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Russia is losing the Black Sea grain war it started. Its answer is to sink civilian ships off Romania and Bulgaria
The burning ships off Romania and Bulgaria are the latest round of a contest Ukraine opened this summer, when it began choking Russia’s own Black Sea exports
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21 October 2026
- Ukraine’s top war charity names only way to save $25,000 to $4 million each time cheap Russian jet-powered drone is shot down
- History of UkraineProgress on a sore point for Ukraine and Poland: remains of over 40 Ukrainians killed by Polish WWII units found in Łasków
- Norway bars deals with 33 more Russian financial institutions—and 22 more from India to Nigeria
- Ukraine’s interceptor crews destroyed thousands of Russian aerial targets during Vivaldi. Jet-powered Shaheds remain a challenge
- Starlink slowdown makes Ukraine’s Shahed-hunting drone maker rethink air-launched interceptors
- Who capped Ukraine’s Starshield? “Ultimately POTUS,” Musk said. Ultimately Musk, reports now say
- Nuclear safety risk grows: Russian-occupied nuclear plant’s cooling pond keeps sinking, Russia runs short of diesel and staff, Ukraine says
- Two nights, two occupied capitals, two telecom operators running on seized Ukrainian assets: drones go after Russia’s communications in Donbas
- Not just the grid: Russia struck a 24-story block, a university, and warehouses overnight, and four people are dead
- European Parliament vice president launches hunger strike demanding a truce and evacuation for Russian-occupied Oleshky
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1700: Trump says Russia has been “fine” toward Ukraine on the day a Russian drone killed six people in a Kharkiv Oblast park
- Russia resumes diesel exports to Türkiye, Brazil, after Trump lifts sanctions on fuel supplies, boosting Moscow’s war revenue – Reuters
- South Korea will pull staff from Kyiv over North Korean POW handover made public at the UN
- US restores ballistic missile warnings to Ukraine after a week without advance notice before Russian attacks, Zelenskyy says
- Is a Russian drone near you right now? Ukrainians have developed maps that track drones in near real time
- Russians try to sneak toward Zaporizhzhia through the dried-up Kakhovka Reservoir. Ukrainian intelligence captures three
- Russia has been “fine” toward Ukraine, Trump says, on the same day a Russian drone killed a one-year-old in a public park
- Rubio thinks Starlink is fixed. Kyiv says it still cuts out above 161 km/h
- A diesel tank burns at Transneft’s Druzhba hub as Ukraine keeps striking Russian energy despite Trump’s pressure
- More ballistic missile interceptors and F-16 repairs inside Ukraine: Kyiv’s two asks to Lockheed Martin
- Russian drone kills six in Kharkiv Oblast park, including mother and her 14-month-old in a stroller. Hours later, Ukraine shows photos to US senators
- 31 in May, 63 now: Ukraine’s arms makers pile into a regime of tax breaks and shielded data
- Russia’s Rubicon hunts Ukrainian drone pilots. In Vivaldi, it became the target, and its morale fell sharply, says the Ukrainian general
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1700: Trump says Russia has been “fine” toward Ukraine on the day a Russian drone killed six people in a Kharkiv Oblast park
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Russo-Ukrainian war, days 1699: Ukraine has liberated more territory than Russia has captured since the start of fall
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Russo-Ukrainian war, days 1697–1698: Russia hits Ukraine’s energy 76 times during a US-declared truce, as Trump waives tariffs on Russia’s oil buyers and Romania downs two Russian jet drones
Russia just accidentally crashed its first Tu-95 bomber in 11 years. Its missiles will keep striking Ukraine anyway
It is out of production and Russia's bomber fleet keeps shrinking, but a raid on 8 September needed just six bombers, and Russia still has around a hundred.
When Kremlin energy talking points come with an Oxford address
Russian energy disinformation does not always look like propaganda. Sometimes it presents itself in the form of expert analysis, a policy advisor, or technical commentary inside Europe's energy debate, and that is exactly what makes this new form of influence worth examining.
In Ukraine’s Vivaldi offensive, nobody rides in the BTR-60s. Bulgaria’s old troop carriers go into Russian bunkers packed with mines
Too thinly armored for infantry, 110 Bulgarian-donated BTR-60s now go into Russian bunkers near Lyman packed with anti-tank mines and nobody inside.
Europe and Ukraine already have the force to stop Russia. What’s missing is the alliance.
The war may reach Europe by 2027; NATO won't be ready until 2035. The fastest deterrent already exists: a declared alliance with Ukraine's combat-proven force.
Ukraine’s tanks are fighting from kilometers back. A 1960s Soviet model does that nearly as well
Ukraine captured more than 40 T-62Ms from Russia, mostly during the 2022 counteroffensives, and has not registered a confirmed combat loss since.
Russia’s last “Ukraine peace deal” led to Europe’s biggest war since WWII. Here’s why this one could be worse.
Moscow isn’t just negotiating—it’s setting the stage. Behind closed doors, familiar tactics are at play, and the consequences could reshape Europe’s future once again.
Two plants make 70% of Ukraine’s steel. Russia hit both. Then ports closed, rail costs rose 30%, and the EU’s carbon tax kicked in
The head of Ukraine's largest steel plant says the government needs a single rescue document with deadlines and assigned agencies, because each problem stalls when handled alone.
Vivaldi’s secret weapon was the targeting, not the robots: Third Corps reconnaissance mapped Russian command nodes, then hit them to cause panic
The officer said disrupting command and communications was one of the tasks set directly by the corps commander, with brigade and corps intelligence identifying the areas to strike.
Ukraine’s chief prosecutor fled. Politicians still choose the man who can prosecute them.
He is only the latest prosecutor general to leave the office in disgrace, and the office is the reason.
Europe gave Russia years to perfect its aerial killing. Ukraine is paying the price. Europe may be next.
Russia has spent four years adapting its drones, missiles and tactics against Ukraine. As Russian attacks become harder to stop, Ukrainian civilians are paying the price – while Europe is increasingly worried about a threat it has had years to prepare for.
“A warning to companies that remain”: Russia takes control of Nestlé and Auchan’s assets – companies that stayed in Russia following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
The companies had been warned that remaining in Russia could expose their investments to seizure as the Kremlin increasingly uses foreign-owned businesses as leverage. B4Ukraine says companies should leave while they still can.
Why is Ukraine losing ground? Mobilization crisis and command failures exposed
Ukraine's military problems can no longer be ignored as mobilization failures and systemic issues lead to mounting territorial losses
Evergreens
Yes, Ukraine can win the war – ex-minister decodes victory plan
Zelenskyy's plan and Ukraine's victory are completely realistic, says Andriy Zagorodnyuk. But there is a crucial caveat -- the current paradigm must be changed.
Ukraine’s prosecutor general resigns as the watchdogs he was appointed to leash close in
He is the third powerful figure they've brought down. What looks like a government in crisis is a state where impunity at the top is ending.
A realistic victory strategy for Ukraine
In a war where offensive operations are equally difficult on both sides, not losing is already winning in the next year and a half
Analysis
NATO vows to defend every inch. Svalbard is where Russia plans to prove it won’t.
The CIA chief’s visit to Moscow gave rise to warnings that Russia may be preparing to strike the Baltics. However, Russia has an easier target for the goal of paralyzing NATO.
