She lived in Europe for years and came back to Kyiv for week. Returnee says Ukraine’s reality is not what you read about in news
She arrived from warm, well-lit Europe to renew documents, and within a few hours, she was hearing explosions…
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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026
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All news about the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2022.
Russia rushed reinforcements to its fracturing southeast. They rode in unarmored and in broad daylight
Two weeks after Russian communications collapsed, Ukrainian troops are still counterattacking—and inflicting heavy losses on the Russians.
Kyiv robbed Pokrovsk to save Zaporizhzhia. The gamble is paying off
When Ukrainian forces fell back a short distance north of Pokrovsk recently, it was the result of a deliberate choice in Kyiv: to prioritize a counteroffensive farther south.
Ukraine is counterattacking across nine vectors. The goal isn’t to advance
With the Russian cut off from Starlink, the Ukrainians have the edge for now. Instead of attempting a risky counteroffensive, Ukrainian troops in the southeast are fighting to firm up their defenses.
Ukraine counterattacks as Musk’s Starlink crackdown grounds Russian drones
Russia just lost Starlink access. Now Ukraine has an opportunity to retake lost territory.
Ukraine fired a barrage of Flamingo missiles at Russia’s Oreshnik missile base—and apparently missed
Ukraine's Flamingo cruise missiles are back in action in small numbers. But it seems they missed a very valuable target.
Ukraine dominates the drone war at the front—but Russia owns the sky behind it
A flurry of deep strikes on Russian logistics by Ukrainian FP-2 drones belies a bigger problem: the Russians may be winning the deep drone war.
Russian troops may have seized their best chance to strangle Kostiantynivka
Fog and rain could help Russian troops sever Kostyantynivka's main supply line. If the city falls, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk are in trouble.
Collective survival beats post-Soviet authority dependency: Five unexpected consequences of Russian attacks on Kyiv
Summer cottages with solar panels, batteries, and fireplaces become survival fortresses for the Ukrainians as strikes and power shortages push people from cities.
The Russians replaced more than 9,000 destroyed vehicles. They can’t do it again.
The Russians have managed to replace practically every single armored fighting vehicle they've lost since February 2022. But they depleted one-time reserves.
Russian tanks went underground. Their radios didn’t shut up.
Signals intelligence is helping one Ukrainian drone unit blunt the assault on Sloviansk before it starts
Ukraine closed one door into Kostiantynivka. Russia found another already open
Repulsed east and south of Kostiantynivka, the Russian Center Group of Forces may be trying to infiltrate the city from the west.
Russia fired its scariest missile at Ukraine’s MiG-29 plant. It probably missed.
It might take more than a single Oreshnik missile to knock out the fighter repair plant in Lviv.
The quiet tactic that took Pokrovsk may already be inside Kostiantynivka
Taking advantage of Ukraine's desperate manpower shortage, Russian infiltrators may be creeping into their next objective: the eastern settlement of Kostiantynivka.
Russia breaks Kyiv’s energy ring as capital faces worst energy crisis of the war
Broken ring means available power can't reach neighborhoods with destroyed substations
Territorial troops first seized, now assaulting—Ukraine’s infantry crisis goes critical
A Ukrainian official was wrong or lied. Yes, the Ukrainian assault forces have apparently compelled poorly trained territorials to conduct dangerous assault operations.
As Russians advance on Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian units turn on each other
Masked assault troops "extracted" territorials by truck. Command denies anyone was kidnapped.
Russia parked the tanks in 2025—and gained 30% more ground. Will it work in 2026?
Infantry slipped past drones in cities. Open fields are different.
Ukraine is losing in the south—and Ukrainian commanders are blaming the outnumbered troops on the ground
Ukraine starves its territorial troops of manpower and equipment. No wonder they're falling back in Zaporizhzhia.
Huliaipole fell. Its defenders had been abandoned long before.
The battle for Huliaipole was a defeat for the 102nd and 106th Territorial Defense Brigades. But that doesn't necessarily mean the defeat was the territorials' fault.