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Why Russia is importing gasoline made from its own oilTo keep its pumps supplied, Moscow has written India’s gasoline price into its own tax code. -
Ukraine is trying to wreck Russia’s oil fleet without spilling its oil—the Black Sea can’t take another slickUkraine's countershipping campaign risks polluting the fragile Black Sea. Drone operators are trying to spill less oil. -
Russian troops inch toward Lyman. Drones keep delaying the plan.Fedorov's middle-strike drones are throttling the supply lines behind the Russian push. Whether they keep doing it without him is the question hanging over Sloviansk. -
International monitors confirm Russia’s blockade of occupied Oleshky, where the living starve and the dead go unburiedFour months after Euromaidan Press first reported the siege, the UN, Human Rights Watch, ISW, and the OSCE have all confirmed it. An exiled official says 100 bodies lie unburied in the town's hospital basement. -
“They removed the auditor, not the thieves”: why Ukrainians are protesting Zelenskyy’s reshuffleThe entire government has been swapped, yet protests hit Kyiv and 16 more cities only in support of ex-Defense Minister Fedorov -
Ukraine’s government reshuffle followed the letter of the Constitution. But did it follow its spirit?The official paper trail shows who decided first. -
Russia’s port strikes leave Ukraine’s grain with almost nowhere else to goRussia’s strikes have halted Ukraine’s deepwater grain exports—and there’s no way around the damage: one rail line carries almost all of it. -
Ukraine is turning Crimea into an island. It just fired the minister who armed the effortThe same pattern that cost Zaluzhnyi his job in 2024—success, popularity, a Syrskyi clash, a possible rival. -
The Syrskyi feud was not it: why Ukraine really dropped its drone-war ministerAs crowds fill the streets in cities across Ukraine to support the forced-out minister, a deputy air force commander says he joined in 2022 to win the war, not to watch reforms stall. -
One Greek company keeps Russia’s Arctic gas moving—and Athens won’t let the EU touch itDynagas has carried more than 10 million tons of Russian LNG since 2025 across 144 voyages. -
Russia bet 50 vehicles that the drones would miss. The drones did not miss.Russian commanders had banned their own vehicles from these roads, knowing what the drones do to them. Then they lined up 50 and sent them anyway. -
Russia’s fuel crisis has moved from the pump to the harvestAs the fuel crisis deepens, Russia’s regional governors are improvising.Ukrainian drones have driven the country’s oil refining to its lowest level in more than two decades. Rationing has spread to... -
How Ukraine came to build more weapons than it can fundIts top defense-industry chief just resigned after a deadly blast at one of his company’s depots. -
Russia plans to build 120 Banderol missiles in month. Analyst who found it in 2025 says weapon is “nothing outstanding”Russia plans to build 120 Banderol cruise missiles a month, but the factory hasn't hit the target, says Ukrainian military adviser Serhii Beskrestnov. -
Ukraine’s premier listed a record year to the parliament that dismissed herNo one in Kyiv has said why. Her own farewell leaves out the name that would explain it. -
Hungary swapped its pro-Russian prime minister. Yet it is still slowing Ukraine’s path to the EU.Hungary has allowed two stages of Ukraine’s EU talks to open while holding up the other four. Péter Magyar is no Viktor Orbán, but years of anti-Ukraine politics might still make blocking Kyiv safer than helping it. -
The US Army’s former commander in Europe is “withholding applause” for Trump’s Patriot pledge—and expects no interceptors before winter.Ben Hodges is pretty certain Ukraine will build no Patriot interceptors for three to six months. Until then, Ukraine will remain dependent on allied supplies—amid a global interceptor shortage. -
A $50 computer just flew Russia’s newest jet drone into a Ukrainian grain ship—and jamming couldn’t stop itRussia's fast, highly autonomous Geran-4 one-way attack drone is the weapon of choice for strikes on Ukrainian grain ships. -
Russia has the oil. It no longer has the gasoline—so Russians are learning to make their ownUkraine’s drone campaign has cut Russian refining to its lowest level since March 2005—and the diesel Russia can no longer sell is driving world fuel prices to multiyear highs. -
Russia stalled bankruptcy reform for six years—then passed it in two daysRussian companies owe more than the country produces in a year, and a reform frozen since 2020 was cleared by parliament in two days.
