Ukraine finds Russia’s Geran drones fitted with a compass that works through GPS jamming, but Western electronics still at their core
Ukraine is also studying a new jamming device, and the findings go into its sanctions work.
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Licensed, not banned: what China’s new rules mean for the parts inside Russia’s Shahed-type drones
Ukraine’s sanctions commissioner says Geran engines are on Beijing’s updated list and sees an opening for Kyiv.
Ukraine intercepts nearly 60% of Russia’s Geran-4 jet drones, General Staff says, as Kyiv races to counter evolving threat
Ukraine’s interception rate reaches 80% during some attacks, as F-16s, Mirage jets, mobile fire groups, and interceptor drones help counter Russia’s jet-powered attacks.
A modem from a Russian drone led reporters to its Chinese maker—which invoiced 500 for Russia’s drone plant
Posing as a Russian military supplier, journalists got a $2.87 million invoice, three bank accounts, and no pushback on military use.
Russia replaces its missiles as fast as it fires them, Ukrainian intelligence says. Its drone order this year tops 100,000
HUR calls the order a systematic bet on exhausting Ukraine’s air defense.
Romania downs two Russian jet drones near Sulina, days before NATO allies meet on Black Sea security
Romania’s Defense Ministry released cockpit images of the shoot-down as allies prepare to discuss deterrence at a special session Romania requested.
Fewer targets, more waves: jet-powered Gerans partly free Russia to concentrate missiles, ISW says
The faster drones break through Ukraine's air defenses more reliably, and ISW expects the same strike pattern in Russia's winter campaign against Ukraine's energy.
Turkey’s Korkut guns now shoot down Russian drones over Ukraine. Almost half of the jet-powered Shaheds still get through
Russia launched about as many of the fast ones as slow ones in September, by one analyst's count, and its winter assault on the power grid is still ahead.
The US has until 18 October to choose its Russia sanctions targets—if any. Kyiv’s wish list leads with the firms feeding Russia’s Starlink clone
At the top: Russian firms making parts for Moscow's Starlink rival, still untouched by US sanctions.
Russia’s mass drone attacks on Ukraine have a goal—likely Ukraine’s capitulation by spring 2027, ISW says
Until his new theory of victory has played out, Putin is unlikely to soften his demands or enter serious ceasefire talks, according to ISW.
For years Ukraine could jam or switch off Russia’s battlefield comms. Rassvet may be the first it can’t
Sanctioning the firm behind Russia's Starlink won't stop it. It can make every satellite slower and costlier to build—and the clock is short.
Russia’s secret drone math: one Tatarstan plant could yield 28,000 more drone bodies a year
Leaked Rosatom documents describe a Tatarstan carbon fiber plant that could lift Russia's Shahed-type drone output 78% by 2029.
Russian drones killed a man and injured eight in Kyiv, hitting two gas stations
The overnight wave sent 200 drones at Ukraine, and the capital's filling stations have become a recurring target this month.
Russia built five more halls for the drones it assembles using Chinese parts to hit Ukrainian cities
The nightly waves that reach Kyiv and the western border regions mostly begin on the assembly lines inside this zone.
Russia strikes passenger train near Polish border as drone swarms reach deeper into western Ukraine
Russia’s attacks on railways and border crossings are putting civilian travel at growing risk. Poland’s Donald Tusk warned days earlier that Moscow could target Ukraine’s crossings with Poland.
Money, not engineering, is what stands between Ukraine and Russia’s fastest drones, Zelenskyy says
Dozens of firms are chasing the problem, but nobody has funded production at the scale the nightly waves demand.
Can’t intercept the missiles? Hit the factories—Ukraine’s other way to stop Russia’s ballistic missiles
Kyiv's US Patriots are all but gone as Russia builds ~100 of its deadliest missiles a month. Ukraine's fix: a $700,000 homemade interceptor.
One Russian drone held up seven flights in Moldova, Zelenskyy’s trip to Norway for King Harald V’s funeral among them
The drone crossed Moldova twice that afternoon, and controllers shut the airspace over the center of the country for more than an hour, until after it came down in the north.
Ukraine is testing four new drone interceptors as Russia floods its skies with faster Gerans
Kyiv is racing to scale new defenses after Russia used more than 2,500 jet-powered drones in August alone.
Russia’s attack drones now jam the cheap interceptors sent to kill them
The jammer reads the interceptor's own video frequency, then floods it—blinding the operator who steers the drone.