Russia masses 100,000 troops to crush Ukraine’s defenders in Donetsk’s crucial battle
While Kostiantynivka holds, Moscow’s brutal summer offensive surges forward, threatening to sever Ukraine’s eastern front.
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Ukrainian soldier reveals what it’s like to face Russian convicts from Butyrka prison in battle
Fighter Anton Shket endured 17 days of assaults by Russian "zeks" and foreign troops.
“We’re standing, and we will keep standing,” Ukrainian pilot dismisses talk of peace with Russia as illusion
While Kremlin boasts advances and claims Ukraine as its own, frontline pilot Apostol calls for reinforcements.
“West keeps trying to bury Russia, but they will die themselves soon,” says Putin in new speech
While offering peace talks, the Kremlin leader lashes out at the West.
Russia reportedly hides its own war dead in Ukraine’s body swaps
Kyiv says Moscow is slipping its own soldiers into exchanges meant for fallen Ukrainians, complete with uniforms, dog tags, and ID papers, possibly to dodge compensation to Russian families.
Russia tries to break through to northern Ukraine’s Sumy city amid ceasefire talks
This comes as Russia looks to be kicking off its summer offensive, with fresh assaults popping up in Sumy and Donetsk oblasts.
Putin’s army hammers Ukrainian trenches near Pokrovsk—the final battle for Donbas may have just begun
Pokrovsk was always the objective. Now, analysts say, it’s the main effort.
Ukraine builds its own Mad Max unit to outgun Russian motorcycle swarms
Facing Russia’s deadly new doctrine of high-speed assaults, Kyiv trains its troops to strike and vanish.
Putin plans to capture Donbas in 2025—despite not capturing it in 2022, 2023, or 2024
Russia’s strategy hasn’t shifted, but its deadline has. Analysts doubt the same tactics will yield different results.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1176: Western sanctions stall despite Russia’s dismissal of ceasefire
Russian President Vladimir Putin refused to attend peace talks in Istanbul today, sending instead the same delegation that demanded Ukraine's surrender in 2022.
Ukraine’s “Steel Hundred” decimates more Russian troops than most European armies have in total
Despite suffering "absolutely catastrophic losses" in ten months of brutal fighting, Russian forces have failed to gain a single kilometer near Toretsk.
Ukrainian military says Russia launches “summer offensive” under cover of talks
Moscow is advancing from at least three fronts.
Trapped Ukrainian soldier survives 24 hours of hell in Urozhaine
The Russians thought he was finished.
“You run, they knock you down, and beat you with rebar”: Ukrainian POW’s 3-year hell in Russian captivity
Russia tortured him for 1,000 days. Now he is free, but his life is gone.
Ukrainian soldiers break the spell: Russian wands, invisibility cloaks fail on Lyman front
From black plastic “invisibility coats” to fear-fueled mind games, Russia is betting on battlefield magic. Ukrainian defenders, grounded in reality, are tearing the illusion apart.
Russian soldiers who looted Nova Kakhovka residents vanish as pro-Ukrainian partisans strengthen their network in Kherson Oblast
Two Russian National Guard soldiers notorious for systematically robbing Nova Kakhovka civilians have mysteriously disappeared from occupation checkpoints, creating panic among Russian commanders.
Ukrainian forces destroy Russian armored column in Donetsk, eliminate small infantry troops in attempt to reach Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
The invaders lost at least twelve pieces of equipment in failed attempt to advance toward Dnipropetrovsk Oblast border.
ISW: Trump’s Witkoff amplifies Russian claims about Ukraine
The envoy uncritically echoes Russian claims regarding Ukraine, repeating discredited narratives while overlooking historical context and legal facts.
Russo-Ukrainian War, day 1110: Ukrainian forces break through in Toretsk
Meanwhile, Germany agreed to supply 100 IRIS-T missiles to Ukraine amid the US aid halt.
Ukrainian forces eliminate 80% of Russian troops during gas pipeline infiltration attempt
Ukrainian airborne assault brigade ambushed Russian forces attempting to replicate Avdiivka tactics by using underground pipeline infrastructure, trapping and destroying the group as they emerged from the tunnel in a planned operation based on intelligence gathering.