Russian-Ukrainian war

Russia escalates gas station attacks in Ukraine, damaging or destroying 200

Russia began deliberately targeting Ukrainian gas stations in October 2025, and by July 2026 it was damaging about 20 a week, an NV infographic shows.

5 August, 11:31 AM

Zelenskyy urges partners to send interceptors after Russian attack kills 17

Seventeen people were killed and 44 wounded in Russia’s overnight ballistic missile attack on Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Aug. 5.

5 August, 11:24 AM

Ukraine appears to strike Russian supermarket warehouse for first time

The Ukrainian military appears to have struck a Russian food distribution center for the first time after previously targeting oil refineries and Wildberries and Ozon logistics hubs, The Moscow Times reported on Aug. 4.

4 August, 06:31 PM

Escalation threatens Ukraine peace opening as Trump remains focused on Iran

U.S. President Donald Trump risks missing an opening to broker an end to Russia’s war against Ukraine as he focuses on Iran, Thomas Graham wrote in The New York Times.

4 August, 05:42 PM

Umerov appointment will not break Russia-Ukraine talks deadlock, analyst warns

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is “wrecking the Russian economy” while refusing to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, and Rustem Umerov’s appointment as head of Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service will not change the situation, said Vadym Denysenko, a former Ukrainian lawmaker.

4 August, 04:52 PM

Up to 15,000 Russian companies close monthly as business conditions worsen

Between 12,000 and 15,000 companies have shut down in Russia each month for economic reasons since the start of 2026, roughly three times the monthly total in previous years, Kommersant reported.

4 August, 02:28 PM

Wildberries expands in Kazakhstan as drone attacks batter Russian warehouses

Russia’s largest online marketplace, Wildberries, is building two warehouse complexes in Kazakhstan covering a combined 260,000 square meters and plans to open them in the first quarter of 2027, The Moscow Times reported.

4 August, 12:42 PM

Ukrainian strikes drive Russian oil refining to lowest level since 2002

Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil facilities drove the country’s refinery throughput down to 3.6 million barrels a day in July, its lowest level since May 2002, Bloomberg reported on Aug. 3.

4 August, 10:19 AM

Russia strikes Kharkiv publisher, setting textbooks ablaze at warehouse

Russian forces attacked the Ranok publishing house in Kharkiv on Aug. 1, causing a warehouse fire that set textbooks ablaze, publishing house CEO Viktor Kruhlov said.

1 August, 05:32 PM

SBU drones strike three Russian refineries nearly 1,000 miles from Ukraine

Long-range drones operated by Ukraine’s SBU Security Service struck infrastructure at three oil refineries in Ufa, Russia, on Aug. 1, the agency reported.

1 August, 04:04 PM

Ukraine sinks sanctioned Rosatom container ship with sea drones, Zelenskyy confirms

The FESCO container ship Yanina sank in the Black Sea after an attack by Ukrainian sea drones, Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said in a statement released by the Russian state corporation’s press service.

1 August, 02:39 PM

Ukraine braces for new Russian strikes as Drapatyi first briefs Zelenskyy

Ukraine’s new commander-in-chief, Mykhailo Drapatyi, gave his first battlefield briefing at a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief’s Staff, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on social media on July 31.

31 July, 05:54 PM

Russian forces advance as pressure builds on Slovyansk and Kramatorsk

Russian forces have advanced near Kalenyky in Kramatorsk district, Donetsk Oblast, the DeepState monitoring project reported on July 31.

31 July, 04:13 PM

Zelenskyy vows response after assassination attempt on Khartiia commander

Khartiia commander Ihor Obolienskyi was targeted in an assassination attempt, and the attacker and his accomplice were detained, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on July 31.

31 July, 04:01 PM

Kremlin plans to oust longtime Russian-installed Crimea chief Aksyonov — ATESH

Officials in Moscow have made a final decision to remove Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed head of occupied Crimea who has held the post since 2014, and plan to blame him for a looming humanitarian catastrophe and failures to keep the peninsula supplied, the ATESH partisan movement reported on July 31.

31 July, 01:39 PM

Zelenskyy unveils asymmetric measures to counter Russian ballistic missile attacks

Ukraine has agreed on a set of decisions, technological steps and asymmetric measures intended to strengthen its defenses against Russian ballistic missiles, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on July 30.

30 July, 04:19 PM

Ukraine rejects Russia’s claim it captured Nova Sich village in Sumy Oblast

Ukraine’s Defense Forces rejected the Russian Defense Ministry’s claim that Russian troops had captured Nova Sich, a village in the Yunakivka community of Sumy Oblast.

30 July, 03:48 PM

Black Sea attacks disrupt sunflower oil flows, pushing India toward new suppliers

India, the world’s largest buyer of sunflower oil, is rushing to secure new suppliers and substitute vegetable oils as attacks in the Black Sea region disrupt imports and weak monsoon rains hurt its domestic crop, Bloomberg reported.

30 July, 03:18 PM

‘The package won’t arrive’: Magyar warns Russia after Wildberries warehouse strikes

Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Unmanned Systems Forces, confirmed strikes on additional Wildberries warehouses in Russia and suggested the attacks would continue.

30 July, 01:00 PM

Zircon missiles join vast barrage as Russia strikes Kyiv and western Ukraine

Russia used Zircon missiles to attack Vinnytsia Oblast during its massive overnight barrage, Yurii Ihnat, head of the Ukrainian Air Force Communications Directorate, confirmed on July 30.

30 July, 12:44 PM

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