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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. -
Russia keeps striking Ukraine’s energy system. Winter resilience plans are less than half completeUkraine is racing to shield heat, water, and rail from Russian strikes—but new locomotives will not arrive before 2027. -
Ukraine has five ways to stop Russia’s Iskanders. Only one arrives before the strikes on the grid beginIt means finding a launcher in a forest during the twenty minutes it spends above ground. -
A rare Ukrainian Bulat tank turned up in a brigade that never had themUkraine wanted 400 of the up-armored T-64s and built about 80. Nobody can say how the 57th Motorized Brigade got one. -
Russia drove most ships from Ukraine’s ports. Now its drones are hunting the trainsBy late August, Ukraine had exported only a third of its normal volume of farm goods. Russia damaged more than 250 locomotives in six months. -
Shares in Russia’s second-largest bank hit record low as Wildberries-linked offering price holds steadyVTB sought access to Wildberries’ 80 million customers. After drone strikes hit the retailer’s warehouses, Moscow considered making the bank central to a support plan. -
Fifth drone-related NORSI shutdown in under five months leaves all major Lukoil refineries offlineRussia’s second-largest gasoline producer is offline as Moscow orders fuel redistribution and regional authorities tighten sales limits. -
Glide bomb then infiltrate. This is Russia’s new way of war.Russia's old tactics involved artillery and tanks. After four years of fighting, it's all about glide bombs and infiltrators. -
Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive is more successful than we thoughtThe Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps has cut across a dangerous Russian salient in the east. All without telling anyone. -
Frontline Rolls: Ukrainian soldiers document their lives at the front on filmThe 2025 project is now a photobook and traveling exhibition after winning two international photography awards. -
US C-17 spends 8½ hours in Moscow during first CIA chief visit since 2021Washington reportedly asked Kyiv to pause strikes on Moscow and St. Petersburg while John Ratcliffe held undisclosed talks with Russian security officials. -
Ukraine fires state bank chair after alleged $3.3 million bail-laundering schemeThe government and central bank also moved against Sense Bank’s CEO and financial monitoring chief while reviewing the bank’s entire supervisory board. -
Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive takes the pressure off SlovianskUnder strict operational security, the Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps has been counterattacking north of Lyman. For months now. -
Russia turns failed drone defenses into grounds for state control of company assetsRussia can now take control of a company’s property and shares if it fails to protect key infrastructure from drones—even when the controller is foreign. -
Ukraine escaped the empire in 1991. The empire struck back.It took 22 years of Moscow holding the strings, and then an invasion, to make Ukrainians fight for the real thing. -
Why did Ozon fall as much as 29% while Russia’s market lost 2.9%?After five weeks of strikes on privately held Wildberries, attacks on listed Ozon gave investors a direct price for warehouse risk. -
Russia’s thermobaric launchers used to just drive up and fire. Now they move one at a time, in steel boxes built to stop Ukrainian dronesUkraine has knocked out at least 36 of them. Twenty-seven burned outright.
