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Ukraine has built 822 kilometers of anti-drone road tunnels. Each kilometer means safer evacuations and faster supply
In May alone, the State Special Transport Service rebuilt 115.5 km of conventional road, Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said.
Russia is already causing harm to UK. Britain may not be prepared for what comes next, says former top general
Lord Peach, the former UK Chief of the Defence Staff said the hybrid war is already happening.
Russia reportedly restricts bus and private car movement on main arteries through occupied territories, capping two weeks of land-corridor breakdown
The stated reason is protection against Ukrainian "attacks on civilian transport." The actual reason is visible in the two-week sequence of events that produced the closures.
Flat steppe: Ukraine is strangling Crimea’s supply lines from air. Melitopol-Chonhar road is latest target
The operation extends the squeeze on Russia's land corridor to the occupied Crimean peninsula.
Kronstadt, Russia’s major naval Base after Black Sea Fleet losses, gets hit by Ukrainian drones (VIDEO)
Russia was in the middle of hosting foreign investors.
US warned Russia it would “be very, very sorry” over 2022 nuclear use, NATO ex-military chief confirms
Russian forces in Ukraine would be "taken out conventionally" by the Americans, the Kremlin was warned amid Kherson retreat, Admiral Bauer says
“Ukraine might have won” if NATO had acted in 2022, ex-top chief says
Admiral Rob Bauer says the West armed Ukraine too slowly to win—and never had a strategy for victory at all
Ukraine doubles deep strikes beyond 50 km as “Logistics Lockdown” shifts priority deeper into Russia’s transport nodes and rear logistics chains
Kyiv says the shift is part of a wider effort to disrupt supply chains and degrade Russia’s ability to sustain frontline operations.
A ship linked to stolen grain from occupied Ukraine was seized in Sweden. A court says Kyiv can have it.
The vessel was detained in March and is suspected of helping move grain from Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory.
German defense firm has made Ukraine its second-largest international base
Germany's Quantum Systems is building drones, ground robots, and software.
Ukraine’s Bullet interceptor gets speed upgrade. It now has chemical accelerator to chase down Russian 500 km/h Geran-4
The accelerator burns chemical fuel rather than using jet propulsion.
Ukraine’s drones hit 5 vessels in occupied Azov ports overnight — Azerbaijan says 5 of its nationals died as Russia blames Kyiv
Unmanned Systems Forces commander Robert "Madyar" Brovdi called the boats smugglers carrying looted grain, fuel, and military supplies with names painted over and radars off.
The Crimean Bridge is heavily guarded. Ukraine struck its maritime security layer in the Kerch Strait.
Ukrainian officials say the ship was deployed to patrol and monitor approaches to the Crimean Bridge as part of Russia’s layered security network in occupied Crimea.
Ukraine ranks its drone units on how deep they see. The 413th has been at top for three months
The Unmanned Systems Forces unit held first place in March and April 2026, and second in May, in Ukraine's Delta battlefield-awareness system rankings.
“An unwavering priority”: 186 Ukrainians return home in major prisoner swap with Russia
Several of the freed Ukrainians were detained in 2022, with some taken during the battles for Mariupol and Azovstal.
Ukraine women’s volleyball team wins first-ever Nations League match, beating Germany in tiebreak
The squad—in its debut Nations League season—trailed by six points in the second set before completing a comeback to take it 30–28.
Marine drone explodes at Romanian port, defense ministry suspects Ukrainian origin
The unmanned vessel detonated near the headquarters of Romania's maritime search-and-rescue agency at around 10:30 am.
Crimea’s occupying authorities ban filming fuel tankers, calling it aid to sabotage
Russian-installed officials warned that prosecution can begin at age 14, even as residents kept circulating footage of burning convoys across the peninsula.
On World Environment Day, Ukraine counted $156 billion in environmental damage from Russia’s war
Ukraine's Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, marked World Environment Day on 5 June with a damage assessment: $156 billion total, of which $90 billion in destroyed nature protection areas and $45 billion in polluted soils.