Ukraine’s unusual operation in Crimea: extracting witness to catch collaborator who prepared five-year-old children for war
The suspect pressed Kremlin slogans on teenagers and their parents and glorified Russian forces.
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Il-76s haul Russia’s troops, Il-78s refuel its bombers—drones likely went after the plant that fixes both
Monitoring channels reported a fire at the Staraya Russa repair plant, and Novgorod's governor acknowledged damage to an industrial facility he did not name.
Russia ends free bottled gas for 13 groups of Crimeans before winter. In one village, a gas cylinder costs up to four times the official price—a local resident
Prices have risen for every fuel Crimeans use to heat homes during power outages, Crimean media report.
Baking soda by day, armor chemistry on contract: drones reportedly strike Russia’s Bashkir Soda Company
The plant, which Russian Telegram channel Astra says sits on a closed register of defense suppliers, is the country’s only producer of a chemical used in bulletproof fibers.
Ukraine opens its first war-crime case against a ship captain for carrying off 54,000 tons of its stolen grain
Ukraine opens a war-crime case over the Matros Pozynich captain.
Russia brings children from Moldova’s Transnistria to occupied Crimea for “patriotic education”
Schools in the Russia-backed enclave now begin each week with separatist flag ceremonies. Rights activists say children as young as 11 train with weapons and drones.
Ukraine hit the radar that guards Sochi, the Russian resort city it struck ten days ago
Drones burned two fuel depots there ten days ago, and the Ukrainian military says the system meant to stop them is now the target.
Some ten robot boats. Five hundred Russian air sorties. One very lopsided hunt
Missions that once took a night now stretch to five days, and Russia keeps its fleet hidden, a naval drone unit commander says.
Ukraine hits major Russian refinery and Black Sea oil terminal as drones strike substation powering occupied Crimea
Fires broke out at all three targets as occupied Crimea suffered a widespread blackout that halted electric transport in several cities.
Ukraine hit ground-control station for rare drone that fires Russia’s Banderol, missile hitting 650 km/h with 114-kg warhead
Ukraine hit a Shahed storage and launch site, an Orion drone control station, and drone relay points across occupied Crimea and Kherson Oblast.
Former Ukrainian submarine commander who deserted to Russia in 2014 was killed by bomb 12 years later. Suspect reportedly worked as escort
The Insider identified the man killed in a 13 August Sevastopol bombing as Robert Shageev.
NASA shows Crimea as Russian on a map during its eclipse broadcast
It's the latest in a run of Western maps quietly erasing the line international law still draws around occupied Crimea—this time from the US space agency.
Man killed in explosion in occupied Sevastopol, Russian sources report
A pro-Kremlin channel claims a woman carrying a backpack tracked the victim in the moments beforehand.
Occupied Sevastopol puts fuel back on open sale—then caps every car at 20 liters
The occupation calls it stabilization. The 20-liter cap and the price limits say the shortage hasn’t moved.
Ukraine draws up a new target list for its long-range drones—and vows to keep firing
The updated priorities came out of a meeting of Kyiv's top commanders, who cleared the way for a campaign that has already run more than a thousand strikes into Russia this year.
“From Simferopol to St. Petersburg”—Ukraine’s drone commander sums up one night of fire at Russia’s online giant
Same retailer, the fourth assault in a week—Ukraine has a clear new favorite target.
The Russian retailer's logistics network keeps ending up on fire.
Russia’s construction on Crimea’s only World Heritage site exposed 500,000 artifacts. UNESCO has just declared complex is in danger
UNESCO added Chersonesus Taurica in occupied Crimea to its List of World Heritage in Danger.
Crimea’s political prisoners lost their lifeline—because keeping it open would have put more people in prison
The Crimean Solidarity movement backed families of the detained in the occupied peninsula, arranged legal defense, and circulated information that fell outside the official Russian narrative.
Ukrainian combat divers destroyed Russian bomber at Crimea’s Saky airbase as it prepared to strike
Two drones, one Su-24M, caught on the tarmac before takeoff. It was the fourth reported strike on Saky in a month.
Ukraine just hit its 159th Russian ship in 12 days—and the campaign has no end date
The drone chief promised the "shipfall" would run indefinitely.