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Price of concrete shelter for Kyiv power site surges to $10M

The cost to fortify a Ukrenergo site in Kyiv Oblast surged nearly fivefold from 88M to 420M hryvnias, MP Serhiy Nahornyak said in an interview with Radio NV on Nov. 6.

6 November, 12:29 PM

Only three of 84 Ukrenergo substations have underground relay protection

Only three of 84 Ukrenergo substations have underground control shelters while two-thirds of transformers lack concrete sarcophagi, MP Serhiy Nahornyak told Radio NV on Nov. 6.

6 November, 11:40 AM

Ukraine overhauls its approach to defensive lines under new defense ministry strategy through 2028

Ukraine's Cabinet approved a defense fortification strategy through 2028 that includes coordinated engineering work, digital tracking of fortifications and stronger drone protection for supply routes, the Defense Ministry said on Oct. 16.

16 October, 01:16 PM

Ukrnafta builds blast gabions around Kyiv gas stations after drone raids

National oil operator Ukrnafta has begun installing protective gabions around its Kyiv gas stations to contain blast debris, the company's Board Chair Bohdan Kukura reported on Sept. 14.

14 September, 12:25 PM

Ukraine fortifies Chornobyl zone against possible new Russian incursion — Spiegel

Ukrainian forces are strengthening defenses in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone as they prepare for the possibility of another Russian invasion attempt from the north, German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Aug. 10.

10 August, 04:47 PM

Russia has not abandoned plan to create buffer zone in northern Ukraine, Syrskyi says

Russian forces have not given up their intention to seize Ukrainian territory and create a so-called buffer zone in the north of the country, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, said in a post on Facebook on July 17.

17 July, 06:11 PM

Ukraine fortifies Odesa with anti-tank ditches and barriers to deter assault

Ukraine is nearing completion of miles of anti-tank ditches, bunkers, “dragon’s teeth” and barbed wire around Odesa to prepare the city for defense from all directions, the South Regional Directorate of the Territorial Defense Forces reported.

26 May, 03:36 PM

Ukraine builds fortifications in 45 cities as long-war defenses deepen

Ukraine is building fortifications in at least 45 cities as it prepares for a long-term defense, OSINT monitoring group Oko Hora wrote on May 4, citing a post by French OSINT analyst Clement Molin.

4 May, 02:36 PM

Ukraine builds northern defense line to block Russian push toward Sumy

Ukraine is building a continuous defense line from Sumy to the Kyiv Reservoir to block Russian operations and prevent Moscow from creating a so-called “buffer zone,” Brig. Gen. Vasyl Syrotenko, head of the engineering troops of the Support Forces Command of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, said in a video comment to Ukrinform.

28 April, 02:32 PM

Law enforcement uncovers $315k embezzlement scheme in fortification construction

Police have uncovered the embezzlement of over $315,000 (14 million UAH) in tenders related to the construction of fortifications in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko reported on March 13.

13 March, 12:43 PM

Audit reveals $240m for fortifications left unused in 2024

Systemic flaws — including fragmented planning and weak internal control — plague critical infrastructure protection and fortification construction, Accounting Chamber Chair Olha Pishchanska said on Feb. 16.

16 February, 03:17 PM

NABU probes Poltava officials over missing fortification funds

National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) is probing possible abuses in fortification construction ordered by Poltava Regional Military Administration, the agency's chief Semen Kryvonos told Radio Svoboda on Nov. 18.

19 November 2025, 09:49 AM

Russia builds bunkers and hangars at airfields after Cobweb Operation — satellite imagery

New satellite imagery indicates that Russia is constructing protective structures at several of its airbases following Ukraine’s Cobweb Operation on June 1, targeting Russian aviation assets, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) wrote on July 13.

14 July 2025, 09:50 AM

Preparation of fortifications in Sumy Oblast requires separate analysis, expert says

What tactics the Russians chose for advancing in Sumy Oblast and why they are succeeding was explained by military expert and former spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Vladislav Seleznev, during a Radio NV broadcast on June 19.

19 June 2025, 04:35 PM

DeepState reveals Dnipropetrovsk Oblast fortifications to counter Russian advance

Ukraine is building fortified defenses along the Dnipropetrovsk-Donetsk oblast border, incorporating lessons from Kharkiv’s fortification failures to counter Russian advances and FPV-drone threats, the DeepState monitoring group reported on June 15.

15 June 2025, 08:00 PM

Storm batters Russian protective structures around Crimean Bridge

A storm has destroyed protective structures near the illegally built Crimean Bridge, Dmytro Pletenchuk, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Naval Forces, said on national television on Jan. 6.

6 January 2025, 06:03 PM

Kharkiv Oblast defense projects awarded to firms with Russian tie

Since the start of the full-scale war, the Kharkiv-based company Project Alliance has received 1.2 billion hryvnias ($33.5 million) from the state budget despite its ties to Russia, a Hromadske investigation revealed on Aug. 21.

21 August 2024, 06:38 PM

Russians fortify beaches of occupied Yevpatoria, posing threat to civilians - photos

Numerous firing points set up by Russians along the sandy beaches of Yevpatoria in temporarily occupied Crimea were discovered by the peninsula’s resistance movement Atesh and reported on Telegram on July 17, accompanied by numerous photos.

17 July 2024, 06:34 PM

Demonstration fortification in Kharkiv Oblast used for officials to take photos — MP

Fortifications in Kharkiv were not built everywhere they were supposed to be, said Mykhailo Bondar, a member of European Solidarity and the Temporary Investigation Commission on Construction of Fortifications and Purchase of Drones, on Radio NV on May 22.

25 May 2024, 07:00 PM

Ukrainian Parliament moves to probe state spending on fortifications and drones

The Ukrainian Parliament established a temporary investigative commission to examine state budget expenditures on fortifications and drone production, according to draft resolution No. 11282 published on May 21.

22 May 2024, 01:07 PM

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