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Euromaidan Press Olena Mukhina

US Senate took first step toward Graham sanctions bill on Russia. It gives Trump power to impose 500% tariffs on Russian oil

The US Senate voted 86-12 to advance the Russia sanctions bill renamed for the late Senator Lindsey…

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Euromaidan Press Olena Mukhina

Ukraine’s interceptors shot down Russian spy drone at 6,400 meters. It’s thousand meters above Everest’s base camp

Ukrainian National Guard pilots intercepted a Russian ZALA Z-20 reconnaissance drone at one of the…

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Euromaidan Press Olena Mukhina

Ukraine hits 201 Russian shadow fleet ships in three weeks. Commander says Crimea’s supply route is now blocked indefinitely

The campaign has run alongside strikes on Crimea's power grid and air defenses, part of a broader…

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Euromaidan Press Hans Petter Midttun

Russia and Ukraine justify their strikes the same way. Only one justification holds up

Ukraine is now hitting Russia's power grid, ports, shipping and warehouses — the same categories…

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Euromaidan Press Olena Mukhina

Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1616: Zelenskyy pushes Patriot production in Washington

Elsewhere, Ukraine and NATO opened a new joint grant program pairing Ukrainian firms with allied…

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Euromaidan Press Olena Mukhina

Russia increases ballistic missile strikes: Zelenskyy meets second Patriot interceptor maker within week in Washington to push back

On a Washington visit for Lindsey Graham's funeral, Zelenskyy met Lockheed Martin on joint weapons…

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Euromaidan Press David Axe

Ukraine takes a Cold War-era American APC—and turns it into mine-blasting robot

Allies have shipped Ukraine more than 1,700 M113s. Khartia's engineers just showed what one looks…

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Euromaidan Press Olena Mukhina

New ground launcher means Russia no longer needs rare drone to fire its Banderol missile

Photos show a Russian ground launcher for the S8000 Banderol cruise missile, previously fired only…

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Euromaidan Press Olena Mukhina

West of Ukraine is still out of reach of Russia’s guided drones for reason. What is one thing that would close this gap?

Russia cannot yet steer guided Shaheds against Lviv and Volyn because its control network is out of…

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Euromaidan Press Olena Mukhina

Ukraine and NATO are funding joint teams to turn battlefield prototypes into weapons — each pairing Ukrainian firm with allied one

Brave1 and NATO began accepting applications for UNITE - Brave NATO, a joint grant program to scale…

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Euromaidan Press Olena Mukhina

Plant can’t mine because it can’t ship: Russia’s attacks on merchant vessels idle 4,480 workers at Ukrainian iron ore giant

Pivdennyi GZK, one of Ukraine's largest iron ore producers, is suspending mining because Russian…

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Euromaidan Press Olena Mukhina

After Ukraine’s Caspian strike, Iran warns of retaliation. Ukraine faces that threat without defenses its allies gave Israel

Monitoring channels raised the prospect of a ballistic strike, but Ukrainian officials say no such…

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Euromaidan Press Yuri Zoria

A couple beaten for being Ukrainian—the latest case in Poland’s rising anti-Ukrainian violence

The video, filmed by a Ukrainian living nearby, spread online, and police detained two suspects the…

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Euromaidan Press Peeter Helme

How tight is Russia’s fuel crisis? Altai now caps each car at one fill a day

Drivers had gamed the midnight reset to take two rations. This week, the Siberian republic shut the…

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Euromaidan Press Yuri Zoria

Behind a blue check, someone spoke for Ukraine’s commander—then X shut the whole operation out

For days, statements attributed to Ukraine's newly appointed commander circulated from a profile he…

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Euromaidan Press Peeter Helme

Russia’s strikes stall Ukraine’s grain corridor as farm prices fall

World wheat price is climbing on the supply scare—yet the grain stuck in Ukraine's ports fetches…

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Euromaidan Press Yuri Zoria

A Siberian fuel plant 2,000 km from the war zone goes offline—drones struck it days ago

The refinery near Tyumen normally turns out roughly half a million tons of gasoline and millions of…

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Euromaidan Press Yuri Zoria

Ukraine went for Russia’s “AliExpress” again—its next-door warehouse was ablaze

The Koledino 3PL depot, which serves Fix Price, Perekrestok and Detsky Mir, burned while…

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Euromaidan Press Olena Mukhina

Kyiv police detain journalist investigating corruption over draft violation, which his newsroom says doesn’t exist

He was targeted the same way in 2024.

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Euromaidan Press Olena Mukhina

Lithuania proposes to implement special test for Russian and Belarusian artists and academics who enter state. Those who don’t pass will be banned

Lithuania's Foreign Ministry proposed barring Russian and Belarusian cultural, scientific, and…

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Euromaidan Press Olena Mukhina

Romania hits cost trap Ukraine spent years escaping: $400,000 missiles against $20,000 drones

Romania spent about €1.5 million downing three Russian drones over three days, mostly on F-16…

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Euromaidan Press Olena Mukhina

Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1615: Russia’s ship strikes choke Ukraine’s grain corridor

Not a single ship crossed Ukraine's grain corridor on 22 July, at the peak of harvest, and the…

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Euromaidan Press Olena Mukhina

Look at this huge airport fire truck that Ukraine’s Emergency Service just received from Luxembourg

Ukraine's State Emergency Service received a Rosenbauer Panther 8×8 airport firefighting vehicle,…

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Euromaidan Press Olena Mukhina

Ukraine’s new remote turret trades heavy machine gun for twin AK-74s and relies on Starlink when signal drops

Ukraine's Roboneers codified the "ShaBlya K-2," a remote-controlled turret pairing two AK-74 rifles…

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Euromaidan Press Yuri Zoria

Euractiv: Italy and Greece win a fur pass for Russia inside the EU’s newest sanctions round

The two nations buy more Russian sable than anyone else in the bloc, and they lobbied to keep the…

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Euromaidan Press Peeter Helme

Russia’s ship strikes stall Ukraine’s grain corridor. The damage is moving inland

Not one ship passed through the corridor on 22 July, at the height of harvest. The choke is now…

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Euromaidan Press Olena Mukhina

Saving Western aid: Ukraine’s new armored recovery tractor can haul 30-ton MRAP off battlefield

Ukraine codified the INGUAR-4, a 6×6 armored recovery vehicle that hauls damaged MRAPs up to 30…

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Euromaidan Press Yuri Zoria

Oil sites 1,300 km east, a port terminal near the front—Russia’s deep rear had one loud night

The strikes ran from about 250 kilometers behind the front line to targets some 1,300 kilometers…

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Euromaidan Press Yuri Zoria

Moscow struggles to stockpile all the missiles it needs—so it fires them straight off the line, Ukraine says

Ukraine's Air Force reads the factory stamps on downed rockets as a sign the Kremlin has lost its…

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Euromaidan Press Peeter Helme

Ukraine’s strikes left Crimea’s prepaid fuel coupons worthless—and the biggest chain won’t refund them

It is invoking a 14-day return law a Russian lawyer says doesn’t apply—he calls it unjust…

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Euromaidan Press Yuri Zoria

Russia spent a fortune on this air-defense system—watch a drone undo it in seconds

New footage shows the moment a Ukrainian strike drone reaches a parked S-400 launcher and a radar…

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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1615: Ukraine’s top commanders drew up a new target list for long-range drones and vowed to keep striking, after more than 1,000 strikes into Russia this year

A Russian strike killed a 9-year-old girl and another person in a Chernihiv supermarket; guided…

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Euromaidan Press Yuri Zoria

Caught before the strike—the student mapping Poltava’s grid for Russian missiles

Ukrainian counterintelligence says it exposed her in advance, seizing the devices she used to work…

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Euromaidan Press Yuri Zoria

Ukraine draws up a new target list for its long-range drones—and vows to keep firing

The updated priorities came out of a meeting of Kyiv's top commanders, who cleared the way for a…

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Euromaidan Press Yuri Zoria

Russia can’t fill its own ranks—so it asks North Korea for 30,000 more soldiers and new missile launchers, Ukraine says

Ukrainian intelligence points to reception sites readied in Voronezh Oblast since June, President…

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Euromaidan Press Yuri Zoria

Russia kills a 9-year-old girl in a Chernihiv supermarket, bombs Zaporizhzhia

Two people died at the supermarket and a 46-year-old man was killed by guided bombs hundreds of…

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Euromaidan Press Olena Mukhina

Works Ukraine evacuated for safekeeping are caught not by Russian shelling but by Polish ownership claim in court

Heirs of Polish prince Andrzej Lubomirski are suing to keep two paintings from going home.

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Euromaidan Press Yuri Zoria

Poland promised a 700-kilometer shield against Russia—two years on, satellites show four short fortified zones

Warsaw has spent since October 2024 on the project, yet only about 10 kilometers of actual linear…

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Euromaidan Press Yuri Zoria

Russia destroys a Home Depot-style megastore in Kryvyi Rih—the third one it has erased in the same region since 2024

Shahed drones set the Epicenter hypermarket ablaze on 26 July, and firefighters battled a blaze…

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Euromaidan Press Yuri Zoria

Romania knocks a third Russian drone from its sky in 72 hours

The Sunday intercept happened over the sea near the Danube delta, as Bucharest prepared to lodge a…

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