On this 24 August 2025, Ukrainian Independence Day carries weight it never held during peacetime. Each year that the country survives Putin’s war of extermination, the holiday grows in significance – ...

Ukrainian forces launched a coordinated drone assault on Russian territory on 24 August, targeting critical infrastructure including the Ust-Luga port in Leningrad Oblast and the Syzran oil refinery ...

Ukraine is building enough long-range attack drones to nearly match Russia's own drone raids on Ukrainian cities.

Ukrainian forces encircle Russia’s 51st VDV Brigade near Sadky, trapping elite paratroopers weeks after Putin vowed to take ...

A 44-year-old pilot from Kropyvnytskyi who had been conducting daily combat flights against Russian forces was killed in a ...

Russian soldiers were operating an air defense unit in occupied Luhansk Oblast when an explosion killed three and injured two ...

Andrius Kubilius moved from spring concerns about lukewarm EU support for Ukraine's defence investments to declaring their ...

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected China as a potential peace guarantor after Beijing supplied 90% ...

Russia struck a US-owned factory in Ukraine during Trump peace talks, injuring 12 and warning Washington over American assets ...

France summoned Italy's ambassador after Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini told Emmanuel Macron to "put on a helmet, take a rifle and go to Ukraine yourself" rather than send Italian troops ...

Mariia Berlinska says offensive counter-strategy is urgently needed against 5,000-strong force. Over the past year, Russia’s elite Rubicon electronic warfare and drone-hunting unit has grown into one ...

European officials face a dilemma over China's conditional offer, with some viewing Beijing's UN mandate requirement as both opportunity and potential espionage risk.