A Ukrainian MiG-29 destroyed a Russian Geran-4 jet-powered drone head-on over Kyiv Oblast. The fighter flew directly through the fire and debris cloud created by the exploding drone after the interception.
Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed damage from earlier strikes on two Russian energy facilities. The October 2 strike on the Samara oil station damaged 14 storage tanks, pipelines and an automated loading station. At the Astrakhan gas processing plant, struck on October 4, two gas purification units, U-172 and U-272, and the U-1731 secondary distillation unit were damaged. Ukraine says both facilit...
Ukrainian forces struck Russia’s Seshcha airfield in Bryansk Oblast on October 6 and overnight into October 7, the General Staff says. An EW station near Hrinovo and a radar near Elionka were also hit. Across occupied Ukraine, Ukrainian forces struck a Russian strike-drone storage, preparation and launch site near Donetsk, UAV command posts in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, command positions in Donetsk Obla...
Military representatives from all 32 NATO member states have arrived in Kyiv with the NATO Military Committee, marking its first official visit to the Ukrainian capital in eight years. Chair Giuseppe Cavo Dragone said the delegation will hear the latest battlefield assessment directly from Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief and General Staff and discuss further support. He said NATO’s support for Ukrain...
Ukraine’s Sapsan missile program effectively ended after Russian strikes targeted its production infrastructure, according to aviation expert Valeriy Romanenko. He said Russia struck the missile manufacturing plant, the facility producing solid-fuel engines, a backup plant intended to produce the missiles in parallel, and two or three suppliers responsible for components. “The program closed by it...
Ukraine has established a steady drone presence over Russian-occupied Crimea for the first time in 12 years of occupation, according to Unmanned Systems Commander Magyar. He says the 414th Magyar’s Birds Brigade conducted more than 7,000 missions this summer alone as part of the Unmanned Systems Forces’ “Crimean Operation.” Its drones regularly fly dozens of kilometers over the peninsula en route ...
In northern Chernihiv, a Russian S-8000 Banderol/Dan-T mini cruise missile struck a warehouse complex. A fire started after the impact.
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A tree with just six known wild individuals left is being cloned to help prevent it from disappearing forever. The Mongarlowe mallee (Eucalyptus recurva), found in southeastern Australia, is one of the world’s rarest eucalypts.Its largest known individual has a woody underground structure called a lignotuber estimated to be 3,000–6,000 years old.The six surviving wild individuals are widely separa...
❗️The European Commission has disbursed €1.24 billion under the defense component of its €90 billion Ukraine Support Loan. The money covers drones, drone interceptors, drone ammunition and missiles manufactured by Ukrainian entities. The EU plans €28.3 billion in defense-related disbursements in 2026, with another €15.4 billion still available this year to support Ukraine’s defense industrial capa...
Russia's gift to Putin on his birthday. The toll from the Russian strike on a five-story residential building in Pryluky has risen to 9 dead and 50 injured. Rescuers recovered the bodies of three children from the rubble. 27 people were hospitalized, three in serious condition, while 12 were rescued.
The death toll in Pryluky has risen to nine after a Russian ballistic missile struck a residential building earlier today. The bodies of three children were recovered from beneath the rubble.
Ukrainian National Guard troops pulled off an unusual rescue from Russian-occupied Oleshky: evacuating six cats by heavy bomber drone. With help from local residents, the cats were placed inside a cage specially designed for the mission and carried through the air for more than 10 km across the Dnipro. The National Guard says all six landed safely and unharmed, although a little frightened. The op...
❗️EU ambassadors have approved new sanctions targeting 743 individuals and 826 organizations linked to Russia’s military-industrial complex, UNN reports. The measures also cover 77 State Duma members elected from occupied Ukrainian territories and renew restrictions over Russia’s use of chemical weapons.
Ukrainian troops from Shadow Group of the 125th Mechanized Brigade recount clearing Novoselivka during Operation Vivaldi. They reached the settlement center, hunted down remaining Russian troops, took prisoners and fought alongside Ukrainian Special Operations Forces during the operation.