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(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Military 15-kilometer flight into kill zone: Ukraine’s drone rescues wounded soldier by air. Andrii, callsign Donbas, had lost a foot and could not be reached by vehicles. Ukraine turns old BTR into rolling bomb — then drove it straight into Russian lines, battalion commander says. A soldier once walked for days to fetch ammunition under watching drones. The Oleshky truce saved hundreds, but Russia used it to bring fresh

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); A failing Ukrainian brigade has become the army’s leader at coaxing its soldiers back. Over the past year, the 53rd Separate Mechanized Brigade cut unauthorized absences by 70% and now ranks first in the Ground Forces for troops returning to the ranks, after a new command team from the 3rd Army Corps took over a dispersed, position-losing unit, the corps said. The turnaround is the second in a month to come out of th

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); On 2 November, Russian forces struck a school in Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, that local residents used to pick up humanitarian relief, killing 26, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service. The strike was divided into two attacks. After the first blast, they dropped nine more guided bombs on the shelter where people had fled, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. The second blast is the signature of a tacti

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Stranded and wounded for 57 days, a Ukrainian soldier was finally flown out by drone. Andrii, callsign Donbas, 54, had lost a foot and could not be reached by the usual means at a position about two kilometers from the Russian border until fighters of the CODE 9.2 unit used the StarGate aerial evacuation system to lift him out, RBC-Ukraine reports. Getting the wounded off the battlefield has become one of the deadlie

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); A Russian fuel tanker is bound for New York, and Ukrainian activists want it stopped. The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America has launched an urgent campaign urging residents and officials of the state to block the ship, which it says carries about 140,000 tons of Russian diesel and is due at the Port of New York around 6-7 November. The shipment is the first fruit of a US decision to let Russian diesel back onto

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); A prominent US conservative says Russia is buying American media voices against Ukraine. Russia directly or indirectly finances many US media figures to stoke anti-Ukrainian rhetoric, influencer Laura Loomer claimed in an interview with RBC-Ukraine. She suspected that big American podcasters may take Russian money whether they realize it or not, though she offered no evidence. The accusation taps a long argument over

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); A coalition of Ukrainian civil society organizations coordinated by the Agency for Legislative Initiatives presented its third shadow report on Ukraine’s progress under EU accession Chapters 23 and 24 in October. It rates Ukraine’s anti-corruption progress as “limited” and says attempts to pressure anti-corruption staff have not stopped. The European Commission presents its yearly assessment of Ukraine’s progress tow

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Drones may now inflict 40% of Russia’s battlefield losses. The decision to stand up a dedicated Unmanned Systems Forces in 2024 is paying off, and in October it will probably account for the largest single share of the Russians killed and wounded, Colonel Kyrylo Veres, commander of the K-2 brigade, said in an interview with Ukrinform. The figure marks how far Ukraine has shifted the war onto unmanned systems. Russia’

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Ukraine no longer wants to depend on one company in space. It has discussed and is weighing cooperation with Turkiye on satellite technology, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview with CNN Türk, days after he met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkiye. Satellite links are now central to how Ukraine fights, carrying its drones, communications and reconnaissance, and most of that runs on Elon Musk’

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Ukrainian troops have turned a worn-out armored carrier into a crewless bomb on wheels. Engineers fitted an old BTR, a Soviet-type armored personnel carrier, with a remote-control system, packed it with explosives, and drove it into Russian positions, where it detonated, says Andrii Kupriianov, callsign Darwin, a Hero of Ukraine and battalion commander in the 125th Brigade, in an interview with Glavcom. The improvise

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Keeping Moldova out of the European Union does nothing to help Ukraine. Chisinau cannot answer for Kyiv’s internal reforms any more than Ukraine can push through changes in Moldova, Moldovan President Maia Sandu said in an interview with Válasz Online, arguing that stalling her country’s bid does nothing for its neighbor. Moldova and Ukraine have moved toward the EU in step since 2022, with their bids deliberately li

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Trump envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff floated the idea in Moscow and Kyiv in September, with a US intermediary meant to get around European sanctions, The Wall Street Journal reported on 2 November. European capitals resist it, WSJ said. The Kremlin says the plan cannot work for now, and Kyiv had not commented by Monday afternoon. The gas is meant to unlock an energy ceasefire between Moscow and Kyiv before wi

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Russian forces used the six-day ceasefire around occupied Oleshky to rotate units, fortify positions, expand anti-drone protection on roads, and bring up ammunition, Ukraine’s General Staff said on 2 November. US First Lady Melania Trump, who coordinated the truce, wrote that she hoped Oleshky would serve “as a foundation for lasting peace.” The truce ended on 1 November. Sky News could not release the footage until

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Russia continues building the systems that jam Ukraine’s Starlink. The Russians have shielded almost every important site in occupied Crimea with them, and more are being fielded along the front, Serhii Beskrestnov, an electronic-warfare expert known as Flash, who advises Ukraine’s president, says. Starlink is the link many Ukrainian strike and reconnaissance drones use to be flown and to see, so systems that jam it

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Drones hit Transneft’s Samara oil pumping and blending station near the village of Prosvet in Russia’s Samara Oblast overnight on 2 November, Ukrainian defense-news outlet Militarnyi reported. It was at least the fifth attack on the site since 2 October. In September, US President Donald Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop hitting refineries, saying there were “plenty of other targets.” If tha

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Yurii Butusov, a drone-company commander in the 23rd Assault Regiment, said that despite a deepening manpower shortage, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry pays little attention to recruiting foreign volunteers. According to him, about half of those who arrived in 2026 came on private donations rather than state money, he told Apostrophe TV. Foreign volunteers have fought for Ukraine since 2022, but who brings them in, trains

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Russia’s cheap drone is no longer just a decoy. An enlarged version of the “Gerbera", built to bait Ukraine’s air defenses, can now fly up to 1,200 kilometers and carry a warhead of up to 25 kg, Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (HUR) said in a new teardown of the “Gerbera-2” published on its War&Sanctions portal, along with an interactive 3D model and a list of the drone’s parts. Russia loads ever more capability

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Kyiv says it cannot wait years for the 500 Patriot interceptors the US cleared for sale on 30 October. Deliveries may start only in a few years, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote just after midnight, asking partners to send missiles from their own stocks this winter. The timing is the problem. Since 14 October, Russia had launched more than 100 ballistic missiles at Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, Zelenskyy said on 27 Octobe

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Outside parties broke into Air Alert, Ukraine’s main air raid warning app, late on 1 November and pushed false threat warnings to users’ phones, the app’s developers confirmed. Ukraine’s Air Force said there was no radiation threat and that the app had likely come under enemy influence. The developers suspended the app overnight and then began restoring it. The fake leaned on a fear Russia keeps feeding. Russia has f

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); A satellite built for Rassvet, Russia’s answer to Starlink, burned up on 30 October, Ukrainian defense outlet Defense Express reported. It is the network’s second loss since launches began in March. A third stricken satellite may have been saved, though sources disagree. On 5 February, Ukraine and SpaceX blocked the Starlink terminals Russian troops had used without permission. Officially, Rassvet is a commercial int