Amy B. Zegart
Editor’s Note: In accordance with the security protocols of the Ukrainian military, soldiers featured in this story are identified by first names and callsigns only.
KOSTIANTYNIVKA, Donetsk Oblast — As recently as four months ago, the drab streets of …
“Viktoria was one of those who spoke the truth about the war. She worked on the front lines and in temporarily occupied territories, risking her life,” President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“I just want to make sure that his (Dmitry Medvedev’s) words are only words and nothing more than that,” U.S. President Donald Trump said.
The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell and Olena Zashko spent a day with two drone teams of the 20th Brigade of Ukraine’s National Guard, known as Liubart, that are holding a sector south of Kostiantynivka.
The recent Russian attack damaged two houses, a market, a shop, and administrative building and several cars, Donetsk Oblast Governor Vadym Filashkin said.
Ukrainian forces downed 45 out of the 53 drones, including Shahed-type attack drones, rocket-powered drones and decoys, launched by Russia overnight, the Air Force reported.
The online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda reported that hundreds of protesters joined the rally, while police put the number at 80. The police then arrested some of the demonstrators.
The number includes 1,010 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day.
A series of explosions were reported overnight on August 2 in Russian-occupied Crimea, with local residents citing drone activity and air defense operations, according to multiple Telegram channels and eyewitness accounts.
A series of drone attacks targeted industrial facilities in Russia’s Ryazan, Penza, and Samara oblasts overnight on Aug. 2, according to local media and regional officials.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Aug. 1 that Moscow has begun production of its latest hypersonic missile, named “Oreshnik,” and confirmed plans to deploy the weapon to Belarus later this year.
The reported mechanism will allow Kyiv to prioritize weaponry needs under its Priority Ukraine Requirements List, Reuters reported, with arms being delivered in tranches of roughly $500 million. Spearheaded by alliance Secretary General Mark Rutte, …
The waves reportedly hit the Rybachiy naval base, which houses the bulk of the nuclear submarines in Russia’s Pacific Fleet, according to images taken by the Umbra Space satellite the morning after the tsunami.
The victims include a 5-month-old baby, along with a 9-year-old and 10-year-old boy, Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported. Five of the 10 victims have been hospitalized.
KYIV OBLAST — The first night the Lypko family fled their house during a Russian attack was the night it got hit.
For over three years of full-scale war, Vasyl and Natalia Lypko refused to leave their home in Kyiv Oblast, even as Russian drones and …
Ukraine’s drone manufacturers are scrambling to reach the Russian equipment that lurks beyond the radio horizon — the distance where the earth’s curvature blocks the video signal that Ukraine’s cheap strike drones depend on.
Over the past year and a …
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed on August 1 the creation of three working groups for new online peace talks with Ukraine — but insisted the format would remain behind closed doors.
