhansk sector.
Ukraine will receive five Bożena remotely controlled demining machines from Slovakia despite the prime minister's earlier freeze on direct military transfers