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An RFI investigation places more than 200 Ukrainian military specialists at three Libyan sites with Mediterranean access, on the same day Cairo pledged to stop buying Russian-supplied grain from occupied Ukrainian territory and purchase Ukrainian wheat instead.

Meanwhile, leaked transcripts revealed Hungary's foreign minister not only removed 72 Russian entities from EU sanctions but asked Moscow to write his arguments for delisting more.

On the day Russia spurned a Ukrainian ceasefire offer and demanded Donbas in two months, Kyiv accused Moscow of deliberately redirecting drones into Finland and the Baltic states — while continuing strikes on the Ust-Luga oil port for the second consecutive day.

Ukraine absorbed more than 3,000 drone strikes in seven days, its forces set Ust-Luga ablaze again with yet another Baltic port strike, and Zelenskyy arrived in Amman to sign the Gulf region's latest defense partnership — all while Atesh partisans were burning Russian electronic warfare towers to punch corridors for Ukrainian drones deep inside Russian territory.

From Baltic ports to Yaroslavl fuel hubs: Ukraine's drone and missile campaign is rewriting the rules of economic warfare.

Drones, icebreakers, and interceptors: Ukraine's precision campaign reshapes the war's economic front.

Ukraine struck the KINEF refinery in a third consecutive hit on Russia's northwestern energy corridor, as Britain's navy gained authority to board sanctioned shadow fleet vessels. Zelenskyy also revealed that Washington is conditioning any security guarantees on Ukraine surrendering all of Donbas.

Ukraine's long-range campaign against Russian territory reaches a new geographic milestone. The strikes are part of a broader offensive that has shut down 40% of Russian oil exports.

Saturday's Kyiv–Washington meeting, a shadow fleet seized in the Mediterranean, and a 71% Ukrainian public convinced peace talks will fail: the war's diplomatic track is as contested as its front lines.

Russia's general of "meat assaults" heads to Sumy.

Ukraine is deploying 201 drone specialists to the Gulf, opening terabytes of battlefield data to allied AI trainers, and launching its first AI war lab — while drone battalions hold three Russian armies west of Pokrovsk and counterattacks in Dnipropetrovsk burn through Russia's operational reserves.

Zelenskyy says the supply chains are known — and dismantling them is the only way to reduce attacks when air defenses can't cover everything.

F-16s meanwhile intercepted every cruise missile in a 498-drone-and-missile overnight barrage.

A 30-day US waiver for Russian oil, a Swedish boarding of a shadow-fleet tanker, and intelligence that Moscow plans to re-flag 80 vessels tell the same story: the Western sanctions architecture is under its sharpest stress since the war began, and both sides are moving fast to exploit the gap.

As Russia industrializes drone warfare and eyes a six-figure drone force by April, Ukraine is opening its front-line combat AI database to allies.

Ukraine pushes Russia back 400 km² in Dnipropetrovsk, and destroys the radar and missile factory meant to stop it.