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Special Operations Forces units struck two Lukoil drilling rigs on the night of April 10, located almost 1,000 kilometers from the front lines — the Grayfer and Korchagin platforms. This is not the first attack on the company's facilities: the same objects were targeted in December 2024 and January 2025.
# A GUR Officer with the Callsign "Toyota" Developed "Pushkoriz" Operation — Systematic Destruction of Russian Artillery in Belgorod Region, Which Stabilized Kharkiv in Fall 2024. He Later Applied the Same Logic in Zaporizhzhia.
The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities under the President of Ukraine gathered heads of communities from across the country. Representing Bilohorodska is village head Anton Ovsienko. At stake are not protocols, but concrete answers: whether people will have electricity, water, and heat if the enemy strikes infrastructure.
# Kharkiv Military Enlistment Office Automatically Registered Dozens of Women Without Medical Training and Declared Them Wanted. Defense Ministry Says It's Fixed. But the Method the System Used and the Legal Loophole of "No Procedure to De-Register Due to Military Office Error" Remain Unanswered.
Zelensky confirmed the participation of Ukrainian specialists in the destruction of Iranian drones in several countries in the region. Behind the scenes — technology, experience and questions about reciprocity.
# Trump's Meeting with NATO Secretary General Rutte Ends with Public Tirade Against Alliance on Truth Social — and Private Threats to "Punish" Allies Who Didn't Support Iran War A meeting between Trump and NATO Secretary General Rutte concluded with the former president publicly criticizing the alliance on Truth Social, while also making unpublicized threats to "punish" allies who failed to support a war against Iran. Rutte described the exchange as a "very frank conversation between two good friends."
Germany's Chancellor believes that escalation of conflicts in the Middle East is diverting allies' attention from supporting Ukraine and weakening Alliance unity.
The EU and Britain are discussing an agreement that would allow Ukraine to purchase British weapons through a European credit line. The key condition is a change of government in Hungary on April 12.
European officials acknowledge: Kyiv is right to doubt the reality of US support. The precedent of the Budapest Memorandum is already embedded in any negotiations.
The President clearly drew the line: Ukraine strikes Russian energy infrastructure exclusively with its own weapons and will stop as soon as Russia stops. So far, Russia has not stopped.
The Chernihiv Territorial Recruitment Center called Honcharenko's video an information-psychological operation. However, in the Bilotserkivsky and Uzhhorod Territorial Recruitment Centers, similar footage turned out to be true — following official monitoring by the ombudsman.
On April 8, the Admiral Grigorovich passed between two sanctioned tankers in British waters — and no one was detained. This is not merely a show of force, but a test of the legal boundary between sanctions and international maritime law.
On April 9, Ukraine received the bodies of a thousand fallen soldiers. Russia transfers them without documents and often in damaged condition — so the real work begins after the exchange, not during it.
In Brussels, they believe the Slovak prime minister will not dare to act like the Hungarian leader alone — especially if Orban loses the 2026 elections.
Israel killed a personal adviser to Hezbollah's leader and destroyed infrastructure in Lebanon — over 200 people died in a single day. The EU and France are demanding a ceasefire, but lack leverage to enforce it.
# Ukraine's President Proposes Alternative European Security Architecture Amid NATO Uncertainty Ukraine's President has proposed an alternative security architecture for Europe against the backdrop of genuine concerns about potential U.S. withdrawal from NATO. The question remains whether this represents a contingency plan or merely a negotiating position.
On September 30, 2024, Peter Szijjarto called his Iranian counterpart and proposed sharing Hungarian intelligence data about the attack on Hezbollah. This is the same Szijjarto who is supported by Netanyahu and Trump in the election.
For four consecutive months, Ukrainian drones have been eliminating more Russians than Putin's army can recruit. The mathematics of attrition is changing the logic of war.
Trump's Iran Deal Will Cost Allies More Than They Expected: The Strait of Hormuz, Gas Bills and Ukraine Support Budget Compete for the Same Funds.
Russia is deploying Shahed-238/Geran-3 drones at speeds up to 600 km/h and altitudes up to 9 km — beyond the range of interceptor drones. Fedorov acknowledged the problem and promised a solution, but did not name any specific measures.
# Translation In December, Budapest and Moscow agreed to "reverse negative trade dynamics" and expand nuclear, gas, and cultural cooperation. The document emerges on the eve of elections — and puts Hungary in a legally awkward position within the EU.
The Vyshhorod Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Center did not acknowledge violations in a case that the Defense Ministry called "unacceptable" and which resulted in disciplinary action against seven police officers. The disparity in assessments of the same video is telling.
Roman Kostenko, Secretary of the Supreme Rada's Defense Committee: conceding the Donbas is not a regional compromise, but a global signal that borders can be redrawn by force. The argument is backed by a figure that Moscow prefers to keep hidden.
First Deputy Commander of the 12th Special Purpose Brigade "Azov" Lev Pashko described the tactics of continuous fire pressure, which, according to him, develops a conditioned reflex in Russian soldiers and has already yielded concrete results: 24 prisoners captured in a single day with no losses on their side.
A two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran halted attacks and temporarily reopened the Strait of Hormuz—but neither side obtained what it declared as its war objective. The phenomenon of "mutual victory" reveals the logic of the conflict better than any official statement.
Deputy Commander of the 429th Regiment "Achilles" Oles Malyarevych arrived at the Capitol with a concrete arithmetic argument: six assault troops covered by 200 specialists is not an exception, but a new norm of warfare that breaks with US doctrine.
Ukraine has increased the use of strike unmanned aerial vehicles and now has an overall advantage over the enemy — but the Kursk operation demonstrated that local air superiority with fiber-optic drones was already deciding the outcome of battle.
# Chief of Staff of the 12th "Azov" Brigade Explains Why Unmanned Ground Vehicles Remain "Workhorses" Rather Than Soldier Replacements Lev Pashko, the Chief of Staff of the 12th "Azov" Brigade, explained at the Ground Truth Symposium in Washington why unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) remain "workhorses" rather than replacements for soldiers. Meanwhile, UGVs have set a record of 45 days of combat duty on the front lines without a single soldier nearby.
According to the President's Office, in the first quarter of 2026, average Russian losses across the entire line of contact in the Donbas increased nearly threefold compared to 2025 — but the advance did not stop.
# Romanian Coach Transformed Donetsk Club from Regional Champion to UEFA Cup Winner — and Remained Honorary Citizen of a City Now Occupied by Russia A Romanian coach turned a Donetsk club from a regional champion into a UEFA Cup winner — and remained an honorary citizen of the city that is now occupied by Russia.