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Ukrainian drone Six-hour tank assault, 29 armored vehicles, zero breakthroughs: Russia’s biggest autumn push fails near Volodymyrivka footage shows Russian armored vehicles under attack and engulfed in smoke near Dobropillia on 27 October 2025. Photo: 1st National Guard Corps "Azov"

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Russian Aggression

Six-hour tank assault, 29 armored vehicles, zero breakthroughs: Russia’s biggest autumn push fails near Volodymyrivka

Hoping to exploit poor drone weather, Russian forces launched a two-wave assault near Donetsk Oblast's Dobropillia—and ran straight into mines, bombs, and ambushes.

byYuri Zoria

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Ukrainian troops flush Russian forces from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast’s Yehorivka, raise Ukrainian flag

Dozens of Russian infiltrators were killed as they tried — and failed — to break out of encirclement in Yehorivka, the military says.

byYuri Zoria

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ISW: Putin and Gerasimov keep boasting of sweeping wins in Ukraine—but even Russian milbloggers call them fiction

At a briefing, Gerasimov falsely claimed that Russian troops had encircled thousands of Ukrainian soldiers near Pokrovsk and Kupiansk.

byYuri Zoria

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Kyiv mother and daughter hid in the bathroom to survive — smoke killed them instead as Russia hit their home

Russians killed three people and injured 31 in Kyiv, while elsewhere their attacks left at least five more civilians dead and 18 injured.

byYuri Zoria

ukraine’s 82nd brigade liberated sukhetske donetsk oblast — 44 russians killed 9 captured fierce clash military says · post ukrainian paratroopers raise national flag over rooftop sukhetske-liberated battle north pokrovsk

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Ukraine’s 82nd Brigade liberated Sukhetske in Donetsk Oblast — 44 Russians killed, 9 captured in fierce clash, the military says (video)

The battle north of Pokrovsk loosened Russia’s grip on the city’s northern approaches, marking another tactical win for Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces.

byYuri Zoria

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Mini Bilohorivka moment as six Russian vehicles sink during failed river push in Donetsk Oblast today (video)

A morning assault near Volodymyrivka collapsed when a convoy bogged down in the Kazennyi Torets, and Ukrainian units finished the job with artillery, HIMARS, and drones on 25 October 2025

byYuri Zoria

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Three Russians killed, radios and maps captured — Ukrainian commandos strike from behind (video)

SOF forces entered the Russian rear for intelligence gathering in Donetsk Oblast — but executed a swift and lethal assault before exfiltration.

byYuri Zoria

Ukrainian soldiers raising the Ukrainian flag in the liberated village of Kucheriv Yar, Donetsk Oblast, 22 October, 2025. Screenshot from video.

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Ukrainian paratroopers liberate Donetsk village in daring raid, capturing 50 Russian troops and rescuing trapped civilians

Intercepted Russian orders instructed troops "not to take civilians alive" before retreating.

byBenjamin Murdoch

U.S. President Donald Trump (left) and Russia's ruler Vladimir Putin (right)/ AP PHOTO

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Russia demands full Donbas control in unofficial document to US, contradicting Trump’s freeze proposal

Russia delivered an informal diplomatic document to the US, demanding control of all of Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast and barring NATO troops from Ukraine under any peace deal

byMaria Tril

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Finland’s foreign minister to the West: Ukraine doesn’t need help to surrender — it needs strength to win

Elina Valtonen said Kyiv has all it takes to keep fighting Russia and the West must help it defend, not capitulate.

byYuri Zoria

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivering his evening address on 26 September, 2025

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Zelenskyy rejects Putin’s alleged “Donetsk‑for‑peace” offer reported by Washington Post

Ukraine’s leader insisted the aggressor deserves no gifts, calling for stronger unity and pressure across Europe.

byYuri Zoria

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In call with Trump, Putin demands full control of Donetsk Oblast that he has failed to conquer for 11 years, WP says

The Russian president allegedly suggested swapping partial claims in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson for full control of Donetsk, WP sources stated.

byYuri Zoria

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Russia’s war math: at this pace, full occupation of Ukraine would take 103 years, The Economist says

Despite relentless assaults since May, Russia failed to seize Pokrovsk or any major city on the eastern front.

byYuri Zoria

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Frontline report: Russia unleashes toxic ammonia cloud but fails to save trapped forces near Pokrovsk

Blowing up critical infrastructure to poison the battlefield represented an unprecedented act of desperation, yet the gas only blocked ground reinforcements while drone operators remained unaffected and decimated the relief column.

byReporting from Ukraine

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Oleksandr Syrskyi (center), reviewing a military map with Ukrainian officers in Donetsk Oblast on 4 October 2025

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Ukrainian counterattacks expose Russian command chaos across Pokrovsk front

Three Russian brigades forced to halt operations as coordination failures between army corps turn tactical setbacks into operational disruptions

byMaxim Volovich

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Frontline report: Ukraine replicates “roads of death” success east of Pokrovsk, crushing Russian advance

Under Magyar's command, Ukrainian drone units don't simply destroy vehicles—they maintain what he calls a "minimum monthly kill rate" that must exceed Russia's mobilization capacity, transforming warfare into brutal mathematics.

byReporting from Ukraine

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Russia keeps targeting Ukrainian power grid, causing blackout in Donetsk Oblast and outages in Odesa’s Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi

Russia launched 118 drones, 103 were downed overnight, Ukrainian Air Force reported. Russian attacks killed four people and injured nine in Donetsk Oblast.

byYuri Zoria

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Frontline report: Ukraine’s Serebrianka forest ambush wipes out Russian assault groups before battle even starts

Ukrainian units defending the Lyman axis, at the junction of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, now unleash precision strikes on Russians using predictable forest routes.

byReporting from Ukraine