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Russia spent 18 months building the road to Sloviansk. Ukraine spent three taking it back

The 3rd Army Corps attacked on 22 May and nobody outside the army reported it until late August. Whether it changes the war is the one thing the analysts do not agree on.

byDavid Axe

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Ukraine is sending its winning brigades to where the fighting is worst. The 46th just turned up outside Kramatorsk

Sloviansk and Kramatorsk are the last two big cities in the Donbas that Russia does not hold. The 46th Airmobile Brigade left the southeast in early July and reached them before anyone outside the army knew.

byDavid Axe

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Desperate to save Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, Ukrainian forces counterattack and reinforce

A Russian pincer is slowly closing around the last two big free cities in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. Winter will be a brief reprieve.

byDavid Axe

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive is more successful than we thought

The Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps has cut across a dangerous Russian salient in the east. All without telling anyone.

byDavid Axe

SBU officers in camouflage and tactical gear, seen from behind during an operation.

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One tracked tank repairs, one marked artillery, one aimed bombs at civilians—all three got 15 years

Ukraine says two of the men came to Russian intelligence's notice through their own comments in chat groups, and the third through a relative working for Moscow's domestic security service.

byYuri Zoria

A Ukrainian soldier carries an FPV drone.

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive takes the pressure off Sloviansk

Under strict operational security, the Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps has been counterattacking north of Lyman. For months now.

byDavid Axe

The aftermath of the destruction following one of the strikes in Sloviansk

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Russia grinds up the eastern approach to Sloviansk after its northeastern push stalled

Russian troops pushed to the edge of Pyskunivka and infiltrated Mykolaivka, the village that would give them a dry approach to the city.

byTaisiia Vivdych

Soldiers of the 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade’s Fox Crew prepare for a logistics run near the Kramatorsk–Kostiantynivka road in Donetsk Oblast. The unit, once focused on anti-tank warfare, now uses strike drones to disrupt Russian supply lines. Credit: 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade / Fox Crew.

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Ukrainian intelligence units will not help: Analyst warns that once Russia breaks into Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, reinforcing them only delays inevitable

Russian forces are 12 to 13 km from Sloviansk and Kramatorsk and could begin infiltrating the fortress-belt cities by late 2026.

byOlena Mukhina

An apartment building hit in a Russian strike on Kostiantynivka on the evening of 13 August, 2026. Photo: Donetsk Region Prosecutor's Office

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Russia drops eight FAB-250 bombs on Kramatorsk, killing one and injuring 18

Prosecutors opened a war crimes investigation into the glide-bomb strike, the latest in a series that has hit residential blocks across Donetsk Oblast.

byStanovych Solomiia

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Russia squeezes the flanks, then infiltrates the middle. Around Kramatorsk, it can’t do both

Russia knows how to take a Ukrainian city. Around Kramatorsk it does not have the infantry to run the method.

byDavid Axe

A drone operator from the 81st Air Mobile Brigade.

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Russia is assaulting the gateway to Sloviansk. Ukraine’s 81st Brigade is holding it nearly alone

Mykolaivka is the biggest obstacle between Russian troops and Sloviansk, one of two big free cities in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast.

byDavid Axe

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Take Lyman, then Sloviansk, then Kramatorsk: Russia’s plan is still stuck on step one, the Ukrainian military says

Russian commanders treat the town as the necessary launchpad, yet their infantry cannot hold ground inside it, according to the report.

byYuri Zoria

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ISW: First Pokrovsk, then Huliaipole—now Russia points its logistics-killing air campaign at the Fortress Belt

The 2025 version took months to set up advances, and this one is expected to move just as slowly.

byYuri Zoria

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Can Ukrainian forces save Sloviansk and Kramatorsk?

Sloviansk and Kramatorsk are the last big free cities in Donetsk Oblast. Can Ukrainian forces save them from a creeping Russian advance?

byDavid Axe

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ISW: Russia’s long push toward Sloviansk gains no ground as Ukraine counterattacks

Its assaults across northern Donetsk Oblast produced no confirmed advances in the newest DC-based think tank's war assessment, an offensive now grinding into its fifth month.

byYuri Zoria

report out of control by the truth hounds

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Russian War Crimes

Precision missiles hit the coordinates. Investigators ask who was still standing there

A new framework names the pattern in four Russian strikes—and aims at Russia’s standard legal defense.

byPeeter Helme

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Russia is bombing Kostiantynivka to rubble while pushing its infantry into it on foot

Artillery and guided glide bombs hit the city as small Russian groups try to dig into whatever buildings they can reach.

byYuri Zoria

A T-72B3A the moment before a Ukrainian drone strikes.

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Russia took the cages off its newest tanks. The new Arena-M shield bought them a few minutes.

The Russians' new Arena-M systems shoots tiny projectiles at incoming enemy drones. But it didn't save a rare Russian tank assault this week.

byDavid Axe

Russian potemkin flags photo ops planted in Lyman

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Russians keep raising “Potemkin flags” in Lyman. They’re no closer to capturing it.

Scattered reports of Russian flags flying over Lyman don't indicate new Russian positions in the front-line city. Lyman holds.

byDavid Axe

Ruins in Kostyntynivka, Donetsk Oblast, May 2025.

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

After eight months, Kostiantynivka is falling. Why some Ukrainian commanders would rather fight the open fields behind it

Russia's first strategic win of the year is a ruined city—and Ukraine's drone-centric defense may not miss it the way it once would have.

byDavid Axe

Kramatorsk

Russia spent 18 months building the road to Sloviansk. Ukraine spent three taking it back

Ukraine is sending its winning brigades to where the fighting is worst. The 46th just turned up outside Kramatorsk

Desperate to save Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, Ukrainian forces counterattack and reinforce

Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive is more successful than we thought

One tracked tank repairs, one marked artillery, one aimed bombs at civilians—all three got 15 years

Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive takes the pressure off Sloviansk

Russia grinds up the eastern approach to Sloviansk after its northeastern push stalled

Ukrainian intelligence units will not help: Analyst warns that once Russia breaks into Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, reinforcing them only delays inevitable

Russia drops eight FAB-250 bombs on Kramatorsk, killing one and injuring 18

Russia squeezes the flanks, then infiltrates the middle. Around Kramatorsk, it can’t do both

Russia is assaulting the gateway to Sloviansk. Ukraine’s 81st Brigade is holding it nearly alone

Take Lyman, then Sloviansk, then Kramatorsk: Russia’s plan is still stuck on step one, the Ukrainian military says

ISW: First Pokrovsk, then Huliaipole—now Russia points its logistics-killing air campaign at the Fortress Belt

Can Ukrainian forces save Sloviansk and Kramatorsk?

ISW: Russia’s long push toward Sloviansk gains no ground as Ukraine counterattacks

Precision missiles hit the coordinates. Investigators ask who was still standing there

Russia is bombing Kostiantynivka to rubble while pushing its infantry into it on foot

Russia took the cages off its newest tanks. The new Arena-M shield bought them a few minutes.

Russians keep raising “Potemkin flags” in Lyman. They’re no closer to capturing it.

After eight months, Kostiantynivka is falling. Why some Ukrainian commanders would rather fight the open fields behind it

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