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323 articles shownof 323 totalLast updated 2026-09-06 13:47 UTC
ua defense 7 19h ago 4 min read

Ukraine Lost $1.2 Billion to Fraud in 2024 as Kyiv Now Faces a Budget Gap Topping $27 Billion

Military procurement audits found $1.2 billion in fraud and waste in Ukraine's defense spending for 2024, according to the New York Times, even as Kyiv now warns of a budget shortfall between $27 billion and $32.6 billion heading into winter. Washington says 24 federal agencies oversee U.S. aid, but nobody has explained why contractors flagged in the audits kept winning new contracts.

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ua economy 5 19h ago 4 min read

Ukraine's Parliament Weighs Legalizing Pornography to Tax a $131 Million OnlyFans Industry

Ukraine's finance committee chairman Yaroslav Zhelezniak says legalizing porn could raise $25 million a year, enough for 30,000 drones. That's a rounding error against the $120 billion Kyiv says it needs annually for defense, but lawmakers argue the current law is unenforceable and just drives creators and their tax dollars abroad.

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ua finance 8 1d ago 4 min read

Witkoff and Kushner Leave Putin in Moscow, Head to Kyiv Next as Iran War Grinds On

Trump's envoys got three hours with Putin and a temporary halt on long-range strikes against Kyiv and Moscow, but Putin rejected a broader ceasefire Ukraine proposed. Meanwhile Trump says the U.S. can hit Iran again anytime, diesel just hit a record $5.88 a gallon, and Iran-backed militias are threatening to kill any U.S. troops left in Iraq after September 30.

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ua politics 8 1d ago 3 min read

Kremlin Says Witkoff-Kushner Talks Ran Three Hours, Insists Russia Still Confident of Taking All of Eastern Ukraine

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Vladimir Putin for over three hours in Moscow on Saturday, September 5, with the Kremlin calling the talks 'extremely frank' and saying the Americans floated a 'number of ideas' for ending the war. Moscow also told the envoys it's confident it can still seize the rest of eastern Ukraine by force, a claim that undercuts any notion Russia is negotiating from weakness.

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ua defense 9 1d ago 3 min read

Witkoff and Kushner Meet Putin in Moscow as Kremlin Halts Kyiv Strikes for 72 Hours

After their planned Kyiv trip stalled this week over security guarantees, U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner landed in Moscow Saturday and are set to meet Vladimir Putin before heading to Kyiv Sunday. Putin ordered a 72-hour halt on strikes against Kyiv for the visit, but Russian attacks killed five people elsewhere in Ukraine the same day.

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ua finance 8 1d ago 4 min read

Ukraine Pushes EU to Strip Belgium of Control Over €210 Billion in Frozen Russian Assets

Kyiv's finance minister wants the EU to move Russian central bank reserves out of Belgium's Euroclear depository and into an EU-owned custodian, shifting legal liability from one member state to all 27. Belgium says nothing has changed since it killed a similar plan last December, and the European Commission still isn't sold. Ukraine says it's facing a $32.6 billion shortfall and can't wait for Brussels to sort out who takes the legal risk.

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ru defense 7 1d ago 4 min read

Russia Claims Strikes on Ukrainian Cargo Ships at Chornomorsk and Odesa as MSC Halts Novorossiysk Bookings

Russia's defense ministry says it hit two military-supply vessels at Chornomorsk and cargo ships off Odesa, while on the other side of the Black Sea, MSC has suspended container bookings for Russia's Novorossiysk port after one of its own ships was hit by a Ukrainian drone. Neither side's shipping lanes are safe anymore, and no outside party has independently verified Moscow's latest claims.

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ua politics 8 2d ago 3 min read

Witkoff and Kushner's First-Ever Kyiv Trip Stalls Over Security Guarantees as Russia Hits Ukraine's Spy Agency HQ

A weekend trip by Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow and Kyiv, which would be their first-ever joint visit to the Ukrainian capital, remains uncertain as the U.S. seeks commitments from both Moscow and Kyiv to guarantee the envoys' safety before they travel, according to Reuters. Hours before the planned announcement, a Russian drone hit the headquarters of Ukraine's SBU security service in Kyiv, and Zelensky proposed a mutual ceasefire to cover the visit itself.

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ru defense 8 2d ago 4 min read

Russian Drone Hits Ukraine's SBU Headquarters in Kyiv, Wounding Up to 12, Days Before US-Brokered Talks

A Russian drone struck the Kyiv headquarters of Ukraine's Security Service on Friday, September 4, hitting the floor housing chief Oleksandr Poklad's office and wounding between five and twelve people depending on the count. The strike lands days before US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are scheduled to shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv for renewed cease-fire talks, and Kyiv says it plans to hit back in kind.

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ua politics 8 3d ago 4 min read

Kushner and Witkoff Reportedly Set for First-Ever Trip to Kyiv as Kremlin Calls Trilateral Summit Pointless

Zelensky says Trump's envoys have preliminary dates to visit Kyiv and Moscow, which would be Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff's first trip to the Ukrainian capital in the whole process. The Kremlin is meanwhile shutting down talk of a three-way Trump-Putin-Zelensky summit, and Kyiv says it wasn't even told about a Treasury-level meeting with Moscow at last week's G20.

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us defense 7 3d ago 4 min read

Trump Says He'll Bill Europe Retroactively for Ukraine Aid, While Analysts Warn Munition Stocks Won't Recover Until 2029-2031

Hours after calling munitions-shortage reporting 'treasonous,' Trump added a new demand Thursday: European nations should pay the U.S. back for Biden-era Ukraine aid they never agreed to fund. Meanwhile CSIS estimates cited by Axios show Patriot and THAAD interceptor stocks won't hit prewar levels until 2029, and Tomahawks not until 2030 or 2031.

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ua defense 8 3d ago 4 min read

Denmark Says Russia Is Recruiting Ordinary Danes to Sabotage Defense Firms Supplying Ukraine

Denmark's PET intelligence service says Russia has moved from planning to active preparation for sabotage against Danish defense companies tied to Ukraine aid, recruiting citizens through social media and gaming apps to scout targets. Moscow's ambassador to Copenhagen calls the claims evidence-free and blames Denmark's own support for Ukraine for putting Danes at risk. Neither side has produced public proof settling the dispute, but the warning lands one month after an explosive-laden drone was found on a German runway.

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ua defense 7 3d ago 4 min read

Ukraine's Drone War Now Consumes 4% of World Germanium Supply, and China Still Refines Nearly All of It

A new BMO Capital Markets report finds the roughly 15 million drones expected on Russian and Ukrainian battlefields this year are eating up 4% of global germanium demand, on top of the metal China already controls almost completely. Western governments are pledging billions for mines and processing plants, but the new capacity mostly won't come online until 2028 or later, and China's suspended export ban on the U.S. is set to expire November 27, 2026.

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ru defense 8 3d ago 4 min read

Russia Fires Nearly 1,500 Drones at Ukraine Over Four Days, Wipes Out 90% of Retail Food Logistics

Russia has hammered Kyiv and surrounding regions for six straight days with jet-powered drones and missiles, killing dozens and destroying most of the food distribution network run by Ukraine's retail chains, according to Ukrainian officials. U.S.-brokered peace talks remain stalled, though Zelenskyy says he had a constructive call with envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner this week.

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ua energy 7 3d ago 4 min read

Rosatom Signs Nuclear Deals With Turkey, Kazakhstan and Iran While Its Seized Ukrainian Plant Runs on Generators

Russia's state nuclear firm Rosatom is locking in decades-long power plant contracts with Turkey, Kazakhstan, Iran and soon Armenia, a form of leverage that Western sanctions can't easily touch. Meanwhile the Zaporizhzhia plant Russia seized in Ukraine has been without outside power for more than a week and is running on 10 days of diesel, according to the IAEA. Same country, same industry, two very different pictures of what Russian nuclear control looks like up close.

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ua finance 7 3d ago 4 min read

Norway Seizes Russian Cruise Ship in Svalbard to Enforce $4.22 Billion Ukraine Award

Norwegian authorities detained the Russian state-owned vessel Professor Molchanov in the Arctic on behalf of Ukraine's Naftogaz, which won a $4.22 billion Hague arbitration award over Russia's 2014 seizure of its Crimean assets. Moscow calls it piracy and says it will appeal. This is one seizure in a growing pattern of European countries going after Russian ships to force payment Russia has refused for three years.

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ua energy 8 4d ago 4 min read

Bessent Blames Ukraine's Refinery Strikes for Global Energy Price Surge as EU Fights Over Russian Assets

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on September 2 that Ukraine's drone strikes on Russian refineries are pushing global energy prices higher, alongside the Iran war. The same day, Belgium blocked a fresh EU push to seize €210 billion in frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, showing the war's costs are now splitting Washington and Brussels alike.

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ua defense 8 4d ago 3 min read

Zelensky Tells Airlines to Avoid Russian Airspace, Kyiv Formally Warns UN Aviation Body

Ukraine's president says Russian skies are becoming too dangerous for commercial flights as Kyiv ramps up long-range drone strikes, and Ukraine has now formally notified the UN's aviation agency. Putin calls it "state terrorism" and vows bigger strikes on Ukraine's power grid this winter. Moscow airports are already seeing real cancellations, but Chinese, Turkish and Gulf carriers are still flying through anyway.

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ua tech 6 5d ago 4 min read

Ousted Ukraine Defense Minister Fedorov Launches Arms-Tech Startup With Palantir's Alex Karp as First Investor

Mykhailo Fedorov, pushed out as Ukraine's defense minister in July after clashing with the country's top general, announced a new defense tech company on September 1 with Palantir CEO Alex Karp as lead investor. The venture has no name, no disclosed funding amount, and no product yet, but it deepens Karp's already heavy footprint in Ukraine's war effort right as Palantir posts record growth and lines up a nine-figure no-bid Pentagon deal.

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ru defense 8 5d ago 3 min read

Russia Hits Ukraine-Romania Border Crossing and Odesa Port Infrastructure in Overnight Barrage

Russian drones and missiles shut down the Orlivka ferry crossing into Romania and hit export infrastructure in Odesa overnight into September 1, part of a combined attack Ukraine's Air Force says included 218 Shahed-type drones and multiple missile types. One person was killed in Kherson, five others were injured, and Ukraine's main Black Sea trade route keeps taking hits.

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ua defense 7 6d ago 4 min read

Ukraine Fires Nearly 800 Drones at Russia in Second-Largest Barrage as Kharkiv Strike Kills 10

Ukraine launched close to 800 drones at Russia overnight into Tuesday, the second-largest such attack since January 2025, while a Russian missile strike on Kharkiv killed at least 10 people. Both sides are now trading record-setting long-range strikes with no battlefield breakthrough in sight, and Kyiv's campaign runs increasingly through American tech it doesn't fully control.

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ua economy 7 6d ago 4 min read

Bessent Tells Russia's Finance Chief: No Deals Until Ukraine War Ends, as Modi Also Presses Putin to Stop Fighting

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov at the G20 in Asheville and told him flatly there's no economic relief coming until Moscow ends the war. Same day, India's Narendra Modi pushed Putin directly for a ceasefire, and Moscow fired its own top economist for admitting Russia is losing the economic war of attrition.

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us defense 8 6d ago 4 min read

Kyiv Death Toll Hits Nine as NATO Scrambles Jets, Trump Welcomes Russian Finance Minister to G20

Russia's sixth straight night of strikes on Kyiv killed nine people early Tuesday, prompting NATO to scramble jets over the Baltics while Finland and Estonia restricted airspace. Meanwhile in Asheville, North Carolina, the Trump administration let Russia's finance minister sit in on G20 talks over EU objections, and Ukraine's spy agency released a technical teardown of Russia's Zircon missile showing it flies slower than Moscow claims.

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us politics 8 Aug 31 4 min read

Kremlin Says No Point in Trump-Zelensky-Putin Summit Without a Deal Already Signed

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says a three-way summit only makes sense to formalize an agreement already reached, not to negotiate one. That comes days after CIA Director John Ratcliffe secretly floated the idea in Moscow, and while Ukrainian officials warn Putin is preparing a new offensive instead of a deal.

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ua economy 8 Aug 31 4 min read

Zelensky's Presidential Office Chief Kyrylo Budanov Surfaces in Corruption Case Wiretaps, Says 'Let the Court Sort It Out'

Since NABU fired deputy office head Iryna Mudra on Aug. 19 over a $3.4 million money-laundering probe, the scandal has crept closer to the top: wiretap transcripts reported by Hromadske now place Kyrylo Budanov, who now runs Zelensky's Presidential Office, on calls with suspects. Budanov isn't charged and denies nothing specific, but the timing is brutal for a government also facing a public call for wartime elections and renewed U.S. scrutiny of $67.8 billion in aid.

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us defense 7 Aug 30 4 min read

Ukrainian Drone Teams Wiped Out a US Armor Brigade in War Games, and the Pentagon Just Sent Poland Through the Same Ukraine Playbook

A Wall Street Journal report detailed how Ukrainian drone operators eliminated a US Army armored brigade during war games in Germany this spring, exposing gaps in American counter-drone readiness. Days later, US Green Berets ran Polish special forces through a Ukraine-inspired infiltration and drone-strike drill at the same training complex, part of a broader push across Europe and Korea to retrofit NATO and allied militaries with lessons from Ukraine's drone war.

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ua defense 8 Aug 30 4 min read

Zelensky Puts Azov and Third Corps Commanders Over Donbas Defense as Estimates Split on When Kramatorsk Falls

Volodymyr Zelensky has installed two of Ukraine's most prominent field commanders, Andrii Biletskyi and Denys Prokopenko, to run new defensive groupings around Kramatorsk and Sloviansk after sidelining armed forces chief Oleksandr Syrskyi. European intelligence sources cited by WELT put a Russian breakthrough at early 2027, while Ukrainian commanders on the ground told Baltic Sentinel it could happen by the end of this year, a split that says a lot about how murky this fight actually is.

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ua defense 8 Aug 30 4 min read

Kyiv-Area Strike Death Toll Climbs to 37 as Ukraine Confirms 34 Died at Care Home

The confirmed toll from Friday night's Russian strike on an ammunition warehouse near Kyiv has risen to 37, with Ukrainian officials now saying 34 of the dead were residents of a nearby care home. Russia kept hitting Kyiv and Kherson through the weekend while Zelensky's government opened a criminal negligence probe into why explosives were stored next to civilians in the first place.

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tr defense 7 Aug 29 4 min read

Turkey Summons Ukraine's Ambassador After Drone Strikes Hit Two Turkish-Operated Ships in the Black Sea

Turkey called in Ukraine's ambassador Naryman Dzhelialov on Saturday after drone strikes damaged the Turkish-operated Lider Bordo Mavi and Lider Kocatepe this week near the Russian port of Tuapse. Ukraine has not claimed responsibility, and Turkish outlets disagree on whether anyone was actually hurt, but Ankara says at least 22 Turkish-linked vessels have been hit in two months and wants both sides to stop.

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ua defense 8 Aug 29 4 min read

27 Dead in Kyiv Region After Russian Drone Hits Warehouse Storing Ammunition Near Homes

A Russian drone strike touched off a chain of explosions at a warehouse in Myla, near Bucha, killing at least 27 people and injuring 42, including four children. Ukrainian prosecutors are now investigating why explosive materials were stored next to residential buildings, the second such deadly failure in two months.

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ru defense 7 Aug 28 4 min read

Russia Batters Kyiv Region With Drones for Second Straight Day as Zelenskyy Vows 1,000 Daily Strikes Back

Since Thursday's 15-hour air raid lockdown of Kyiv, Russian drones have hit apartment buildings and warehouses for a second straight day, killing at least one and wounding dozens across Ukraine. Zelenskyy responded by ordering a threefold jump in long-range strikes on Russia, to 1,000 drones a day, while CIA Director John Ratcliffe's rare visit to Moscow raises fresh questions about where the peace talks actually stand.

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ua defense 7 Aug 28 4 min read

Ukraine Says Russia Is Preparing to Mobilize 600,000 Troops as Battlefield Losses Outpace Recruitment

Ukrainian intelligence says Russia has already decided to call up 300,000 troops this year and another 300,000 in 2027, after losing roughly 240,000 personnel in just the first half of 2026. Western officials separately estimate Moscow is losing about 6,000 more troops monthly than it can recruit. None of this has been independently verified outside Ukrainian and allied intelligence claims.

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ua finance 7 Aug 27 4 min read

Sweden, Netherlands, Spain and Poland Push EU to Revive €210 Billion Russian Asset Plan for Ukraine

Four EU countries sent a letter Thursday demanding Brussels restart work on using frozen Russian central bank assets to fund Ukraine, with the issue set for the September 1-2 foreign ministers meeting. Belgium, which holds most of the €210 billion at Euroclear, hasn't budged from blocking the plan over legal liability fears. Nobody's proposed a fix that actually solves that problem.

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ua economy 7 Aug 27 4 min read

Putin Lets State Seize Damaged Refineries as Ukraine's Drone Strikes Pile Up, While India Chases $100 Billion in Russia Trade

Putin signed a decree letting Russia's government temporarily take over critical infrastructure that owners fail to protect or rebuild after Ukrainian drone strikes. Days later, India's foreign minister was in Moscow pushing for $100 billion in trade by 2030, a stark reminder that Western sanctions haven't isolated Russia the way Washington and Brussels hoped.

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ru defense 8 Aug 27 4 min read

Russia and Ukraine Trade Record Drone and Missile Barrages as Air War Eclipses Ground Fighting

Ukraine and Russia are hammering each other with hundreds of drones and missiles a week while the front line barely moves. Civilians on both sides are dying, warehouses and refineries are burning, and Western allies just met in Kyiv to talk air defense, not peace.

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us energy 7 Aug 27 4 min read

India Cuts Russian Crude as Ukrainian Strikes and U.S. Pressure Squeeze Moscow's Exports

Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian refineries and ports, not just Trump's tariff threats, are the main reason Indian refiners are pulling back on Russian oil this month. India is also buying more American, Venezuelan and West African crude, but Kpler data shows Russia still supplies more of India's oil than anyone else.

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ua economy 8 Aug 26 4 min read

Zelensky Says Ukraine Is €23 Billion Short on Defense Cash, EU Balks at Frontloading 2027 Loan Money

Ukraine's Defense Ministry has a €23 billion hole this year after spending next period's money early, and President Zelensky wants the EU to release 2027 loan funds ahead of schedule to cover it. Brussels says it hasn't gotten an official request and isn't rushing to blow up the payment schedule it fought Hungary to lock in. Meanwhile Ukraine's own parliament is sitting on 24 reform bills tied to the money.

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ua defense 6 Aug 26 4 min read

Ukraine Replaces Tanks with Robots in Independence Day Parade, Rolls Out $1 Billion Custom Drone Marketplace

Ukraine marked its 35th Independence Day on August 24 with what Defence Blog called the world's first military parade built entirely around unmanned systems: ground robots, naval drones, and UAVs replacing tanks and marching troops. Separately, Ukraine's Brave1 defense platform disclosed that military units have spent roughly $1 billion ordering custom-built drones, underscoring how deeply autonomous systems have taken over Ukraine's war effort.

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ua finance 7 Aug 26 4 min read

EU Sends $1.62 Billion in Frozen Russian Asset Interest to Ukraine as Kremlin's Own Economist Warns of Losing War of Attrition

The European Commission transferred $1.62 billion in interest earned on frozen Russian central bank assets to Ukraine on August 3, the fifth such payment, bringing the total to $9.23 billion. Days later, Russia fired its own state bank chief economist after he told a Moscow forum that Russia is losing the economic war to the West and even to Ukraine. The two stories, taken together, are the clearest sign yet that sanctions are grinding on Moscow even as Russia insists it's fine.

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ua energy 8 Aug 26 4 min read

Ukrainian Drone Strikes Are Cutting Off Russia's Oil Exports and India Is Feeling It

Ukraine's drone campaign has knocked out roughly a third to 40% of Russian refining capacity, forcing Moscow to import gasoline while India scrambles for oil elsewhere. Trump's tariff threats over Russian crude purchases get the credit in some coverage, but the numbers show the real driver is Ukraine blowing up the supply itself.

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gb politics 7 Aug 26 4 min read

UK PM Andy Burnham Plans September Trip to Push Trump on Patriot Missiles for Ukraine

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he will travel to New York next month, likely around the UN General Assembly, to lean on Trump for access to U.S. Patriot interceptor stockpiles. Ukraine's air defense has been gutted by the war and made worse by U.S. diversions to the Middle East, and Trump has already turned down one request for hundreds of interceptors.

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ua energy 8 Aug 25 4 min read

Ukraine's Drone Campaign Kills 15 in Russia in One Day, Pushes Crude Exports Down as Putin Signs Seizure Decree

Ukraine hit an oil hub 750 miles inside Russia and struck the Afipsky refinery again, killing at least 15 people across two attacks Monday and Tuesday. Bloomberg data shows Russian crude exports actually falling despite refinery damage that should be freeing up more oil to sell, because drone strikes on tankers and ports are choking the export side too.

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ua defense 6 Aug 25 4 min read

Britain Gets Access to Ukraine's Battlefield AI Data, Hands Kyiv Storm Shadow Missile Secrets in Return

Andy Burnham signed a deal in Kyiv Monday giving the UK first-outside-Ukraine access to the Avengers Labs battlefield data trove, meant to train AI that spots saboteurs and protesters at British bases. In exchange, Britain is sharing classified Storm Shadow missile components so Ukraine can build the long-range weapon domestically. The Kremlin called it Britain adding fuel to the fire; Burnham's answer was blunt: who started the fire.

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gb defense 8 Aug 24 2 min read Updated

New UK PM Andy Burnham Hands Ukraine Missile Blueprints on First Foreign Trip, Days After Deadly Kryvyi Rih Strike

Andy Burnham marked Ukraine's Independence Day in Kyiv by announcing Britain will let defense firm MBDA declassify UK component data for the Storm Shadow/SCALP missile, so Ukraine and France can build the weapon locally. It's a real escalation in Western material support, and it comes as Ukraine still can't get enough Patriot interceptors and Russia is threatening nuclear doctrine changes over exactly this kind of long-range strike capability.

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ua defense 8 Aug 24 4 min read

Ukraine Deploys AI-Guided Drones That Pick Targets Without a Human Pulling the Trigger

Ukraine's Saker Scout drones are now hunting and killing Russian targets in autonomous mode on a limited scale, according to New Scientist, marking the first documented use of fully autonomous lethal weapons in war. The technology is reshaping the battlefield faster than anyone can regulate it, and nobody in Washington, Kyiv, or Moscow has a real answer for what comes next.

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ua defense 7 Aug 24 4 min read

Nvidia Chip Made in March 2025 Found in Russian Cruise Missile, Ukraine Says

Ukrainian military intelligence says it pulled an Nvidia Jetson Orin NX module, packaged in March 2025, from the wreckage of a Russian S-71M cruise missile recovered in August 2026. Nvidia says it doesn't sell to Russia and left the market in 2022, meaning the chip almost certainly moved through a resale or transshipment network sanctions haven't closed.

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ua defense 7 Aug 24 4 min read

EU Approves 6.1 Billion Euros More for Ukraine Air Defense, Timed to Independence Day

The European Commission signed off on 6.1 billion euros (7.1 billion dollars) in new defense procurement for Ukraine on August 24, funded through the 90 billion euro EU loan finalized in April. The money buys air defense systems, missiles, ammunition and radars while the U.S. has pulled back nearly all its own aid, meaning Europe is now carrying the bulk of the load.

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ua economy 6 Aug 23 3 min read

Norway Pledges $9.2 Billion More to Ukraine for 2027, Flat With 2026 Levels

Norway's government announced Sunday it will ask parliament to approve another 85 billion kroner, about $9.2 billion, for Ukraine in 2027. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store delivered the news in person in Kyiv, and the money keeps flowing whether or not a ceasefire ever materializes.

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ua defense 8 Aug 23 4 min read

Zelensky Says Putin Plans 300,000-Troop Draft After September Elections, Warns Wartime Vote Would Split Ukraine

Zelensky told reporters Sunday that Russia plans a 300,000-man mobilization after its mid-September parliamentary elections, deliberately kept out of major cities to avoid political blowback. He also rejected calls from his ousted defense minister for a wartime election, calling the idea a 'tsunami' that would split the country, while Ukraine faces a $27 billion defense funding gap and a Patriot interceptor shortfall.

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ru defense 7 Aug 23 4 min read

Russian Woman Charged With Bombing That Killed Ex-Ukrainian Submarine Commander in Sevastopol

A 32-year-old Sochi woman, Margarita Reutt, is in Russian custody accused of planting the bomb that killed Robert Shageev, a former Ukrainian submarine commander who defected to Russia in 2014. Russian authorities say she confessed and worked for Ukrainian intelligence, claims that cannot be independently verified and that Kyiv has not confirmed.

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ua defense 8 Aug 22 4 min read

Putin Says Russia Will Hit Ukraine's 'Most Sensitive' Economic Sectors After Drone Strikes on Refineries

Putin declared Ukraine opened a Pandora's box by targeting Russian oil refineries and warehouses, and vowed retaliation against Ukraine's economy, including its grain exports. He also called Ukrainian peace proposals exotic and unacceptable, insisting talks only happen on Russia's terms. The exchange came a day after the Kryvyi Rih shopping mall strike killed 16 people.

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ru defense 6 Aug 22 4 min read

Russia Deploys Microphone-Equipped Ambush Drones To Choke Off Roads Near Ukraine's Front

Russian forces are hiding fiber-optic drones near roads in contested zones and using onboard microphones to detect vehicles by sound before striking, according to Ukrainian defense adviser Serhii Beskrestnov. It's a cheap, low-tech fix to a real problem: the old version of this tactic got spotted from the air. Meanwhile Ukraine's own acoustic-detection firm Zvook just tested a mobile version of similar technology with Latvia's military, showing the same physics cuts both ways.

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ua defense 7 Aug 22 4 min read

Macron Pledges More Interceptor Missiles to Ukraine After Kryvyi Rih Strike Kills 16

France will speed up delivery of interceptor missiles to Ukraine after a Russian drone strike killed 16 people and wounded 130 in Zelensky's hometown of Kryvyi Rih. Macron and Zelensky spoke for nearly two hours, and the French leader also confirmed Paris will license Ukraine to build missiles domestically. It's another incremental step in a war with no ceasefire in sight, days ahead of a Coalition of the Willing meeting in Kyiv.

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ua defense 8 Aug 22 4 min read

Ukraine Hits Russian Refinery and Ozon Warehouse a Day After Kryvyi Rih Mall Attack Killed 16

A day after Russian drones killed 16 people in a double-tap strike on a shopping mall in Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown, Ukraine hit a Russian oil refinery and an Ozon warehouse in retaliation. Russian strikes overnight killed six more people across Ukraine while Kyiv's drone attack killed two children in Russia's Krasnodar region, and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says she'll push the toughest sanctions package yet next month.

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ru defense 6 Aug 22 4 min read

Russia Says It Will Hear New US Ideas on Ukraine, But Only on Putin's Terms

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says Moscow is open to new American proposals to end the Ukraine war, as long as they match Vladimir Putin's goals and the current battlefield reality. Translation: Russia will talk, but has no plans to give up anything it hasn't already taken.

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ru defense 8 Aug 22 4 min read

Russian Drones Hit Shopping Mall in Zelensky's Hometown Twice, Killing 16, Wounding 130

Russian drones struck a mall in Kryvyi Rih on Friday in two waves, the second timed to hit as rescuers arrived. Sixteen dead, more than 130 wounded, nine still missing as of Saturday morning. Zelensky is calling it a terrorist act and promising a response, while Ukraine's allies prepare to meet Monday in Kyiv.

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au defense 6 Aug 21 3 min read

Australian Man Who Joined Ukraine's Army Charged With Trying to Feed Intel to Russia

Vladimir Teslov, a 27-year-old dual Russian-Australian citizen, trained in Russia, then joined Ukraine's military and allegedly tried to pass information on Ukrainian personnel and positions to people he believed were Russian intelligence agents. He's now charged with foreign interference and faces up to 20 years in prison, in a case Australian police say has no known link to their 2024 espionage case against a Brisbane couple.

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ua defense 8 Aug 21 4 min read

Ukraine Running Low on Patriot Interceptors, Wants Musk's OK to Strike Russian Missile Launchers With Starlink Drones

Kyiv is burning through Patriot interceptors faster than allies can supply them, and Zelenskyy is asking Trump to lean on Elon Musk to let Ukraine use Starlink-guided drones up to 200km into Russia. Meanwhile a Ukrainian government watchdog found deficiencies in 93% of bomb shelters inspected nationwide, undercutting the argument that missiles alone would fix civilian protection.

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ua defense 7 Aug 21 4 min read

Ukraine Wants EU Loan Money for Anti-Ballistic Missiles. Brussels Says That's Not the Request Yet.

Kyiv has floated using the EU's 90 billion euro loan to buy anti-ballistic missile systems, but the European Commission says Ukraine's formal requests so far cover only drones, missiles, and aircraft. Meanwhile a Russian strike that killed 16 people in Kyiv is driving the urgency, and Ukraine's own bomb shelter system has failed inspection at a 93% deficiency rate.

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ru defense 8 Aug 21 4 min read

Russia Deploys North Korean Missile Launchers in Voronezh, Putting Seven Ukrainian Regions in Range

Ukrainian military intelligence says Russia has stationed six North Korean missile launchers and roughly 90 North Korean personnel in its Voronezh region, capable of firing up to 120 KN-23, KN-24 and upgraded KN-30 ballistic missiles at seven Ukrainian regions. It's the clearest sign yet that Kim Jong Un's regime isn't just supplying Moscow with weapons anymore, it's setting up shop inside Russia to help fire them.

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