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.
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Germany’s Helsing promises jet-drone-hunting missiles at under $100,000 a shot—its CEO doesn’t expect them on the market before 2027
One contract is signed. Ukraine’s own jet-drone interceptors, meanwhile, aren’t due in needed numbers before late November.
A 4-watt video link passed Ukraine’s state tests, its maker says, and could stretch STING interceptors’ radius from 20 km to 30 km
The 30 km figure is Wild Hornets’ own estimate, first given in August, and assumes good line of sight. Testers checked three drone types.
40,000 tons of Russian diesel are bound for New York—due four days after Americans vote
The tanker loaded at a Baltic port Ukrainian drones struck in March. Trump wants cheaper diesel before the midterms.
From “bad-guy fleet” to “good-guy fleet”: US will let investors buy sanctioned tankers and return them to legal trade
Chris Wright puts the dark fleet at about 1,600 ships. Each would need US approval, on terms he didn’t spell out.
Trump calls Ukraine’s renewed refinery strikes “a disgrace” after Russia’s 39-missile strike on its energy sites
The president called Zelenskyy “P.T. Barnum” and said Biden armed Ukraine for free.
US weighs relief for sanctioned shadow fleet tankers, days after freeing Russian diesel
Officials say only unsanctioned oil would sail, but Reuters says Trump’s diesel push could pressure them to let Russian fuel aboard.
“Now it’s your turn”: US envoys planned to show Moscow a refinery pause and a diesel deal, then ask for something back, a source tells Reuters
Ukraine’s part of that exchange was to stop striking Russia’s oil plants, a request Kushner repeated at the Miami meeting.
“We don’t need to hit the entire plant”—Ukraine’s drones go for refinery parts sanctions make hard to repair
Of 54 strikes The Washington Post examined, more than half appear to have damaged the units that start turning crude into fuel.
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.
Iran armed Russia with Shaheds. Now it wants the jet-powered Geran-5 remake back to fight Israel and the US
Russia turned Iran's imported Shahed into a jet that flies at up to 600 km/h, with a new airframe closer to a cruise missile than to the propeller drone Tehran sent it.
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.
From Russian classrooms to Iran’s defense industry: how Moscow trains Iranian specialists
Almost 10,000 Iranians studied at Russian universities in 2025, 42% more than two years earlier, by the Russian science ministry's count, with medicine still the most popular field.
US struck 5 Iranian tankers – 3 were also linked to Russia’s shadow fleet
The vessels had carried Russian oil, called at Russian ports, or operated through networks used to evade sanctions, according to Ukraine.
Russia builds 3,000 jet drones monthly to counter Ukrainian interceptors, HUR says
Moscow has ended production of the Geran-3 while expanding production of faster jet-powered models built to strain Ukraine’s air defenses, HUR says.
New Iranian loitering munition has started reaching Ukraine, analyst says. It’s built to hit deep behind front
Iran is improving its Shahed-107 kamikaze drones based on the Ukraine war, adding shrapnel elements.
Iran was prepared to strike three Ukrainian sites over sunken ship but paused after Kyiv’s explanation, Tehran claims
A senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader said Tehran still intends to make Ukraine "pay" for the attack despite suspending its immediate response. Ukraine has maintained the vessel was carrying Iranian drone and missile components for Russia.
After Ukraine’s Caspian strike, Iran warns of retaliation. Ukraine faces that threat without defenses its allies gave Israel
Monitoring channels raised the prospect of a ballistic strike, but Ukrainian officials say no such intent is confirmed.
US sanctions 13 Iran-Belarus-China entities supplying Iran’s IRGC. That’s three of four “Axis of Upheaval” states
The same Iran-Belarus-China network is the operational ecosystem supplying Russia's drone war on Ukraine.
Europe weighs freezing Russia’s oil price cap as the Iran war threatens to loosen it
Brussels could override the automatic formula that would otherwise let the ceiling jump from $44.10 to at least $65 a barrel in July, Bloomberg says.