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Frontline report: Russia’s “surprise” motorcycle assault near Pokrovsk runs into waiting drones
Geolocated footage shows the entire column burning just one kilometer from its staging area, with dozens of Ukrainian drones already positioned to intercept.
Frontline report: Russia’s military air fleet is unraveling aircraft by aircraft, crew by crew
Catastrophic malfunctions are mounting across Russia’s aviation forces, with crashes, crew deaths, and systemic failures accelerating deep in the rear.
Frontline report: Europe shifts from defense to retaliation, prepares cyber response to Russian hybrid war
Baltic leaders say Russian hybrid operations now threaten the foundations of European security. Senior EU officials respond that the bloc must be ready to hit back.
Frontline report: Russia couldn’t fix its nuclear submarine, so it’s leasing it to India for $2 billion
After two decades of failed overhauls, Moscow is exporting advanced weapons systems it can no longer maintain to generate foreign currency for its war in Ukraine.
Frontline report: Russian waves collapse as bodies pile in anti-tank ditches under constant strikes!
Pokrovsk sector becomes killing field as Ukraine's drones devastate assault after assault
Frontline report: Ukrainian forces launch clearing operations in Kupiansk after cutting Russian supply line
With their supply line cut and reinforcements unable to reach them, Russian soldiers trapped in Kupiansk are increasingly choosing to surrender, according to footage and reports from the area. Ukraine says about 60 enemy troops remain in the town.
Frontline report: Putin threatens to cut Ukraine off from the sea, but Russia’s options are shrinking fast
After only two tankers in the Black Sea were destroyed and another damaged off Senegal, Moscow's early reaction shows how exposed it feels - yet escalation would likely strengthen Ukraine's position more than Russia's.
Frontline report: Russian troops caught in kill zone as Ukraine reclaims Ivanivka in daring counterattack
Overextended and unable to retreat, 53 Russian soldiers were killed and 19 surrendered after Ukrainian forces exploited dense fog to launch a combined arms assault.
Frontline report: Ukraine’s drone campaign pushes Russia’s oil industry toward collapse
With over 180 strikes on refineries and ports in 2025, Ukraine has slashed Russian fuel capacity by 25% and forced an export ban, while Rosneft's income collapsed 70%.
Frontline report: Russia’s shadow fleet begins to collapse as Ukraine expands maritime campaign beyond Black Sea
Naval drone strikes have turned the Black Sea into a high-risk zone for Russian oil shipping, while incidents off Senegal suggest Ukrainian targeting now follows Russia's global export routes.
Frontline report: Russia’s third Kharkiv offensive unravels as flag-planting stunt ends in disaster
Moscow rushed to claim Vovchansk was captured, but footage of fallen flag bearers lying in rubble tells a different story.
Frontline report: Russian military’s brutal abuse culture spawns wave of internal revenge killings
Tortured by their own commanders, Russian soldiers are surrendering to Ukraine - and when prisoner exchanges send them back, some return to kill the men who abused them.
Frontline report: Moldova escapes Moscow’s orbit through slow strangulation of Russian influence
Thirty-three years after independence, Moldova is finally breaking free - not through war, but through the deliberate dismantling of every lever Russia once possessed. Unionist sentiment, once marginal, has become the fastest-growing political force in the country.
Frontline report: Russia revives Soviet-era barter trade as oil revenues plunge and currency reserves dry up
Moscow has issued a 14-page guide instructing companies on how to structure goods-for-goods contracts and bypass banking channels, with at least eight documented transactions swapping wheat and flax for Chinese cars and appliances.
Frontline report: Russian officers privately admit war has reached ‘strategic deadlock’ maintained only by Putin’s stubbornness
Today, there is interesting news from the Russian Federation. Here, the Russian political leadership is claiming confidently that…
Frontline report: From Melitopol to Moscow, resistance forces give Russia a war it can’t see coming
Near-daily sabotage and intelligence leaks are eroding the Kremlin’s confidence in rear-area security.
Frontline report: Ukrainian marines ambush Russian infiltrators in ruins of Myrnohrad — capture them alive
Fog and shattered buildings helped turn Russia’s high-stakes push into a quiet surrender on the town’s front line.
Frontline report: Ukraine clears Lyman’s forests with drones, snipers, and US fighters — Russians forced back to Yampil
Once a gray zone, the wooded belt near Lyman is becoming a trap where infiltrators are exposed and picked off.
Frontline report: Street-by-street battle for Kupiansk turns against overextended Russian forces
Russia controls roughly 30 percent of the town after narrow infiltration tactics left their gains unstable. Now Ukraine's newly formed Joint Forces Group is counterattacking from four directions to encircle them instead.