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“A warning to companies that remain”: Russia takes control of Nestlé and Auchan’s assets – companies that stayed in Russia following the full-scale invasion of UkraineThe companies had been warned that remaining in Russia could expose their investments to seizure as the Kremlin increasingly uses foreign-owned businesses as leverage. B4Ukraine says companies should leave while they still can. -
“I can travel back to Finland and be safe. That is a luxury”: Sanna Marin on the Russian strike that stopped her train from KyivThe former Finnish prime minister has visited Ukraine around ten times since the full-scale invasion. This trip, she says, had more air-raid alarms than any of them, and a Russian drone hit the train travelling beside hers to the Polish border. -
The West has tried everything except ending the warDiplomacy, sanctions, 200 rounds of talks—Russia used all of it to buy time. Diesel prices in America are just the tsunami's latest wave. -
Russian spies ran a campaign against Kyiv on Anthropic’s Claude, and the AI chatbot’s maker caught them at itThe operators automated phishing, intrusion, and data theft, leaving the human to refine the workflows. -
Ukraine retook 240 square km north of Lyman and nobody reported it for three monthsThe 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. -
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 pierDrones went in with the missile, and the general staff counts three more vessels and the port's fuel-oil storage hit the same night. -
One Russian drone held up seven flights in Moldova, Zelenskyy’s trip to Norway for King Harald V’s funeral among themThe drone crossed Moldova twice that afternoon, and controllers shut the airspace over the center of the country for more than an hour, until after it came down in the north. -
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1659: Fedorov returns from the US with plans for Ukraine’s largest defense-tech fundSeparately, mine contamination has injured nearly 1,700 civilians since the invasion began, with farmers hit hardest. -
Ukraine’s prosecutor general resigns as the watchdogs he was appointed to leash close inHe is the third powerful figure they've brought down. What looks like a government in crisis is a state where impunity at the top is ending. -
Ukraine is sending its winning brigades to where the fighting is worst. The 46th just turned up outside KramatorskSloviansk 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. -
A US-Russia deal won’t end the war. It will start the next oneTwo American processes are converging on the same point: the cost to Russia of attacking NATO. A peace on Moscow's terms lowers the political price; a US troop drawdown lowers the military one. Moscow is waiting to read both before it moves. -
Ukraine’s Swedish radar planes have flown inside Russian missile range for six months. None has been shot down.Kyiv said nothing until this week. The planes can see 450 km, and Russia's best missile flies nearly as far. -
Ukraine put its own peace proposals on the table as two US envoys reached Kyiv for the first timeSecurity guarantees topped the Ukrainian list, and the day's diplomacy ran in consecutive sessions that widened to include three European governments' security chiefs. -
Ukraine logged impacts at 11 sites while the American peace delegation was still in MoscowThe strike package mixed jet-powered attack drones, decoys, and cruise missiles across several oblasts. -
Ukraine is running short of its best missiles for hunting Russia’s jet drones. Now MiG-29s are firing 1970s weaponsThe R-73 was the missile for the job. Ukraine has burned through enough of them to bring back a weapon that was obsolete in 2022. -
Ukraine is taking 1980s Leopards from across Europe and giving them radar-guided anti-drone guns and gunner-less turretsThirty-one get a Belgian turret the crew doesn't sit in. Others become radar-guided drone killers, built in Rome and paid for with frozen Russian money. -
Russia destroyed most of Ukraine’s big warehouses. Now the country is scrambling to build small ones everywhereWhether they can do it before winter, and at what cost to prices, is the question now hanging over the country's food supply. -
Desperate to save Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, Ukrainian forces counterattack and reinforceA Russian pincer is slowly closing around the last two big free cities in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. Winter will be a brief reprieve. -
NATO vows to defend every inch. Svalbard is where Russia plans to prove it won’t.The CIA chief’s visit to Moscow gave rise to warnings that Russia may be preparing to strike the Baltics. However, Russia has an easier target for the goal of paralyzing NATO. -
Ukraine spent three years learning to catch Russian drones—so Russia made them fly fasterRussia's jet-powered drones don't beat Ukraine's missile defense. They threaten the cheap layer that keeps it affordable—and they are turning the war into a contest over reaction time.
