Ukraine’s Khartiia soldiers clear 4 km² near Kupiansk, while Russia pushes for main rail hub (VIDEO)
On the left bank, Russian supply was so broken that they delivered water by drone.
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Foot soldiers get a long spear: Ukrainian assault units strike deep behind Russian lines
Ukraine's trench units now fly strike drones 150 km into the Russian rear—a job that once belonged to specialists.
Ukrainian robot commander calls ground robots “Persian elephants.” What army really needs are “Arabian steeds”, he says
A "Khartia" robot commander says FPV drones and mines have collapsed the machines' lifespan.
Russian electric locomotive was named target of Ukrainian partisan operation. It carried military supplies toward Kharkiv front
The ATESH partisan movement says its agents destroyed the cab of an electric locomotive.
Russia’s morning strike on a Kharkiv high-rise kills two men and wounds 21
Regional and city officials watched the toll climb through the day, with a young child among the many people hurt in the residential tower.
Take Lyman, then Sloviansk, then Kramatorsk: Russia’s plan is still stuck on step one, the Ukrainian military says
Russian commanders treat the town as the necessary launchpad, yet their infantry cannot hold ground inside it, according to the report.
Russia attacks this one Ukrainian village every single day. It never works, the border service says
Each assault toward Vovchanski Khutory ends with Russian troops killed or in Ukrainian hands, per the service's spokesman.
ISW: Russia gains ground in Kostiantynivka but Fortress Belt stays out of reach
Russia's strategy of stacking armies on one Donetsk Oblast city is producing slow infiltration, not the operational breakthrough Moscow needs to crack the fortified chain, ISW says.
Russia’s monthly land grab in Ukraine has collapsed from hundreds of km² to 14, OSINT data show
As Ukraine paired a battlefield network linking every drone and sensor with strikes deep behind Russian lines, DeepState's monthly tally for May is the smallest in years of Russia's grinding offensive.
ISW: Russian generals feed the Kremlin a false picture: leaked map claims towns that were never captured
Russian milbloggers complain that false reports of captured ground trigger pointless assaults to seize places the maps already show as Russian-controlled.
Ukrainian flag flies again over Odradne, six months after Russia overran the village
The 129th Brigade's storm units pushed Russian forces out of fortified positions, treelines, and strongpoints in northeastern Kharkiv Oblast.
After days of crawling through Sumy pipes, Russia is now trying same tactic in Kupiansk
Russian forces are attempting to regain control over Kupiansk by sending infantry groups into the city through a…
Four troops stranded without food at the front expose concealed failures – brigade commander fired
The General Staff cites hidden logistics problems and lost positions in the Kupiansk sector as grounds for dismissal.
Russian advance is slowing — and ISW’s numbers prove the Kremlin’s demands on Donetsk have no basis on the battlefield
ISW found Russian forces seized 29% less territory in the six months to March 2026 than in the same period a year earlier, advancing at 10.66 km² per day versus 14.9 — a pace that makes Russia's two-month ultimatum on Donetsk Oblast a cognitive warfare tool, not a military reality.
Russia kills two medics with FPV drone strike on ambulance in Kharkiv Oblast
A 27-year-old doctor and medical technician died before dawn near Kupiansk; prosecutors opened a war crime case.
Russia’s winter offensive ground to a halt as Ukraine recaptured more land than it lost in February, Syrskyi says
The Commander-in-Chief reported that over three winter months, Ukrainian forces killed or wounded nearly 100,000 Russian troops — more than Russia managed to recruit into its ranks over the same period.
Besieged Russians in Kupiansk high-rises “dwindling,” Ukrainian military says
Dozens of trapped Russian soldiers cling to apartment blocks they can't leave
ISW: Battlefield realities disprove Russia’s claim that Ukrainian defeat is inevitable
The fifth year of the invasion begins with Ukrainian forces making their most significant gains since the Kursk incursion while Russia faces mounting setbacks.
Defending a city that no longer exists — Ukraine’s impossible fight in Vovchansk
With every building destroyed, there's no infrastructure to anchor a defensive line, yet Ukrainian troops in the south refuse to withdraw as Russian forces attempt flanking operations from both sides, the military says.
North Korean artillery caught firing at Kupiansk, hit three times by drones
The 170mm Koksan self-propelled gun was firing toward Kupiansk from occupied Luhansk Oblast when a recon drone's thermal camera spotted its hot barrel. Three FPV drone strikes followed.