One small Ukrainian peninsula still gives Russia strategic edge in Black Sea. Here’s why
Russia is using the Kinburn Spit as a strategic position to obstruct maritime access from Mykolaiv ports.
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Russian-occupied Crimea imposes electricity restrictions after grid breakdowns amid Ukrainian strikes
Ukraine has intensified strikes on Crimea’s transport and logistics network, targeting rail, fuel, and supply routes supporting Russian forces in southern Ukraine.
“Nuclear blackmail” – IAEA reports attack on power infrastructure tied to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Ukraine says only demilitarization can restore safety at the occupied facility.
Russia is holding at least 100 people in occupied Crimea with no contact with outside world and no lawyer — and no trials
For the same charges that brought 7–10 years before 2022, courts now hand down 10–20, a Ukrainian rights monitor says.
Russia fast-tracks citizenship for Moldova’s occupied Transnistria – a familiar playbook returns
Russia has eased citizenship rules for residents of the Moldovan breakaway region Transnistria, reviving a policy approach previously used in other contested regions.
Russia seizes 900 Mariupol apartments from owners it forced to flee
Russia is redistributing nearly 900 Mariupol apartments. The owners fled the bombing. The new tenants will be Russian officials
Three months absent from your shop in occupied Luhansk? Russia declares it “ownerless” and takes it
Russia targets 150 commercial properties in occupied Luhansk for “nationalization,” including shops left vacant for three months or with one unpaid utility bill.
Drone-and-mine siege: Ukraine takes Oleshky crisis to UN as 2,000 civilians starve in occupied city
Russia rejects humanitarian corridor as Ombudsman pursues longer route.
Russia blacked out Europe’s largest nuclear plant 15 times since occupying it in 2022
The latest outage hit on the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster, with Energoatom saying external power failed for 90 minutes.
“We will use all available methods” — Shoigu threatened Moldova over Transnistria. Available methods are limited: Ukraine is in the way
He invoked the Donbas playbook, warned of intervention to protect 220,000 Russian passport holders, and accused Chișinău of "blockade."
Russia hands Crimea’s main detention center to FSB
The transfer reverses a concession Russia made to the Council of Europe in 2005. Detention centers in Crimea are already at 103% capacity.
Occupied Donetsk’s drinking water crisis is so bad that Russia is now proposing heavy-metal-laced mine drainage as a substitute
Ukraine linked the pattern explicitly to officials' interest in maintaining their posts and access to financial flows from Moscow, rather than solving the underlying crisis.
Children informing on parents, teachers beaten, collaborators later jailed — researcher details Russia’s occupation playbook
The Russification plan for occupied Crimea was copied for captured parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, but was met with unexpected resistance, and took three and a half years instead of the nine months Russia anticipated.
ISW: Russia appears to have seized Pokrovsk after two-year battle – but gains stall beyond the ruins
Ukrainian forces not observed in the town since late January, ISW says.
Russia paid 26,000 casualties for this city of ruins: Toretsk reportedly falls after 18-month battle
100th Mechanized Brigade held Toretsk for 18 months.
Russia forces Donbas residents into becoming”cannon fodder”
Disabled and ill Donbas residents are thrown into combat without training
Russia turns occupied Mariupol into logistics hub while residents wait for promised housing
Occupation authorities suspend school meals, confiscate apartments
Border Hrabovske remains under Russian control—but Kyiv’s forces block every move forward into Sumy Oblast
Ukrainian border guards say they are combining new tactics and old grit to stop Russian units cold in northern Ukraine.
Russia bombs Kharkiv zoo on first day of 2026: Most birds killed, lions wounded, volunteer in hospital after assault
The Russian bomb hit the building with tranquilizers.
Russia reopens Mariupol theater, where it bombed 600 to death, as “statement to the world”
Workers used chlorine bleach to mask the smell of decaying bodies during reconstruction. Now the site Russia bombed in 2022 hosts children's fairy tales.