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Ukrainian forces have been substantially slowing Russia’s advance and are seeing fresh battlefield gains not achieved in years, warfare experts said. Loading audio narration… “The Ukrainians are gaining more ground,” George Barros, a conflict analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington DC-based think tank, told Business…
Russia is using fiber-optic cables to control some of its larger, fixed-wing strike drones, making them effectively immune to the electronic warfare interference that dominates the battlefield, a top Ukrainian drone expert confirmed. Loading audio narration… Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, an advisor to Ukraine’s defense ministry, told Business Insider this week…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Russia had earned $10 billion in two weeks of the US-Israeli war with Iran.That’s about 10% of what Moscow has lost in the oil trade so far this year, he said in a post on X.Zelenskyy wrote that Ukrainian intelligence reports indicated…
Anton, a 44-year-old Russian soldier who heads a workshop responsible for repairing and supplying drones, was at his kitchen table when he learned last month that Elon Musk’s SpaceX had cut off access to Starlink terminals used by Russian forces. He scrambled for alternatives, but none offered unlimited internet, data…
Russia has been expanding a drone base near the front lines in eastern Ukraine, adding more launch positions and storage facilities, according to new satellite imagery reviewed by Business Insider. The base is only months old, and it’s growing. Loading audio narration… The imagery, which was captured on Wednesday by…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that his country had struck a Russian military industrial plant with locally made cruise missiles that flew nearly 900 miles to reach their target.Ukrainian officials earlier reported that the missile strike on Saturday had hit a plant in Votkinsk, an industrial town in…
Ukrainian drones struck a Russian oil depot overnight, breaking through the netting that had been installed earlier to protect the site from such attacks, a security official told Business Insider on Thursday.Long-range Ukrainian drones struck an oil depot in Velikiye Luki, a city in western Russia’s Pskov region, a source…
