Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1596: Trump promised Ukraine license for Patriot missile production
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Exclusives
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Ukraine has a new 3,400-km attack drone. More refineries will burn.. With bigger wings and more fuel, Ukrainian drones can range deeper inside Russia to hit once unreachable targets. |
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Reporters traced 143 properties to Ukraine’s anti-corruption chief’s brother. A court just banned the story.. The lawsuit that justifies the ban hasn’t been filed yet |
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Ukraine’s reserves fell for four months. Oil eased for one, and they grew back.. The buffer that drained all spring just grew again. A new spike in oil prices says not for long. |
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Kostiantynivka: Why one city in Donbas matters so much that Putin lies about having captured it. Putin declared the city “liberated” while Ukrainian troops still held it, a lie aimed at the negotiating table, not the battlefield |
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Russia is running out of its best eyes in the sky. Russia’s giant radar early warning planes can spot incoming Ukrainian missiles. What happens when there aren’t enough planes? |
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From Karelia to Kamchatka: Russia rations fuel where drones strike and stockpiles it where they cannot. A drone campaign against refineries has Russians buying gasoline by QR code, license-plate number, and five-hour queue. |
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Zaporizhzhia, Chornobyl, Kakhovka: a playbook of terror the West still calls deterrence. The West keeps reading the Kremlin’s nuclear threats through a Cold War lens, Svitlana Matviyenko argues. The mistake, she says, is doing Russia’s work for it. |
Military
“Your flip-flops will melt along with gas pedal”: Ukraine’s drone chief warns Russian truckers off Crimea corridor. Ukraine’s SBS commander told Russian truck drivers moving cargo through the land corridor to Crimea to f*ck off to Rostov.
Ukraine says it downed Russian Su-35. Replacing it won’t be easy. Ukraine’s Air Force says it shot down a Russian Su-35 multirole fighter on the eastern direction on 8 July.
Russia’s refinery in Saratov, two in Tatarstan, a pumping station in Bashkortostan — one night’s oil target list. Fires broke out at the Saratov plant and the Nizhnekamsk refining cluster, while Ukraine’s security service struck an oil-products pumping station 1,500 kilometers from the border.
Russia’s transport ministry quietly confirmed what happened to its border bridges in Belgorod. A month-long traffic ban on the Valuyki–Urazovo road followed within hours of videos showing both Urayeva River crossings wrecked.
Three days, 21 ships: Russia’s Azov Sea fuel run to occupied Crimea is turning into a shooting gallery. Ukraine’s drone forces say 19 sanctioned tankers, a cargo ship, and a ferry in occupied Kerch have all been hit since the maritime operation began on 6 July. Videos confirm strikes.
Intelligence and technology
Russia has found way to jam Starlink and take down Ukraine’s drones. Russia has deployed 10 electronic warfare systems to jam Ukrainian drone control via Starlink. Ukraine has destroyed two.
Ukraine captured Russian position with robots alone in 2026. Now, it’s codifying new combat robot almost weekly. Latest one called Tanchik. Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense codified the Tanchik Droid 12.7 ground robot for reconnaissance and light-armor destruction.
Standing beside Zelenskyy, Trump promised Ukraine Patriot license. But missile for system on Ukrainian soil is still months away. The PAC-3 missile producers, Lockheed Martin and RTX, weren’t informed.
Czech government that campaigned against arming Kyiv will now buy it American weapons for Ukraine. Czech FM said Prague will redirect budget money into the NATO program that buys US-made arms for Kyiv.
Humanitarian and social impact
Kyiv marked this basement official shelter. It didn’t save people inside — and authorities won’t say why no new ones are built. Rescuers completed operations at a Darnytskyi apartment building where 11 people were killed by a Russian strike.
Russia is hitting Ukrainian fuel stations 20 times a week. Ukrainian law tells them exactly where each one is. 186 strikes since April. The targeting intelligence isn’t coming from drones — it’s in a public registry
“Even 50% must be destroyed”: Russian MP openly calls for exterminating Ukrainians. Alexei Zhuravlyov told his interviewer that killing Ukrainians is justified “so that no one threatens us,” calling the nation a “contagion.”
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