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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. -
Russia poured 46% of its budget into the military in early 2026 even as revenue fell — ISWMoscow promised to cut war spending in 2026. It raised it 30% instead, according to an expert's assessment. -
Russia tried to surround Lyman. Now its own salient is getting squeezed.Lyman blocks the northern route to Kramatorsk and Sloviansk. Ukrainian counterattacks are protecting the city. -
Russia’s oil production falls for sixth straight month as Ukrainian drone strikes hit storage and transportCompanies redirected crude to restored Baltic and Black Sea ports, lifting exports from 3.17 to 3.64 million barrels a day, while the extraction tax base underneath kept contracting. -
Europe can legally quit Russian LNG today. It keeps choosing not to.Since October, every long-term buyer has had legal cover to walk away from Russian LNG. Only Germany has even asked. -
ISW: Russia gains ground in Kostiantynivka but Fortress Belt stays out of reachRussia's strategy of stacking armies on one Donetsk Oblast city is producing slow infiltration, not the operational breakthrough Moscow needs to crack the fortified chain, ISW says. -
Ukraine’s drones now have Russian convoys riding out with four gun trucks and a prayerUntil last month the trucks rolled out unarmed—now 71% of them have vanished from the M-14 entirely. -
As UGV adoption soars, Ukraine must write the playbook for saving soldiers’ livesNumber of units using UGVs doubled from 117 to 230 in six months -
Ukraine is droning Russian ships. The goal: to create supply bottlenecks on land.Ukraine's drones aren't just attacking Russia's supply trucks. They're now hitting Russia's supply ships, too. -
Newly-announced Litavr interceptor is a model microcosm of Ukraine’s drone innovation programsEach feature is an example of where Ukraine's interceptor industry is headed. -
Russia tells its regions to raise taxes on residents and businesses to plug a record budget holeThe combined regional gap grew fivefold from 2024 and almost eightfold from 2023, with the tax service now pressing governors to find more revenue. -
Russians pulled 30-year record of cash from banks in May. Central Bank now tracks monthly cash limits, can freeze “suspicious” withdrawalsAnalyst cites geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty, internet outages disrupting online banking, and central bank rate cuts as driving the cash flight.
