Russia starts hauling gasoline to the front in the trunks of civilian cars
A convoy of sedans packed with jerrycans set out from Kizilyurt in Dagestan to supply Russian troops in occupied Tokmak, shows a video the soldiers filmed themselves.
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“Nuclear blackmail” – IAEA reports attack on power infrastructure tied to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Ukraine says only demilitarization can restore safety at the occupied facility.
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.
A Russian munitions cargo ship hit at the same Berdiansk berth two nights running
A second Ukrainian unit struck a vessel at the dock in the same occupied port a night after the first, both targeting Russia's sea-supply route.
Russian radar didn’t see Ukrainian drones coming. It became the 28th Russian air-defense asset wrecked this May
In addition to the ST-68 air-surveillance radar, Ukraine struck another Panrsir anti-air system, a fuel train, and multiple military trucks in the land corridor to occupied Crimea.
ISW: Russian generals feed the Kremlin a false picture: leaked map claims towns that were never captured
Russian milbloggers complain that false reports of captured ground trigger pointless assaults to seize places the maps already show as Russian-controlled.
Ukraine destroyed a Russian S-300 launcher, rare radar, and fuel tank cars in occupied Donetsk in one day
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces also struck multiple ammo and logistics depots, a field artillery store, and one of Russia's largest drones, the Merlin-VR reconnaissance UAV, on 24 May 2026.
A one-meter gas pipe, a scooter, and a surrender: how a Russian assault group became POWs
The men, captured in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, said their command sealed the pipe shut behind every group that went in. Three more Russians give up near Kharkiv's Vovchansk.
One radar sees 250 km out. The other measures altitude at 300 km range. Ukraine’s drones just took both out in Donetsk Oblast
Ukraine drone forces and SOF reported more of their middle-range strike across the occupied territories. Targets: radars, fuel depots, bases.
Buk, Tor, Kasta, Tunguska—Russia’s air defense menu shrinks by $131 million in another seven days
The destruction came in the drone forces' strikes across occupied Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Russia's Bryansk Oblast over the past week.
Pantsir and Tor anti-air systems, two radars: what Ukraine’s drone forces destroyed in the first 48 hours of May
The 1-2 May haul follows 38 Russian air defense and radar units the same forces destroyed in April alone, the SBS commander reported.
Ukrainian Navy “Angels” extract Russian-tortured civilian helper from occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast
The man hid wounded Ukrainian troops and passed intelligence in occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast before being detained, tortured, and sentenced to five years and three months.
Ukraine drone forces expand kill zone into occupied regions, commander says: Russia’s trains, comms towers, and depots struck
FP-2 mid-range drones did the work across occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts between 23 and 25 April, the SBS commander said.
Russia blacked out Europe’s largest nuclear plant 15 times since occupying it in 2022
The latest outage hit on the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster, with Energoatom saying external power failed for 90 minutes.
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.
Russia is pulling strategic reserves to prop up a failing offensive, HUR says — and 20,000 troops is less than one month of its own losses
Moscow's military missed its self-imposed April deadline to seize three Donetsk Oblast cities, now it wants the rest of the region captured by September.
“Storm a treeline? Better to just take it apart with a Vampire” — drone battalion commander on how war changed in 2026
Maksym, call sign "Rumyn," says the kill zone has grown from 3 km to "many times larger" — and explains what that means for infantry .
Ukraine’s drone forces count their air defense kills by the fortnight — 12 in the first two weeks of April alone
BS commander Robert Brovdi's video release shows the pace of Ukraine's systematic anti-air campaign: Tor-M1s in Mariupol and Luhansk, a Pantsir-S1 in Donetsk Oblast, rear bases, ammo depots — four units, 14 days, 12 systems.
Ukraine hit Crimea’s key fuel hub and struck deep into Luhansk Oblast — while clearing more air defenses across the occupied south
The Feodosiia Marine Oil Terminal fire was visible over 20 km away and confirmed by NASA FIRMS; in separate strikes that week, Ukrainian forces also destroyed a Buk-M3, Tor-M2, and a Zoopark-1M radar Brovdi called "a fierce enemy" of Ukrainian artillery.
Russia’s buffer zone wishlist now includes Vinnytsia — via Moldova’s Transnistria, Ukrainian official says
Zelenskyy's office deputy chief Palisa said this is the first time such plans have been recorded, though he stressed Russia currently lacks the forces to act on any of its territorial ambitions.