Tag: Ukraine
Kyiv Hit by Massive Ballistic Attack
Russia launched one of its most massive ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv overnight into July 19, killing one person and injuring 16 others across the capital and surrounding region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Zelenskyy wrote that Russian forces fired more than 40 missiles of various types, most aimed at the…
Ukraine Hits Two Wildberries Logistics Centers in Russia
Ukrainian drones struck two Wildberries logistics centers in Russia overnight into July 18, hitting facilities in Kotovsk, Tambov Oblast, and Elektrostal, Moscow region, according to the Kyiv Independent.Tambov Oblast Governor Yevgeny Pervyshov said seven people were killed and 24 injured in the Kotovsk strike, which hit the facility during a…
Russia Intensifies Attacks on Black Sea Shipping
Russian strikes on Ukraine's Black Sea ports have repeatedly hit foreign-flagged civilian merchant vessels over the past week, killing at least seven people and wounding eight more in a series of attacks that has increased risks for commercial shipping serving Ukraine.On the morning of July 17, Russian forces used attack…
Ukraine’s Naval Drones Disable 23 Shadow Fleet Ships
Ukraine struck 23 vessels tied to Russia's shadow fleet over two nights, while parallel strikes hit a railway hub in occupied Kerch, in what commander Robert "Madyar" Brovdi describes as a campaign to disable rather than destroy Moscow's sanctions-evading logistics.Brovdi, head of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, said operators struck 11…
Drone Warfare Is Becoming One Global Battlefield
Drones are no longer supporting weapons used alongside artillery, aircraft and missiles. Across several of the world's most active conflicts, they now shape how forces find targets, hold territory at risk, protect infrastructure and impose costs on opponents.Ukraine remains the most important testing ground. Its armed forces and defense-technology sector…
Russia Gains From Iran War Without Fighting
Russia's Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, offered perhaps the clearest insight into Moscow's thinking from a podium rather than a battlefield. Briefing reporters on July 15, Peskov said the Kremlin was watching Washington's growing preoccupation with the war against Iran, suggesting the conflict had inevitably shifted American attention away from Ukraine.…
Finland Goes Underground as Russia Rearms
On November 30, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland. Its bombers hit Helsinki that same day. What then became known as the Winter War lasted barely three months. Finland did not surrender, but paid heavily for survival: it ceded roughly a tenth of its territory and spent the Cold War…
Moscow Blames Ukraine as Mali Allies Falter
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy Borisenko has accused Ukrainian military personnel of creating a “second front” against Russia in Africa, naming Mali and Libya.Borisenko told TASS that Ukrainians were training Islamist fighters in Mali to use drones and alleged that Ukrainian instructors helped attack the Russian tanker Arktik Metagaz off…
Ukraine Claims Tu-95 Destroyed at Engels
Ukraine said on Friday that Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) drones destroyed a Russian Tu-95 strategic bomber at Engels-2 air base in Russia's Saratov region, extending Kyiv's campaign to eliminate aircraft Moscow uses for cruise-missile attacks before takeoff.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the bomber had been used for strikes on…
CIA: Ukrainian Drones Outpace Russian Mobilization
CIA Director John Ratcliffe said CIA intelligence estimates Russian recruits arriving at the front in Ukraine survive 20 to 30 minutes, attributing the attrition to Ukrainian AI-guided attack drones.“The average life expectancy of a Russian recruit right now, arriving on the battlefield in Ukraine, is estimated to be between 20…
