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Ukraine Hits Volgograd Oil Facility as Overnight Strikes Keep Pressure on Russian Energy Network
Ukraine’s General Staff said its forces struck an oil preparation and pumping station in Russia’s Volgograd region overnight, while Russian officials reported a deadly drone-related fire at a Black Sea export terminal in Krasnodar. Ukraine has reported a new overnight…
Ukraine’s Reported $20bn Arms Request Puts Drone War and Air Defence at Centre of Allied Support Debate
Ukraine’s reported plan to seek a further $20bn in military support from its partners places a clear question before Kyiv’s allies: whether they can turn political support into predictable weapons production at the pace required by the war. The figure…
Crimea’s Growing Isolation Exposes Russia’s Strategic Miscalculation
The latest overnight attacks on Russian-occupied Crimea have again exposed the peninsula’s central military weakness: its dependence on vulnerable supply routes linking it to occupied parts of southern Ukraine and to Russia itself. Strikes around Armyansk, following earlier damage to…
Ukraine’s Flamingo Strike on Cheboksary Exposes Pressure on Russia’s Military Electronics Base
Ukraine’s reported long-range strike on the VNIIR-Progress defence electronics plant in Cheboksary has underlined Kyiv’s growing ability to reach Russian military-industrial targets deep inside the country and disrupt the production chain behind Moscow’s missile and drone attacks. The plant, located…
China and Taiwan’s Maritime Stand-off Signals a Dangerous New Phase
China and Taiwan’s latest confrontation over coast guard patrols east of the island underlines an increasingly volatile reality in the western Pacific: the battle for influence is no longer confined to fighter jets crossing median lines or naval exercises in…
Russia Modifies Kalibr Missiles with Cluster Warheads and Imported Electronics, Ukraine Says
Russia has modified the Kalibr cruise missiles used in attacks on Ukraine, fitting some of them with cluster warheads and returning to imported electronic components after an apparent attempt to rely on Russian-made parts, according to a detailed technical assessment…
Russia From Stalin to Putin: Why Europe’s Centre-Right Sees a Disturbing Continuity
Eighty-five years after the Soviet Union carried out the mass deportations that scarred the Baltic states and reshaped Eastern Europe, European politicians are drawing uncomfortable parallels between the crimes of the Stalinist era and Vladimir Putin’s conduct in Ukraine. The…
Ukraine Strikes Chonhar Bridge Again as Crimea Supply Routes Come Under Renewed Pressure
Ukraine has again targeted the Chonhar bridge, one of the road links connecting occupied Crimea with Russian-held territory in southern Ukraine, in what appears to be part of a wider effort to disrupt Moscow’s military logistics on the peninsula. The…
EU prepares €5.9bn drone payout for Ukraine after Hungary lifts veto
EU defence ministers have moved Ukraine support towards battlefield delivery, with a first €5.9bn drone payout expected this month and Hungary lifting its veto on €6.6bn in blocked military-support funds. The European Union is preparing to channel the first €5.9bn…
Ukraine develops autonomous drone technology to intercept Shahed attacks
Kyiv says a Brave1-backed system can automate most of the process of intercepting Russian Shahed-type attack drones, as Ukraine seeks cheaper and faster ways to strengthen its layered air defence. Ukraine has developed a drone-interceptor technology capable of autonomously engaging…