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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ukraine’s air defense intercepted nearly 6,000 Russian aerial targets in April — at 90% effectiveness rate
Some 5,861 were destroyed before reaching their targets.
Satellite imagery reveals Flamingo missile damage at Russian plant making Shahed navigation antennas
The imagery shows the Ukrainian cruise missile sliced into the front of the main workshop at VNIIR-Progress in Cheboksary, while two Liutyi drones hit a second building
Russia wanted a 9 May ceasefire. Kyiv announced one starting earlier. Russia killed a woman in a kindergarten, and hit 1,820 times
The Ukrainian Air Force said it had downed or jammed 89 of the drones. Nine drones, two ballistic missiles, and one air-launched missile struck eight locations across the country.