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Ukraine says Russia’s Alabuga workers, including minors, are now inside Zaporizhzhia’s reactor complex, turned into military base

Ukrainian intelligence says Russia has placed armor in ZNPP turbine halls, machine-gun nests on reactor roofs, and drone control points staffed by Alabuga workers.

byOlena Mukhina

russia kills 11 kyiv air defense stops zero 29 ballistic hypersonic missiles · post rescuers carry body person killed russia's missile attack 6 2026 dsns ukraine news ukrainian reports

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Russia kills 11 in Kyiv as air defense stops zero of 29 ballistic and hypersonic missiles

Rescuers pulled 45 people from one Podilskyi high-rise alone, while three children ended up among 27 hospitalized across the capital.

byYuri Zoria

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 26 April 2026. Photo: Zelenskyy on Telegram

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Kyiv gave Belarus ruler week to pull Russia’s drone relays. They went silent in three days, Zelenskyy says

Whether Belarus dismantled them or Ukraine acted, the president says he does not yet know.

byOlena Mukhina

russia kills four firefighters kharkiv hitting same spot twice one night · post rescuer killed site russian repeat strike overnight 15 2026 фото ігор клименко ukraine news ukrainian reports

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Russia kills four firefighters in Kharkiv hitting the same spot twice in one night

All four served in the city's 6th State Fire and Rescue Unit, and their service mourned men it called heroes who carried no weapons.

byYuri Zoria

russian missiles kill three wound six chuhuiv drones injure 15 kharkiv including one-year-old · post fire burns amid rubble destroyed building after strike oblast 9 2026 fdd39292-265f-4a90-a09d-e1288a16f6ae ukraine news ukrainian

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Russian missiles kill three and wound six in Chuhuiv as drones injure 15 in Kharkiv, including a one-year-old

Beyond Kharkiv Oblast, Russian attacks killed civilians in Kherson, Sumy, and Donetsk oblasts and wounded dozens more over 8–9 June. Local authorities report at least 8 civilian deaths and 61 injuries.

byYuri Zoria

The image shows markings on debris from a Russian drone. Source: Serhii Beskrestnov

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Production dates on downed Russian weapons reveal country may be running on zero reserve — with one particularly dangerous exception

Russia stockpiles 180-250 Iskanders, fires other missiles "straight from the factory," Beskrestnov says.

byOlena Mukhina

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Moscow’s drone hits 10-story apartment block in Romania, injuring two as Russia fires 232 UAVs at Ukraine

The long-range kamikaze UAV crashed through the roof of a residential tower in Galați and set a top-floor flat ablaze. Two F-16s and a helicopter that were in the air did nothing to prevent the strike. At least five were injured in Ukraine.

byYuri Zoria

russia bolting jammers onto its shahed drones survive ukraine's cheap interceptors · post russian attack drone caught ukrainian interceptor's thermal camera night 47th mechanized brigade ministry defense ukraine official confirmed

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Russia is bolting jammers onto its Shahed drones to survive Ukraine’s cheap interceptors

Defense official confirmed the modified drones turned up in recent attacks, then declined to treat the upgrade as anything Moscow should boast about.

byYuri Zoria

isw belarus ground invasion very unlikely russia use belarusian airspace hit western ukraine · post self-proclaimed president alianksandr lukashenka russian-belarusian military exercises 2022 tass 01000000-0 aff-0242-ec8f-08db196d102f_w1023_r1_s news ukrainian reports

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ISW: a Belarus ground invasion is very unlikely, but Russia may use Belarusian airspace to hit western Ukraine

Belarus has neither massed forces on the Ukrainian border nor would Russia have the reserves to support a Belarusian ground push, per the assessment.

byYuri Zoria

ukrainian intelligence russia's new jet-powered geran-4 attack drone runs chinese turbojets · post interactive 3d model jet powered telefly turbojet engines published ukraine's main directorate (hur) war-sanctionsgurgovua capture revealed agency

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Ukrainian intelligence: Russia’s new jet-powered Geran-4 attack drone runs on Chinese turbojets

The Geran-4 has a brand-new reinforced airframe and can pull high-G maneuvers at 300-400 km/h, per Ukraine's military intelligence. It carries up to 90 kg of thermobaric explosives.

byYuri Zoria

The image shows the FIM-92 Stinger, a man-portable air-defense system. Source: The Ukrainian Defense Ministry

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Ukraine’s new Stinger training simulator lets crews drill without firing missile that costs $120,000–150,000

Global stocks are aging, too. The simulator means crews can train without firing one.

byOlena Mukhina

The image shows debris from a modified Russian Geran-2 attack drone with a warhead of an R-60 air-to-air missile mounted on it, containing depleted uranium. Source: The Security Service of Ukraine

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Russia’s drone-air-defense arms race now includes depleted uranium — Ukraine found it in Geran-2 warhead

Depleted uranium is widely used in Russian conventional munitions. The change is mounting it on a drone to kill the helicopters defending against the drones.

byOlena Mukhina

militarnyi russia now using jet-propelled shaheds—geran-3 drones—to step up deadly strikes ukraine jet-powered shahed-238 strike drone known geran-3 2023 iranian media has started shaheds its war says used least eight

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Flash warns air defense crews not to wait for orders, as Russia is now hunting them with real-time-piloted Shaheds

He also warned crews not to fire carelessly and reveal their location.

byOlena Mukhina

Ukraine lets companies build their own air defense, and 24 have already signed up Ukrainian air defense unit's control room. Screenshot: RFE/RL

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Ukraine clears private firms to down Russian drones—24 already in

A Defense Ministry project lets businesses defend their plants from drones with trained staff or licensed security firms, RFE/RL reported.

byYuri Zoria

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Russia just hit commercial vessel of its closest war ally in Ukrainian waters with Shahed drone

Russia has spent months hitting civilian ships across the Black Sea. This one belonged to its closest strategic partner.

byOlena Mukhina

axios cuba has acquired over 300 russian iranian military drones · post russia's drone factory tatarstan shahed_plant alabuga video ukraine news ukrainian reports

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Axios: Cuba has acquired over 300 Russian and Iranian military drones

A classified assessment shared with Axios says Havana has stockpiled the drones since 2023 and its military has begun weighing strikes on US targets.

byYuri Zoria

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Russia destroyed a section of a 9-story Kyiv apartment block overnight, killing 8 civilians in one of the war’s largest combined attacks (updated)

Across Ukraine, the same assault wounded seven more civilians near Kyiv, knocked out power for 31,000 near Chernihiv, hit Odesa's port, and struck Kharkiv.

byYuri Zoria

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Bucharest Nine summit on 13 May. Source: The Presidential Office

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Possessing weapons is only one of three essentials in modern war, Zelenskyy tells NATO’s eastern flank at B9 summit

Meanwhile, Russia chose the moment of a NATO summit on its eastern flank to demonstrate it will strike anywhere, anytime, including regions it had previously avoided.

byOlena Mukhina

The image shows the aftermath of a Russian drone attack on Rivbe Oblast on 13 May 2026. Source: DSNS

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Russia is hitting Ukraine’s Zakarpattia Oblast, bordering Hungary with drones, for first time. Expert says this is linked to end of Orbán’s era

The scale of the May 13 attack may break all previous records. And the timing is not a coincidence.

byOlena Mukhina

kyiv oblast kindergarten hit hours after russia's ceasefire ended · post inside kalynivka community fastiv district damaged russian drones overnight 12 2026 administration ukraine news ukrainian reports

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A Kyiv Oblast kindergarten was hit hours after Russia’s “ceasefire” ended

Russia also targeted Dnipro locomotives, Mykolaiv power facilities, bombed Zaporizhzhia, and shelled more regions.

byYuri Zoria

Shahed drones

Ukraine says Russia’s Alabuga workers, including minors, are now inside Zaporizhzhia’s reactor complex, turned into military base

Russia kills 11 in Kyiv as air defense stops zero of 29 ballistic and hypersonic missiles

Kyiv gave Belarus ruler week to pull Russia’s drone relays. They went silent in three days, Zelenskyy says

Russia kills four firefighters in Kharkiv hitting the same spot twice in one night

Russian missiles kill three and wound six in Chuhuiv as drones injure 15 in Kharkiv, including a one-year-old

Production dates on downed Russian weapons reveal country may be running on zero reserve — with one particularly dangerous exception

Moscow’s drone hits 10-story apartment block in Romania, injuring two as Russia fires 232 UAVs at Ukraine

Russia is bolting jammers onto its Shahed drones to survive Ukraine’s cheap interceptors

ISW: a Belarus ground invasion is very unlikely, but Russia may use Belarusian airspace to hit western Ukraine

Ukrainian intelligence: Russia’s new jet-powered Geran-4 attack drone runs on Chinese turbojets

Ukraine’s new Stinger training simulator lets crews drill without firing missile that costs $120,000–150,000

Russia’s drone-air-defense arms race now includes depleted uranium — Ukraine found it in Geran-2 warhead

Flash warns air defense crews not to wait for orders, as Russia is now hunting them with real-time-piloted Shaheds

Ukraine clears private firms to down Russian drones—24 already in

Russia just hit commercial vessel of its closest war ally in Ukrainian waters with Shahed drone

Axios: Cuba has acquired over 300 Russian and Iranian military drones

Russia destroyed a section of a 9-story Kyiv apartment block overnight, killing 8 civilians in one of the war’s largest combined attacks (updated)

Possessing weapons is only one of three essentials in modern war, Zelenskyy tells NATO’s eastern flank at B9 summit

Russia is hitting Ukraine’s Zakarpattia Oblast, bordering Hungary with drones, for first time. Expert says this is linked to end of Orbán’s era

A Kyiv Oblast kindergarten was hit hours after Russia’s “ceasefire” ended

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