Russia is bombing Kostiantynivka to rubble while pushing its infantry into it on foot
Artillery and guided glide bombs hit the city as small Russian groups try to dig into whatever buildings they can reach.
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Russia took the cages off its newest tanks. The new Arena-M shield bought them a few minutes.
The Russians' new Arena-M systems shoots tiny projectiles at incoming enemy drones. But it didn't save a rare Russian tank assault this week.
Russian troops inch toward Lyman. Drones keep delaying the plan.
Fedorov's middle-strike drones are throttling the supply lines behind the Russian push. Whether they keep doing it without him is the question hanging over Sloviansk.
Russia lost ground for a second straight month in June. CSIS says it has lost the initiative too
The war in Ukraine is grinding into a new frozen state as Russian advances slow or reverse in recent months.
Russians keep raising “Potemkin flags” in Lyman. They’re no closer to capturing it.
Scattered reports of Russian flags flying over Lyman don't indicate new Russian positions in the front-line city. Lyman holds.
After eight months, Kostiantynivka is falling. Why some Ukrainian commanders would rather fight the open fields behind it
Russia's first strategic win of the year is a ruined city—and Ukraine's drone-centric defense may not miss it the way it once would have.
Russia tried to surround Lyman. Now its own salient is getting squeezed.
Lyman blocks the northern route to Kramatorsk and Sloviansk. Ukrainian counterattacks are protecting the city.
ISW: Russia gains ground in Kostiantynivka but Fortress Belt stays out of reach
Russia's strategy of stacking armies on one Donetsk Oblast city is producing slow infiltration, not the operational breakthrough Moscow needs to crack the fortified chain, ISW says.
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.
Russia’s monthly land grab in Ukraine has collapsed from hundreds of km² to 14, OSINT data show
As Ukraine paired a battlefield network linking every drone and sensor with strikes deep behind Russian lines, DeepState's monthly tally for May is the smallest in years of Russia's grinding offensive.
“Position of strength”: Ukraine has six to nine months to reshape negotiations, says commander of one of top fighting units
His units hold the flank around Sloviansk and force Russia to attack head-on.
A Russian tank division rolls toward Pokrovsk, adding major manpower to Russia’s eastern push
Can the Ukrainian 7th Rapid Reaction Corps kill enough Russian reinforcements to halt an offensive toward Kramatorsk and Sloviansk?
Ukrainian supply robots are blocking Russia’s plan to starve Kostiantynivka
Ukraine's growing legion of resupply robots can prolong the defense of Konstyantynivka. But human soldiers are still necessary.
Moscow’s offensive has lost ground since it started — yet Russia’s top brass declared Luhansk Oblast fully seized for the fourth time
Gerasimov claimed Russia seized 1,700 km² in 2026 and controls 70% of Lyman, but ISW’s evidence shows gains of only about one fifth of that area, none of the city, and territorial losses since 1 March.
Russian drones hit Sumy hospital — 15 injured, three schoolgirls among wounded
Russia launched 143 drones and two Iskander missiles overnight on 21 April. A Sumy medical facility was hit, injuring 15 including three girls; one killed in Kherson, school destroyed in Sloviansk.
Russia strikes apartments in Konotop, Sloviansk, and Odesa, wounding three women
Three women wounded in Sloviansk, residential buildings hit in Sumy and Odesa oblasts as Russia deploys Shahed, Gerber, and Italmas drones across nine regions overnight.
Russia paid 206 troops for every Ukrainian square kilometer gained in March. Last summer it paid 61 — expert
Russia lost 31,960 troops in March for 155 square kilometers.
Russia’s 2026 war plan had two objectives. Ukraine is wrecking both.
With nine months left in 2026, the Kremlin has its sights set on two main objectives in the east and south. Neither is easy.
Ukraine crushes Moscow’s largest assault of 2026 on Donetsk fortress belt that held back Russians since 2014
On the Sloviansk direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine stopped the largest motorcycle assault by Russian occupiers since…
Russia’s spring offensive has stalled at Ukraine’s Fortress Belt — ISW says it won’t break through in 2026
The 3rd Combined Arms Army, the only Russian force positioned to push directly on Sloviansk, hasn't gained ground in a week after a month of tactically significant advances east of the city.