While Russian diplomats talked peace, Russian factories produced 7 million artillery rounds in 2025 - up from 400,000 four years earlier - and began replenishing strategic stockpiles depleted in the first two years of the war against Ukraine, Estonia's Foreign Intelligence Service reports
Intelligence agencies from two NATO countries have identified Russian efforts to develop anti-satellite weapons that would use clouds of millimeter-sized pellets to disable multiple Starlink satellites,
Direct European-Ukrainian defense production partnerships would prove more effective than repeated requests to Washington that often go unfulfilled, according to Mason Clark
Monthly production of Ukraine's Bohdana artillery system has reached 40 units, four times the rate recorded in May 2024, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
Danish Defense Minister Tannounced $1.6 bn in Ukrainian weapons contracts, favoring manufacturers who deliver "in months, not years" over European competitors.
Andrius Kubilius moved from spring concerns about lukewarm EU support for Ukraine's defence investments to declaring their intentions to tap €150 bn in EU defence loans "quite soon."
Ukraine has increased its cruise missile production eightfold in 2024 while developing 324 new weapons systems, the Ministry of Strategic Industries said