One Ukrainian tank, three soldiers, and 50,000 Russians stopped in Sumy
Three Ukrainian soldiers fired 125mm shells at point-blank range near the village of Yablunivka, halting a month-long Russian offensive aimed at Sumy Oblast.
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Russian aggression in Europe and in Ukraine in particular.
Frontline report: Putin rushes massive troop surge to Moldova breakaway to save European land bridge dreams
Ukraine's cutoff of Russian gas has collapsed Transnistria's economy and sparked local doubts about Russian alignment, threatening to eliminate Moscow's only viable endpoint for westward expansion.
Ukraine’s new M-1 Abrams tanks are ready—but their brigade might not be
Ukraine is getting 49 M-1 tanks from Australia. It risks wasting them.
Frontline report: Ukraine’s making 120 Bayraktar drones a year—and sending them after Russian warships
Ukraine has launched domestic production of the Turkish-designed Bayraktar drone and is now using it to target Russian warships in the Black Sea.
Inside Russia’s secret digital war on NATO’s logistics lifeline to Ukraine
A report reveals the scope of a three-year-long cyber campaign: infiltrators gained long-term access using spearphishing and known software flaws.
“Every object is a maybe.” Russia’s cheapest traps are killing Ukraine’s scarce bomb experts
“Could be any of this,” the sapper said, pointing to my phone and a Sprite can. In Kherson, he lost his foot finding out.
Ukraine deploys Leopard 1A5 “sniper tanks” with 7 brigades
Fitted with layered armor, these aging tanks are surviving drone strikes, even on Ukraine’s most dangerous front lines.
Frontline report: Colombian vets and Ukrainian drones sweep Russian trenches in Kursk forest
Colombian fighters stormed a Russian trench network near Ukraine’s border, clearing bunkers with drone support, grenades, and close-quarters combat.
Ukraine just declared open season on Russia’s drone nests in urgent strategy shift
Ukraine isn’t just shooting down drones anymore—it’s going after the operators. Under new leadership, drone crews are now the priority targets.
Frontline report: UK patrols cut off Russian shadow tankers at Baltic chokepoints – Putin’s oil billions at risk
A Russian warship escorted illegal oil through the Channel on 16 June. The UK responded — at sea and on sanctions lists.
Frontline report: Ukraine set a forest trap in Sumy — a Russian battalion vanished inside
Ukrainian forces killed battalion commander Andrey Yartsev and overran his command post, forcing dozens of Russian soldiers to surrender.
Russia killed her mom and little sister. Now her iPhone keeps showing them smiling.
The photo shows Mariia's proud face after cutting her own hair.
These spiky Russian vans look like a joke—until the drones hit
What looks like a construction site mishap is actually Russia’s “porcupine van”—a spiked vehicle built to deflect Ukrainian drones on the battlefield.
Frontline report: Russia’s 23-vehicle assault fails in Donetsk kill zone
Ukrainian forces destroyed 18 armored vehicles in under three hours as Russian forces drove into a deadly Ukrainian ambush southwest of Kostiantynivka.
“Jamming no longer works” — The Ukrainian commander who saw tomorrow’s drone war arrive early
For Ukraine, jamming Russia’s drones used to work. But fiber-linked models ignore the signal — there’s nothing left to disrupt.
Frontline report: Russian troops could vanish into a forest and pop out inside NATO
At the Suwalki Gap, Russia doesn’t need a blitz—just fog, forest, and time.
Ukraine just brought back its Bayraktar TB-2 drones—and they’re breaking through Russia’s air defenses
Missile-armed TB-2s are flying again over southern Ukraine.
Russia is churning out hundreds of new T-90M tanks — but why aren’t they all in Ukraine?
Moscow is stockpiling its best armor. The question is: for what fight?
Frontline report: Year-long Russian assault on strategic Kupiansk fails as Ukrainians methodically drain enemy forces
Ukrainian defenders exploit Russian reliance on vulnerable rubber boat river crossings by allowing limited penetrations, then systematically sealing breaches to isolate and eliminate trapped infantry groups.
Frontline report: German aid helps Ukraine develop hypersonic missile able to destroy bunkers deep inside Russia
Germany’s €5 billion aid package directly funded the Ukrainian Hrim-2’s domestic development, which has a payload double that of the US-supplied ATACMS, enabling Ukraine to destroy fortified Russian bunkers up to 300 km behind the front.