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Hungary unblocks $7.7 billion in EU arms payments after dropping two-year veto on Ukraine aidPrime Minister Péter Magyar's cabinet reversed a Viktor Orbán-era block, with the immediate sum a first tranche of more than €40 billion in queued claims. -
Russia is losing so many trucks it’s now eyeing Cold War scrapHow many more trucks can the Russians lose along Ukraine's highways before they must drag old trucks from long-term storage? -
Ukraine’s vape market is 93% illegal. The trail leads to a sanctioned Russian oligarch.Smuggled from Poland and barely taxed, the shadow trade drains a country at war—and the network behind it ties back to Oleg Boyko. -
Next five years: Rosatom’s “strategic window” to lock in European dependenceThis is part two of a series of three articles exploring Rosatom, its role in the war in Ukraine, and Moscow’s international influence. -
Russia’s monthly land grab in Ukraine has collapsed from hundreds of km² to 14, OSINT data showAs Ukraine paired a battlefield network linking every drone and sensor with strikes deep behind Russian lines, DeepState's monthly tally for May is the smallest in years of Russia's grinding offensive. -
A Putin-list oligarch runs Poland’s vape market. The EU won’t sanction him.Ukraine, Poland, and Australia sanctioned Oleg Boyko. Brussels left him off—as his lawyers move. -
Russia’s $30m terror missile keeps missingIf Russia's Oreshnik missile is a terror weapon, it's not actually a very scary one. It keeps missing and failing. -
Can Russian missiles really decimate Kyiv?Missiles remain a deadly threat but are bottlenecked by production and launch platform availability -
Europe weighs freezing Russia’s oil price cap as the Iran war threatens to loosen itBrussels could override the automatic formula that would otherwise let the ceiling jump from $44.10 to at least $65 a barrel in July, Bloomberg says. -
What keeps Ukraine’s groceries expensive when the summer harvest should make them cheap?Even with the household electricity tariff frozen flat. -
Ukrainian drones learned to shrug off Russian jamming. Now they’re hunting the jammers.Ukraine's Vampire drones are some of its best weapons. Now they're getting even better. -
Twenty armed men capture a village on NATO’s eastern border. What happens next?A Ukrainian frontline commander has thought it through. Europe hasn't. -
Starobilsk incident highlights Ukrainian concerns over civilian risk in deep strikes and limits of wartime verification in occupied areasUkraine said it struck a “Rubicon” command position in occupied Starobilsk, while Russian occupation authorities claimed a dormitory was hit and reported casualties. -
EU approves nearly €2.8 billion for Ukraine after positive assessment of its fourth-quarter 2025 reform progressThe tranche follows the sixth payment of €2.3 billion approved in December 2025 and brings total Ukraine Facility disbursements since 2024 to €26.8 billion. -
The Ukrainian drone detectors that may soon protect everyone elseMeet one Ukrainian company that's trying to give this tech a global reach -
Russians caught putting Pantsirs on rooftops in Moscow in the rain following Ukrainian strikesEvery air defense platform defending Moscow is a platform not defending elsewhere. -
Russian refining output fell 9.2% in April as Ukrainian drone strikes hit fuel plantsMoscow stopped publishing fuel output. Rosstat’s own index registered the drop regardless. -
Not just nuclear power: how Rosatom fuels Russia’s war machineThis is part one of a series of three articles exploring Rosatom, its role in the war in Ukraine, and Moscow’s international influence. -
Ukrainian drones used to burn one tanker. Now they can burn the whole trainOne rocket-armed Fire Point drone could do eight times the damage of the version flying last month. -
Ukrainian operators say their FPV hit Russian truck at record 102 kmBattery technology is being pushed to the hilt by Ukraine's techs and scientists
