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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.

Ukraine absorbed nearly 10% of all global arms imports between 2021 and 2025 — up from just 0.1% five years earlier — as at least 36 countries coordinated to replace what Russia tried to destroy, according to a new SIPRI fact sheet. On the same day that data landed, Ukrainian drones destroyed a Russian Tor air defense system in Donetsk Oblast and a Grad rocket launcher in Zaporizhzhia. Hungary, meanwhile, is holding $82 million seized from Ukraine's state bank at gunpoint, with no named suspect in the criminal case it launched to justify keeping the money.

Ukraine's president toured the Donetsk front and sounded the alarm over a looming Russian offensive — even as Ukrainian forces dismantled an entire Russian air defense "zoo" in a single night and brought 500 prisoners of war home in a landmark exchange.

Merz takes Ukraine's front-line map to Trump's Oval Office.

Zelenskyy warns the US-Iran conflict could starve Patriot supplies just as Russia fires 60 Iskanders a month, while surging oil prices hand Moscow its first on-target budget revenues in months.

Russia's new Izdelie-30 cruise missile, meanwhile, was found to contain components from the US, Switzerland, China, and the Netherlands.

Zelenskyy releases the full toll of Russia's winter campaign as Ukraine strikes back, destroying two S-300 radar stations and hitting depots across three oblasts.

Intercepted communications revealed the dysfunction spreading through Russian command structures, with officers hurling threats and obscenities at soldiers who still refused to advance.

Talks to reconvene in early March with heads-of-state summit as the goal, while the IMF drops its most controversial conditions and greenlights a four-year program with a $1.5 bn first tranche.

Ukraine's deep-strike capabilities hit a milestone as the Flamingo struck Russia's Iskander facility, anti-drone net installation tripled in speed, and a new UK factory began producing 1,000 battlefield drones monthly.

EU leaders converged on Kyiv on the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the heads of nine nations vowing that the bloc would "not back down" in its support for Ukraine.

Hungary blocks $106 billion EU loan and sanctions as World Bank puts Ukraine's reconstruction bill at $588 billion.