Russia’s jet-powered Geran-4 can outrun the American Lancer 7 interceptor drone tested in Ukraine
B&M Defense gave some drones to Ukrainian units for combat trials but hasn’t disclosed results or any interceptions so far.
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EU training mission for Ukrainian troops to set up a coordination presence in Ukraine
More than two years ago, then EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said EU states had agreed to a center in Kyiv.
Russia aims to split Ukraine along the Dnipro, Ukraine says. Moscow’s strikes cut power in Dnipro and Kamianske
President Zelenskyy described a Russian campaign against bridges and the grid, and several of the night’s targets stand on the river’s banks.
Russia kills three at a store of kindergarten food in Odesa after setting a Kremenchuk hotel ablaze
The two strikes came within hours of each other and hit children's food supplies in one city and a hotel and an apartment block in the other.
Russia cuts power to more than 600,000 in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast as Zelenskyy says the strikes aim to squeeze Ukraine before talks
Russia is hitting power and heat across Ukraine with winter weeks away, and Kyiv says Moscow treats diplomacy as one more way to attack.
A Kyiv-bound Shahed carried a warhead and leaflets touting a “Ukrainian” brigade in Russia’s army
Ukrainian troops downed it on 4 November. A second leaflet in the bundle attacked Ukraine’s military recruitment offices.
Russian attacks kill nine civilians in Kherson, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Sumy oblasts in a day
Bombs and drones hit homes across front-line communities, while the death toll from Monday's strike on an aid point in Komyshuvakha kept rising.
Germany’s chancellor admits occasional resupply snags in Ukraine aid—he’ll try to clear them at the 19 November summit
Merz said he gathered from the talks that deliveries, F-16 ammunition in particular, are helping Ukraine’s army a lot right now.
Ukraine’s sky has two kinds of threats now, and it handles only one of them well
Mobile fire groups and interceptor drones catch most slow drones, while ballistic missiles remain the gap the Defense Ministry says it needs better means to close.
Dozens of Russian drones fell to gun turrets over Kyiv in a month, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry says
The ministry also credits turrets with 60+ targets in a private project—the figure it gave on 14 October for all private teams.
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 finds Russia’s Geran drones fitted with a compass that works through GPS jamming, but Western electronics still at their core
Ukraine is also studying a new jamming device, and the findings go into its sanctions work.
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.
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.
Ukraine says it hit drone hangars at Crimea’s Hvardiiske. Now an OSINT channel spots 20+ bermed shelters there
Dnipro Osint says the base fires Shahed-type drones from vehicles on its runway, and the airfield kept turning up on Ukraine’s launch lists in October.
Guided bombs on Izium, strikes on Zaporizhzhia: Russian overnight attacks wound six, later strikes kill three
It was the second night running that Russia sent at least 140 drones, and strikes hit 15 locations both times.
Full speed returned to Ukraine’s satellite links on Saturday morning. “We simply enforced our terms,” Musk claims after blaming Washington for 10 days
The SpaceX owner, who had earlier said the US government decides such limits, wrote that his company had closed a gap he says Ukrainian troops used for drone strikes.
Russia replaces its missiles as fast as it fires them, Ukrainian intelligence says. Its drone order this year tops 100,000
HUR calls the order a systematic bet on exhausting Ukraine’s air defense.
Romania shot down two drones it believes were Russia’s new Geran-4s. Europe isn’t ready for swarms of them, analyst warns
Analyst Fabian Hoffmann says jet-powered interceptors are one answer, but too few Western suppliers make the small engines they need.