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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

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All news about the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2022.

Elon Musk: “Starlink will never turn off for Ukraine”

6 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Starlink helped Ukraine pull off Operation Vivaldi. Now Starlink could help Russia take the ground back

The operation retook 277 square kilometers north of Lyman. The drones that now hold that line lose their Starshield link above about 160 km/h.

byDavid Axe

russia's secret aviation report fighter jet clipped its own shelter gate 500 kg bomb fell takeoff helicopter came home printer-paper-sized hole nine engine failures three weeks · post russian su-34

5 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Russia still parks its best bombers in the open. Ukraine has spent a year knocking out the air defenses that were supposed to protect them

The Russian air force parked six Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bombers out in the open at a base within reach of Ukraine's Neptune cruise missiles. Now at least four are wreckage.

byDavid Axe

5 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Russia is losing the Black Sea grain war it started. Its answer is to sink civilian ships off Romania and Bulgaria

The burning ships off Romania and Bulgaria are the latest round of a contest Ukraine opened this summer, when it began choking Russia’s own Black Sea exports

byDavid Axe

5 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Russia is back at Dobropillia a year after it failed there. Now it’s the southern jaw of a pincer on Donbas’s last big free cities

This time Russia brought another army, and Dobropillia’s defenders have until the leaves fall to stop it.

byDavid Axe

5 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps took the lessons of the failed 2023 counteroffensive into Operation Vivaldi. It fought small, and won.

Five months in, it has erased 18 months of Russian advances toward Sloviansk.

byDavid Axe

russian radar occupied crimea didn't see ukrainian drones coming became 28th air-defense asset wrecked · post supply trucks burning mariupol-melitopol highway main road russia's land corridor 29 2026 exilenova+ -

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

“Supplying Crimea is turning into a nightmare”: Ukrainian drones hit Russian trucks 770 times in September, and winter will make it worse, analyst says

That's the most of any month this year, up from 630 in August, even though Russian supply trucks now travel in convoys with their own air defense.

byDavid Axe

3rd Army Corps troops disembark from an armored vehicle.

6 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Armored assaults aren’t dead. Robots got the credit, but it was Ukrainian infantry in armored trucks that reversed a year of Russian gains near Lyman

Robots cleared the mines and blew up the bunkers, but soldiers still had to ride in and hold the ground.

byDavid Axe

ukraine advertise its new ballistic missiles until factories can mass-produce ex-security officer says · post test launch fp-7 missile prototype fire point news ukrainian reports

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine fired its first FP-7 ballistic missile in combat. Its maker says next version will do what Ukraine needed since 2022

Zelensky announced the launch on 1 October without naming the target, and wrote that production comes next.

byDavid Axe

5 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine keeps finding ways to replace its MiG-29s. It’s running out of MiG-29s to find

The latest loss came Thursday, when Capt. Marat Mambetov, 25, ejected after a Russian missile hit his jet on a strike mission but did not survive.

byDavid Axe

475th Assault Regiment tanks under drone escort.

4 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine is now sending its tanks into battle with drone escorts: they can drive into a Russian kill zone and come back alive

The 475th Assault Regiment, short of infantry, was clearing Russian infiltrators out of Vilkhuvatka, a Kharkiv Oblast village 9 km from the Russian border, and its hedgehog tanks took repeated hits on the way to point-blank range.

byDavid Axe

7 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine retook 240 square km north of Lyman and nobody reported it for three months

The 3rd Army Corps attacked on 22 May and nobody outside the army reported it until late August. Whether it changes the war is the one thing the analysts do not agree on.

byDavid Axe

5 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine is working down the short list of ships that shell its cities with cruise missiles. A Neptune reached one of them tied up at its own pier

Drones went in with the missile, and the general staff counts three more vessels and the port's fuel-oil storage hit the same night.

byDavid Axe

6 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine is sending its winning brigades to where the fighting is worst. The 46th just turned up outside Kramatorsk

Sloviansk and Kramatorsk are the last two big cities in the Donbas that Russia does not hold. The 46th Airmobile Brigade left the southeast in early July and reached them before anyone outside the army knew.

byDavid Axe

6 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Desperate to save Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, Ukrainian forces counterattack and reinforce

A Russian pincer is slowly closing around the last two big free cities in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. Winter will be a brief reprieve.

byDavid Axe

A Patriot air defense missile launcher. Photo: South Korean defense ministry.

8 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine has five ways to stop Russia’s Iskanders. Only one arrives before the strikes on the grid begin

It means finding a launcher in a forest during the twenty minutes it spends above ground.

byDavid Axe

5 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive is more successful than we thought

The Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps has cut across a dangerous Russian salient in the east. All without telling anyone.

byDavid Axe

A Ukrainian soldier carries an FPV drone.

5 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive takes the pressure off Sloviansk

Under strict operational security, the Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps has been counterattacking north of Lyman. For months now.

byDavid Axe

Possible damage to two frigates in Novorossiysk.

6 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine finally hit three Russian Kalibr ships on 12 August. On the 19th, an untouched one hit Kyiv

Prior to 12 August, the Russian Black Sea Fleet had eight warships capable of firing Kalibr cruise missiles. It still has at least four.

byDavid Axe

6 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Russia is trying to get its guns within range of Zaporizhzhia. First it has to take a prison

The Ukrainian 118th Mechanized Brigade blocks any march on Zaporizhzhia City. But a Russian field army aims to disrupt the defense.

byDavid Axe

Ukrainian Navy CB90 assault boats sailing Black Sea patrol operations coastal defense against Russian drones

5 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine may have just lost its first Swedish assault boat—to a Russian jet drone

A Russian Geran-4 caught it near the Kinburn Spit on 12 August. Those boats are what put Ukrainian robots on Russian beaches.

byDavid Axe

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Starlink helped Ukraine pull off Operation Vivaldi. Now Starlink could help Russia take the ground back

Russia still parks its best bombers in the open. Ukraine has spent a year knocking out the air defenses that were supposed to protect them

Russia is losing the Black Sea grain war it started. Its answer is to sink civilian ships off Romania and Bulgaria

Russia is back at Dobropillia a year after it failed there. Now it’s the southern jaw of a pincer on Donbas’s last big free cities

Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps took the lessons of the failed 2023 counteroffensive into Operation Vivaldi. It fought small, and won.

“Supplying Crimea is turning into a nightmare”: Ukrainian drones hit Russian trucks 770 times in September, and winter will make it worse, analyst says

Armored assaults aren’t dead. Robots got the credit, but it was Ukrainian infantry in armored trucks that reversed a year of Russian gains near Lyman

Ukraine fired its first FP-7 ballistic missile in combat. Its maker says next version will do what Ukraine needed since 2022

Ukraine keeps finding ways to replace its MiG-29s. It’s running out of MiG-29s to find

Ukraine is now sending its tanks into battle with drone escorts: they can drive into a Russian kill zone and come back alive

Ukraine retook 240 square km north of Lyman and nobody reported it for three months

Ukraine is working down the short list of ships that shell its cities with cruise missiles. A Neptune reached one of them tied up at its own pier

Ukraine is sending its winning brigades to where the fighting is worst. The 46th just turned up outside Kramatorsk

Desperate to save Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, Ukrainian forces counterattack and reinforce

Ukraine has five ways to stop Russia’s Iskanders. Only one arrives before the strikes on the grid begin

Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive is more successful than we thought

Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive takes the pressure off Sloviansk

Ukraine finally hit three Russian Kalibr ships on 12 August. On the 19th, an untouched one hit Kyiv

Russia is trying to get its guns within range of Zaporizhzhia. First it has to take a prison

Ukraine may have just lost its first Swedish assault boat—to a Russian jet drone

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