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Ukraine’s economy posted its sharpest contraction since the wartime recovery beganRussian strikes drove Ukraine's sharpest economic contraction since the recovery began, and forecasters have cut the year to near zero. -
Belarus’s exiled opposition hands Ukraine a 30-page file on how Minsk is being readied for warThe dossier reached Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha's desk and lays out eight ways the regime has rebuilt the country into a launch platform for Russia, the report states. -
Ukraine has a million wounded veterans—and the funding to train forty as deminersMaksym Dobrianskyi lost a leg to a Russian mine, then joined a small, donor-funded effort turning Ukraine’s war-wounded into the workforce its recovery needs. -
Ukraine’s $50,000 drone just did what only $500,000 munitions couldUkrainian drone-maker Fire Point has tweaked its iconic FP-1 drone to travel three times as far as before. -
Dust and demining in Lviv Oblast—where the future of clearing the world’s most mined country meets the county fairA day at the country’s flagship robot-demining showcase in Lviv Oblast, where clearing the most heavily mined country on earth looked a bit like a county fair with explosions. -
Russia sent quad bikes to clear a minefield. Ukraine’s drones did the rest.Mines blast Russian assault groups from below. To clear a path, one Russian field army modified an all-terrain vehicle. -
World draughts readmits Belarus. Its president sees Russia next as soon as the war endsHalf the game’s best players are gone, and the level has collapsed, says Janek Mäggi—and a small federation cannot set its own foreign policy. -
Russian forces depend on Crimea. Ukraine is turning it into an island.“Crimea is the center of gravity of this war for the Russians” -
What does Russia do when sanctions strand ten ice-class tankers? It offers to buy themNovatek’s Singapore arm is negotiating for ten ice-class carriers it has struggled to build at home. -
“Poland and Ukraine need each other more than their leaders admit”— a Polish advocate for Ukraine on why the memory feud helps MoscowPolish journalist Jerzy Wójcik, Sestry.eu co-founder, on what the UPA row is costing Ukrainians in Poland -
Ukraine’s newest drones don’t need Starlink. Russia spends $1.5 million to jam it anyway.Onboard AI lets the newest drones find their own targets—nothing for a jammer to break. -
Russia’s biggest oil company stopped selling gasoline in canisters nationwide after Ukraine’s strikes. It blames “seasonal demand”Rosneft is capping drivers at 90 liters a fill. -
Ukrainian drones adopt focused antennas to slip by Russian detectionReinforces connection and makes drones harder to clock -
Russia hides its cruise missiles inside drone swarms. A handful of bombers do the rest.A Tu-22M3 crash in Irkutsk exposes a darker paradox: Russia's bomber fleet keeps shrinking, but Russia's bombing keeps getting smarter. -
Russians deploy massive $1.5M Starlink jammers, Ukrainians are blowing them upBulky, powerful, flammable -
Russia quietly lets refiners sell lower-grade Euro-3 fuel as drone strikes squeeze supplyA rule eased since last autumn now allows gasoline to contain 15 times the EU sulfur limit, as rationing spreads across Russia. -
Fuel shortages reach Moscow and St. Petersburg as Ukraine’s strikes squeeze Russian refiningFilling-station limits, jet-fuel curbs, and farmers short of diesel now span over 25 Russian regions. -
Ukraine’s newest Abrams brigade just built the “dumbest” tank cage of the war. In 2026, that barely matters.The 160th Mechanized Brigade is an odd choice to operate some of Ukraine's approximately 50 surviving M-1 tanks. -
Russia won’t start a nuclear war. It might cause a nuclear disaster.For the first time in history, a major war is being fought around 15 nuclear reactors. The West fears a Russian strike; the real danger is the disaster it has chosen not to see. -
Russia may soon have more tanks than pre-war. It just can’t use them.To do it, Russia revived "previously unrecoverable" Soviet engines. The drones that destroyed the originals haven't gone anywhere.
