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Betsyk, commander of an interceptor battalion in Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps.

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Ukraine’s interceptor crews destroyed thousands of Russian aerial targets during Vivaldi. Jet-powered Shaheds remain a challenge

The battalion’s commander said its work prevented Russian forces from tracking Ukrainian troop movements and striking advancing soldiers.

byZoriana Katola

russia's rubicon built hunt ukrainian drone pilots vivaldi became target its morale broke says general · post left right major dmytro rohoziuk acting commander ukraine’s third army corps; brigadier andrii

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Russia’s Rubicon hunts Ukrainian drone pilots. In Vivaldi, it became the target, and its morale fell sharply, says the Ukrainian general

Biletskyi noted his corps spent drones without limit on every Rubicon position it found. As the operation ends, he hands the Third Corps to an acting commander.

byYuri Zoria

ukraine retook kolodiazi north lyman its drones hit 200-plus russian vehicles operation vivaldi’s last phase commander says · post northern donetsk oblast neighboring areas territory during vivaldi blue 2022 green

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Ukraine retook Kolodiazi north of Lyman as its drones hit 200-plus Russian vehicles in Operation Vivaldi’s last phase, Ukrainian drone officer says

Kolodiazi was encircled and retaken without street fighting while drones “closed” the sky, the chief of staff of the 60th Mechanized Brigade’s drone battalion says.

byYuri Zoria

Ukraine's Third Army Corps commander Brigadier General Andrii Biletskyi announcing new developments in

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Ukraine blocks Russia from outflanking its fortress cities in Donbas, retaking 277 square kilometers and hitting 8,000 Russian troops

“Four seasons of ‘Vivaldi’ are complete. But the music continues. Until we meet again!” the Third Army Corps noted.

byStanovych Solomiia

The Russian army struck an invincibility center in Donetsk Oblast with a bomb on 13 October 2026. Photo: Vadym Liakh/Facebook

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Russia bombs Sloviansk’s warming center as the day’s attacks wound four Red Cross workers

The 250-kg bomb injured eight people and damaged five apartment blocks, and the wounded workers belonged to a Red Cross branch that had relocated from Lyman for safety

byTaisiia Vivdych

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps took the lessons of the failed 2023 counteroffensive into Operation Vivaldi. It fought small, and won.

Five months in, it has erased 18 months of Russian advances toward Sloviansk.

byDavid Axe

Ukraine's Third Army Corps commander Brigadier General Andrii Biletskyi announcing

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Ukraine suffered 10 times fewer casualties than Russia in Vivaldi counteroffensive, veteran says. Ukraine’s innovations in drone and ground robot tactics are changing frontline warfare

Ukrainian forces combined assaults with drones and ground robots to reclaim territory in Donetsk Oblast while limiting their exposure to Russian fire.

byBenjamin Murdoch

after vivaldi near lyman ukraine pushes across siverskyi donets east sloviansk kramatorsk · post assessed control terrain direction 8 2026 slovyansk-direction-october-8-2026 news ukrainian reports

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Ukraine reruns its Vivaldi playbook outside Kramatorsk and pushes Russia back across the Siverskyi Donets, ISW says

Even Russian milbloggers now concede Ukrainian gains east of Sloviansk, including a river crossing toward a key height.

byYuri Zoria

3rd Army Corps troops disembark from an armored vehicle.

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Armored assaults aren’t dead. Robots got the credit, but it was Ukrainian infantry in armored trucks that reversed a year of Russian gains near Lyman

Robots cleared the mines and blew up the bunkers, but soldiers still had to ride in and hold the ground.

byDavid Axe

russia paid more than 46000 casualties front moved other way isw finds · post russian ukrainian territorial gains including infiltrations ukraine between 1 30 2026 russian-territorial-gains-in-ukraine-including-infiltrations-sep-1-to-sep-30-2026 news reports

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Russia paid with more than 46,000 casualties, and the front moved the other way, ISW finds

September ended with a net Russian territorial loss, the think tank says.

byYuri Zoria

Map of settlements Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps says it liberated north of Lyman, as of 28 September 2026.

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Vivaldi counteroffensive advanced after Ukraine took Russia’s drones out of the fight, ISW assesses

Armored vehicles reached heavy Russian fortifications in the Lyman sector without coming under drone attack, which the analysts read as a sign of Ukrainian drone overmatch.

byYuri Zoria

The image shows Russian prisoners of war on the Lyman direction. Source: The 3rd Army Corps

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Ukraine outfoxes Russia near Donetsk’s fortress belt with Soviet BTR-60s rebuilt as kamikaze robots, storms a key hub and takes 250 Russian prisoners

Russia burned its reserves on a feint while the 3rd Army Corps took Nove, closing Vivaldi's decisive third season, its commander says.

byOlena Mukhina

The image shows a Ukrainian soldier standing next to an unmanned ground robotic vehicle. Source: The General Staff

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New Vivaldi tactic: Ukraine’s ground robots, each carrying two Bullspike grenade launchers, attack Russian positions and then detonate inside their shelters

Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps used grenade-launcher ground robots to clear Russian positions during Vivaldi.

byOlena Mukhina

A map showing the territories around Dobropillia that Russia claims to have captured (purple) and analysts’ assessment that Russian forces are 10.2 kilometers from the southeastern outskirts of Dobropillia. Map: Institute for the Study of War

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They say Dobropillia is encircled, but they are actually 10+ km away: ISW publishes map disproving Russia’s claim

Russia is using this to divert attention from its setbacks north of Lyman, the think tank says.

byStanovych Solomiia

One of Ukraine's fiber optic-controlled UGVs.

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Ukraine put robots where its soldiers used to die clearing mines—and lost none

Sent into kill zones too deadly for people, the machines clear paths, mine enemy routes, and evacuate the wounded.

byTaisiia Vivdych

Map of Dobropillia and nearby towns, with Russian-controlled territory shaded pink mainly to the east and south, striped areas marking Russian infiltration, and blue areas marking claimed Ukrainian counteroffensives.

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Russia fabricates Dobropillia encirclement to strengthen its case for Kyiv’s capitulation at UN – ISW

Ukrainian officers describe active fighting around the Donetsk Oblast transport hub.

byDaniel Thomas

ATESH partisan Footage of a fire on a relay cabinet at the Bataysk railway junction, near Rostov-On-Don, Russia, 21 December 2025. Screenshot from video: ATESH

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Ukraine’s Vivaldi counteroffensive near Lyman just got help from behind Russian lines: partisans say they cut rail supply to three Russian regiments, no explosion needed

ATESH says it disabled four relay cabinets in Voronezh Oblast, which helped a Russian operation in Donetsk Oblast.

byOlena Mukhina

Two soldiers of Ukraine’s Third Army Corps silhouetted among bare trees at twilight; one holds a radio to his mouth.

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Vivaldi erased Russia’s Lyman pincer. Now Moscow is pushing toward Sloviansk instead

DeepState says Ukraine stopped one Russian approach to its fortified Donetsk cities. Moscow is pressing another.

byDaniel Thomas

vivaldi's secret weapon targeting robots third corps reconnaissance mapped russian command nodes hit cause panic · post graphic ukraine's army / telegram під час операції вівальді нрк десантували щоб порушити

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Russian Aggression

Vivaldi’s secret weapon was the targeting, not the robots: Third Corps reconnaissance mapped Russian command nodes, then hit them to cause panic

The officer said disrupting command and communications was one of the tasks set directly by the corps commander, with brigade and corps intelligence identifying the areas to strike.

byYuri Zoria

Ukrainian soldiers. Source: The Third Separate Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces

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Ukraine’s Donetsk counteroffensive wins not by force but by stealth: it gathers troops under Russian nose and seizes two villages before they react

A 60th Brigade captain says a concealed buildup near Derylove and Drobysheve, and precisely timed strikes, let his units move in before Russia responded.

byOlena Mukhina

Operation Vivaldi

Ukraine’s interceptor crews destroyed thousands of Russian aerial targets during Vivaldi. Jet-powered Shaheds remain a challenge

Russia’s Rubicon hunts Ukrainian drone pilots. In Vivaldi, it became the target, and its morale fell sharply, says the Ukrainian general

Ukraine retook Kolodiazi north of Lyman as its drones hit 200-plus Russian vehicles in Operation Vivaldi’s last phase, Ukrainian drone officer says

Ukraine blocks Russia from outflanking its fortress cities in Donbas, retaking 277 square kilometers and hitting 8,000 Russian troops

Russia bombs Sloviansk’s warming center as the day’s attacks wound four Red Cross workers

Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps took the lessons of the failed 2023 counteroffensive into Operation Vivaldi. It fought small, and won.

Ukraine suffered 10 times fewer casualties than Russia in Vivaldi counteroffensive, veteran says. Ukraine’s innovations in drone and ground robot tactics are changing frontline warfare

Ukraine reruns its Vivaldi playbook outside Kramatorsk and pushes Russia back across the Siverskyi Donets, ISW says

Armored assaults aren’t dead. Robots got the credit, but it was Ukrainian infantry in armored trucks that reversed a year of Russian gains near Lyman

Russia paid with more than 46,000 casualties, and the front moved the other way, ISW finds

Vivaldi counteroffensive advanced after Ukraine took Russia’s drones out of the fight, ISW assesses

Ukraine outfoxes Russia near Donetsk’s fortress belt with Soviet BTR-60s rebuilt as kamikaze robots, storms a key hub and takes 250 Russian prisoners

New Vivaldi tactic: Ukraine’s ground robots, each carrying two Bullspike grenade launchers, attack Russian positions and then detonate inside their shelters

They say Dobropillia is encircled, but they are actually 10+ km away: ISW publishes map disproving Russia’s claim

Ukraine put robots where its soldiers used to die clearing mines—and lost none

Russia fabricates Dobropillia encirclement to strengthen its case for Kyiv’s capitulation at UN – ISW

Ukraine’s Vivaldi counteroffensive near Lyman just got help from behind Russian lines: partisans say they cut rail supply to three Russian regiments, no explosion needed

Vivaldi erased Russia’s Lyman pincer. Now Moscow is pushing toward Sloviansk instead

Vivaldi’s secret weapon was the targeting, not the robots: Third Corps reconnaissance mapped Russian command nodes, then hit them to cause panic

Ukraine’s Donetsk counteroffensive wins not by force but by stealth: it gathers troops under Russian nose and seizes two villages before they react

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