Ukrainian forces carried out a Storm Shadow cruise missile strike tonight on Russia's Proton plant in Oryol, a producer of electronics for ballistic missiles.
Comes days after the UK supplied Ukraine with a new package of Storm Shadows to hunt down Russian missile capabilities.
Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter equipped with a launcher carrying six F7 Litavr anti-drone interceptors.
The helicopter serves as a flying launch platform for interceptor drones, deploying them to engage enemy UAVs.
🚨 The whole world needs to hear these words from Zelenskyy:
“Of course, we are not losing this war, but we are losing people and time. And it's heartbreaking, because our children don't have a normal life, they don't have a childhood,” says the Ukrainian president, whose country is now experiencing something that feels very much like betrayal.
🇺🇦 Zelenskyy delivers a blunt message to the United States:
“Just give us Starlink back. If you refuse, Ukraine will survive. We will continue defending ourselves with or without it.
But why would you restrict a country fighting for its survival? Why make it harder for us to defend our people?
I simply cannot understand the reasoning behind this decision. It is a mistake.”
Ukraine isn’t asking America to fight its war. It’s asking America not to stand in the way of its defense.
BREAKING: Ukraine has carried out the world’s first medical evacuation of a human via a drone from the battlefield the 30th mechanised brigade of Ukraine managed to save their injured comrade from a minefield.
Just absolutely insane.
Ukrainian attack drones hit a datacenter belonging to the Russian social media giant VK tonight, setting it on fire.
VK's network has begun experiencing disruptions.
✊ Ukraine's most valuable agent, it turns out, wore a Russian uniform and helped kill more than 300 Russian soldiers
The Wall Street Journal tells the story of Lev Stupnikov, a young lieutenant who served as the communications chief of a battalion in Russia's 36th Motor Rifle Brigade.
It was his mother, an opponent of Putin and the war, who encouraged him to cooperate with Ukraine. In February 2024, she contacted Ukrainian blogger Dmitry Karpenko, asking for help getting her son to desert.
For weeks, Stupnikov passed the coordinates of Russian troop concentrations to Ukrainian intelligence. But he didn't stop there. He also disabled surveillance cameras and interfered with Russian drones during operations.
In July 2024, he defected to the Ukrainian side, handing over a phone containing passwords that allowed Ukrainian forces to access live feeds from Russian drones and cameras for several more months.
His mother and younger sister later left Russia. His wife, however, stayed behind and publicly called him a traitor.
Now the former lieutenant, whose intelligence helped kill hundreds of Russian soldiers, serves in the Russian Volunteer Corps and fights against his former brigade.
Newly released overhead showing the aftermath of Ukraine’s overnight cruise missile strike on Russia’s Borisoglebsk Airbase.
At least one missile slammed into a group of Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers loaded for strike missions, causing catastrophic damage.
⚡️ BREAKING: A Ukrainian FPV interceptor drone struck a Russian Mi-28NM attack helicopter in midair.
The drone was operated by the Ukraine’s 115th Mechanized Brigade reports that its “Prybultsi” air defense unit
❗️Zelensky responded to the latest criticism from Trump and Musk:
“These people (Trump and Musk – ed.) cannot find the key to stop Putin. Because stopping Putin is harder than pressuring others. Because it’s easier to talk about prices and link it to Ukraine. When everyone in the world understands that prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East. They are rising. They are rising because of the war in the Middle East, because of the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, for these reasons. Everyone understands this,” the president said.
🇫🇮 Finland calls on the EU to completely stop issuing tourist visas to Russians
Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo plans to put forward the proposal at next week's European Council meeting.
According to Orpo, European countries issued 800,000 tourist visas to Russians last year, while Finland issued none.
Orpo justified his proposal by citing the threat of Russian sabotage operations across Europe.
“If we fear that Russia is trying to carry out acts of sabotage in Europe, why on earth are we so naive as to let them in as tourists and allow them to move around freely?” the Finnish prime minister asked.
Finland stopped issuing tourist visas to Russians back in 2022 and has kept its land border with Russia closed since December 2023.
Now Helsinki wants to extend these visa restrictions across the entire European Union.
Over the weekend, Ukrainian forces launched dozens of balloons to carry FPV attack drones deep behind the southern frontline.
After making it to the Russian rear area, the drones detached from the balloons and struck logistics traffic along the R-280 highway.
Incredible video shows a Russian drone attempting to destroy a Ukrainian ground robot but being disabled when the robot deploys an anti drone net and catches it.
We literally have robots fighting each other on Ukraine’s frontline.