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Russia’s jet drones fly near 600 km/h now. Ukraine is building simulators for the 900 km/h ones it expects next

When a Russian jet drone and the drone chasing it move at the same speed, the pilot can barely tell the two apart—and the Russian models keep getting faster.

byTaisiia Vivdych

Firefighters beside a heavily damaged warehouse holding Bosch products as smoke rises from its collapsed roof.

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Modern war that the US is not ready for: For the price of one American cruise missile, Russia builds 20 “poor-man” drones and missiles

Russia is fielding cheap jet drones and missiles built with Chinese parts—slipping past defenses Ukraine and the West spent years building.

byTaisiia Vivdych

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A fourth Ukrainian pharmaceutical warehouse has burned in a Russian strike since the start of the month

Russian forces damaged the newest one in Odesa, where the buildings belong to a wholesaler supplying drugstores across Ukraine.

byYuri Zoria

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Spain keeps arming Ukraine against Russia’s ballistic missiles—and promises even more

Madrid is readying a fresh batch of interceptors for Kyiv, and has ordered four new Patriot systems of its own in a $1.7 billion Raytheon deal.

byTaisiia Vivdych

A Patriot air defense missile launcher. Photo: South Korean defense ministry.

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190 or 580 Patriot missiles? What Ukraine’s EU-loan request could buy—and why Washington still decides

The EU is weighing Ukraine's loan request to buy Patriot missiles, von der Leyen confirmed—member states take it up on 7 September.

byTaisiia Vivdych

Modified UBB-M drone adapted for interceptor missions.

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Russia is secretly building a mortar-launched drone-killer—and a resistance group just leaked the blueprints

Leaked documents describe a swept-wing drone built to hunt other drones at up to 300 km/h. Russian firm NIK allegedly cooperated with Boeing.

byTaisiia Vivdych

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AI against AI over Ukraine: Russia’s Shahed now sees its target, and Ukraine’s interceptor sees Shahed

Russia showed a new Geran-4 Seeker Shahed variant with machine-vision AI targeting.

byOlena Mukhina

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy on 9 June 2026. Source: President's Office

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Ukraine is building its own ballistic interceptor for $700,000 per shot. Eight countries may join project

Ukraine's Freya anti-ballistic project may add up to eight European partners, President Zelenskyy told journalists.

byOlena Mukhina

The RYF air defense missile system. Photo: Suspilne

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Ukraine took Soviet Strela-10 and built its own air-defense system on it. RYF is already guarding sky

Ukraine is serially producing its own laser-guided SAM with Soviet-era roots, and it's working.

byOlena Mukhina

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

Remains of Russian missile Iskander-M, found in a forest in Sumy Oblast. Photo via National Police of Ukraine.

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Russia’s monthly ballistic-missile production now exceeds Lockheed Martin’s PAC-3 production. And it takes 2-3 interceptors to stop one Iskander, says expert

Russia builds 70 ballistic missiles a month. Lockheed Martin builds 56 PAC-3 interceptors.

byOlena Mukhina

Ukrainian soldier Ivan Solokha at his combat post. Photo: The Operational Command South

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Russian showed his military ID in mud and declared him dead. He survived and went back for gun

He also shot down eight Russian drones in the past few weeks.

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

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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

russia destroyed section 9-storey kyiv apartment block overnight killing two wounding 32 one war's largest combined attacks · post 9-story residential building kyiv's darnytskyi district after russia's strike side 14

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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

Ukraine deploys AI-powered turret that can shoot down FPVs

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Ukraine deploys AI-powered turret that can shoot down FPVs. Operator’s only job is to press button to confirm strike

First combat use was recorded by soldiers of the K-2 Brigade. More than ten frontline units are already operating the system across key sectors.

byOlena MukhinaandbySerhii Omelchenko

Ukrainian mobile fire squad shooting down incoming drones. Photo: Army Inform

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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.

byOlena Mukhina

russia deploying knockoffs ukraine's vampire heavy bomber drones — 81st brigade has already shot down five · post russian hexacopter drone resembling filmed over sloviansk axis 2026 dron-bombarduvalnyk-2- forces have

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Russia is deploying knockoffs of Ukraine’s Vampire heavy bomber drones — and the 81st Brigade has already shot down five

The heavy hexacopters — the type Russian troops themselves nicknamed "Baba Yaga" — have been appearing over the Sloviansk axis for several weeks now, with more expected.

byYuri Zoria

russia launched 4 mach 9 anti-ship missiles ukraine's power grid — air defenses downed two 52 62 drones · post zircon missile launch warship russian defense ministry militarnyi polish_20260120_110147292 attacked

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Russia launched 4 “Mach 9” anti-ship missiles at Ukraine’s power grid — air defenses downed two and 52 of 62 drones

The Zircon was designed to sink US Navy warships, not hit power substations — yet Russia again fired them from occupied Crimea at Ukrainian energy infrastructure alongside nightly Shahed attack drones.

byYuri Zoria

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US long withheld this €37 million radar. Spain just delivered it to Ukraine

Spain delivers NATO-tested, eastern flank-deployed radar to Ukraine.

byOlena Mukhina

Ukrainian air defense

Russia’s jet drones fly near 600 km/h now. Ukraine is building simulators for the 900 km/h ones it expects next

Modern war that the US is not ready for: For the price of one American cruise missile, Russia builds 20 “poor-man” drones and missiles

A fourth Ukrainian pharmaceutical warehouse has burned in a Russian strike since the start of the month

Spain keeps arming Ukraine against Russia’s ballistic missiles—and promises even more

190 or 580 Patriot missiles? What Ukraine’s EU-loan request could buy—and why Washington still decides

Russia is secretly building a mortar-launched drone-killer—and a resistance group just leaked the blueprints

AI against AI over Ukraine: Russia’s Shahed now sees its target, and Ukraine’s interceptor sees Shahed

Ukraine is building its own ballistic interceptor for $700,000 per shot. Eight countries may join project

Ukraine took Soviet Strela-10 and built its own air-defense system on it. RYF is already guarding sky

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

Russia’s monthly ballistic-missile production now exceeds Lockheed Martin’s PAC-3 production. And it takes 2-3 interceptors to stop one Iskander, says expert

Russian showed his military ID in mud and declared him dead. He survived and went back for gun

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

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)

Ukraine deploys AI-powered turret that can shoot down FPVs. Operator’s only job is to press button to confirm strike

Ukraine’s air defense intercepted nearly 6,000 Russian aerial targets in April — at 90% effectiveness rate

Russia is deploying knockoffs of Ukraine’s Vampire heavy bomber drones — and the 81st Brigade has already shot down five

Russia launched 4 “Mach 9” anti-ship missiles at Ukraine’s power grid — air defenses downed two and 52 of 62 drones

US long withheld this €37 million radar. Spain just delivered it to Ukraine

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