‘We detect and destroy everything’: Ukraine’s drone battalions hold off three Russian armies west of Pokrovsk
Regiment holding west of Pokrovsk says it targets Russian supply routes and staging areas as pressure toward Hryshyne intensifies.
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Hryshyne clearing operations continue as Russia tries to turn occupied Pokrovsk into a launchpad for the next advance
The 7th Airborne Assault Corps reported the two units are conducting search-and-strike operations in Hryshyne.
Ukraine’s drones killed a Tor in Donetsk. Then a Grad in Zaporizhzhia. Same day.
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces carried out both strikes in coordination with the Center for Deep Strikes.
Russia is deploying knockoffs of Ukraine’s Vampire heavy bomber drones — and the 81st Brigade has already shot down five
The heavy hexacopters — the type Russian troops themselves nicknamed "Baba Yaga" — have been appearing over the Sloviansk axis for several weeks now, with more expected.
“The era of Russian armored assaults is over”: Ukraine’s drones stopped a Russian column near Lyman – then chased it into retreat to finish the job
The Third Army Corps says coordinated drone-artillery strikes have made Russia's armored assault tactics obsolete near Lyman.
Russia is preparing a spring offensive in Donetsk, Zelenskyy warns after frontline visit
Ukraine's president toured frontline brigades, awarded soldiers, and promised to address operational shortfalls.
A Ukrainian drone operator explains Russia’s spring advantage — and the two things that can neutralize it
Russian infantry gets a reliable seasonal advantage on the Donetsk front every spring, when foliage strips quadcopters of their battlefield effectiveness.
Russian forces massing reserves near Pokrovsk — Ukraine’s East grouping is tracking the pre-offensive buildup
The task force has flagged intensifying airstrikes and fresh troop concentrations as indicators of an imminent Russian escalation.
Russia struck two trains within 24 hours — and Ukrzaliznytsia says rolling stock is now a primary target
A Russian drone hit a train in Mykolaiv, while a second drone narrowly missed a passenger locomotive on the Dnipro–Kovel route — part of a campaign averaging six railway strikes per day since the start of March.
ISW: Russia’s command missed every deadline since Kyiv in 2022, now wants Odesa — Ukraine meanwhile gained 90 km² in two weeks
Ukrainian forces liberated more ground than they lost in the last two weeks of February — disrupting, ISW assesses, Russia's entire timetable for a planned Spring-Summer 2026 offensive before it could get off the ground.
Russia’s Starlink replacement is giving away its positions — Ukrainian brigade tracks drone pilots by their Wi-Fi antennas
Ukraine's 59th Brigade soldier says Russia's Wi-Fi alternatives require clear line-of-sight placement, making every antenna a marker for a drone operator position or EW station.
Russia’s direct assaults near Myrnohrad are failing. The quad bike flanking runs aren’t going much better
Ukraine's 79th Brigade reported a shift to northeast-southwest encirclement attempts using quad bikes — easy targets for FPVs.
Ukraine strikes the eyes of Russia’s air defense – two S-300 radar stations destroyed in occupied Donetsk
Overnight campaign also hit ammunition depots, fuel stores, and drone command posts across three oblasts.
Ukraine hits occupied Luhansk oil depot for the second time in five days, sparking massive fire
Defense forces also struck fuel warehouses near Mariupol, Novotoretske, and Koptieve and a Russian drone control point in Kherson Oblast the same night, the Ukrainian General Staff reported.
Ukraine sentences FSB agent to 15 years for guiding Russian bombs onto Pokrovsk
Woman drove and walked near front lines, sending Google Maps screenshots to her handler
ISW: Russia appears to have seized Pokrovsk after two-year battle – but gains stall beyond the ruins
Ukrainian forces not observed in the town since late January, ISW says.
One kilometer from Donetsk, a Russian Tor air defense system was hunting Ukrainian drones — until drones hunted it
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces destroyed two Tors overnight and set an oil depot ablaze in occupied Luhansk, where the fire was still burning six hours later
Ukrainian ground drone takes direct FPV hit – still evacuates two wounded soldiers near Pokrovsk
Conventional vehicle evacuation too risky under constant Russian FPV drone activity.
Bilateral deals for Washington, maximalist war aims for Moscow — ISW maps the Kremlin’s two-track play
While Lavrov blamed Ukraine and the EU and railed against Western security guarantees, Kremlin officials were at the same time calling on Washington to lift “illegal” sanctions and calculate the price of frozen US–Russian commerce.
One night, two of Russia’s scarcest military assets gone — Ka-27 helicopter and S-300VM SAM launcher
Ukraine hit the naval helicopter near Kamyshly in occupied Crimea and destroyed the air defense launcher near Mariupol, while also striking troop concentrations, logistics warehouses in Donetsk, and a communications node.