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Ukrainian drones penetrated three layers of air defenses deployed to protect Moscow and attacked a major Russian oil facility, Kyiv said on Thursday, marking its latest deep-strike operation.The massive Ukrainian attack targeted the Moscow Oil Refinery, one of Russia’s largest, for the second time in just a few days, and…
Ukraine’s soldiers are wearing what they call “tactical Crocs” when they’re off the front lines.Dmytro Zhluktenko, a Ukrainian soldier who recently transitioned from his role as a drone operator to a drone lessons analyst with Ukraine’s 413th Unmanned Systems Regiment “RAID,” described the gear he wore and carried in a…
KYIV, Ukraine — At first, it was only a faint whine somewhere in the distance. Then the sound sharpened, swelled, and suddenly the drone was overhead, a high-pitched scream piercing the air as it flew past.The aircraft was Sting, a Ukrainian interceptor drone purpose-built to hunt Russian Shahed-type attack drones.…
IRPIN, Ukraine — The soldiers arrived in darkness. Pulling up to a field in a van, they began quietly setting up their ground control station on the side of the road. Headlamps cut through the night as they prepared to launch.Before sending up the interceptor drone, they flew a small…
Ukrainian forces lost a naval drone during an operation in the Black Sea on Friday after its guidance was disrupted by Russian electronic warfare, sending the vessel off course and into a large Romanian port, where it exploded.It’s the latest instance of Ukrainian drones accidentally ending up in NATO territory,…
A prominent Ukrainian war tracker said on Monday that Russia suffered a net monthly territorial loss for the first time since 2023, when Kyiv launched its major counterpush.DeepState UA, an open-source intelligence tracker widely used by Ukrainians and analysts to monitor the front lines, said Moscow had gained 14 square…
RIGA, Latvia — Warfighting drones have become so cheap that Russia has shifted from not wanting to waste one on a lone Ukrainian soldier to sending over a dozen after just one person, a Ukrainian defense official said this week.At the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, its forces “never attacked…
A Ukrainian vehicle crew said it used an Italian B1 Centauro to strike a house nearly seven miles away, one of the longest indirect tank gun shots reported in the war.”The furthest shot I had was from a closed position. It was 11 kilometers. At 11,100 meters, I hit a…
Ukrainian weapons makers say they have a selling point many defense firms farther from the battlefield can’t match: Their weapons are being tested, adapted, and used in modern combat every day. Loading audio narration… Serhiy Goncharov, the CEO of the National Association of Ukrainian Defense Industries, or NAUDI, which represents…
A Ukrainian company making ground robots said it was surprised to see Russian soldiers surrender to its machines. Loading audio narration… Ukraine’s military has shared multiple videos showing Russian soldiers surrendering to unmanned ground vehicles, or UGVs, which are increasingly taking over human combat roles and being used to keep…
