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(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) detained two Kyiv entrepreneurs it suspects of supplying the National Guard with defective combat shirts worth more than 8.6 million hryvnias (about $190,000) and of trying to bribe an officer to accept them, the agency reported on 5 November. According to the SBU, the officer reported the offer to his superiors, and its officers caught the pair as they allegedly handed over the bribe. T

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Spain will give Ukraine a new €437 million (about $490 million) military aid package, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at their meeting in Madrid on 5 November, the Ukrainian president’s office reported. Neither government has said what the package contains. Whether it will help Ukraine’s thinning air defense is still an open question. Russia is striking Ukraine’s citi

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Russian strikes on Izium, Kharkiv Oblast, grew much heavier over the summer and fall of 2026, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported in its 5 November assessment. Since late June 2026, Russia has struck the city every day, the heaviest strikes since its liberation four years ago, Serhii Fedchenko, head of the Izium City Military Administration, said in an interview with Suspilne published on 10 September.

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Three handwritten, signed reports attributed to a young Viktor Orbán described fellow conscripts’ conduct and their political, sexual, and religious orientation during his military service in Zalaegerszeg, according to former Prime Minister Miklós Németh. He made the claim in a statement that investigative journalist Szabolcs Panyi first described in a podcast and published on 5 November. For 16 years, until May, Orb

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Two sanctioned tankers carrying Russian diesel toward the US under President Donald Trump’s deal with Vladimir Putin have changed course away from American ports, the Associated Press reported. At least three more have since followed, and no Russian diesel has reached the United States since the deal was struck in October. A tanker expected in New York this weekend has yet to confirm where it will unload, while Moscow i

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called wartime elections unfair to soldiers who cannot vote and floated online voting as a possible way out, he told German broadcaster ZDF. He also said he had asked Washington to secure a winter ceasefire from Moscow, which would protect power and water and open a window for a vote. At home, critics warn that remote voting carries heavy risks, and Ukrainian law makes no room

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Ukraine’s Phantom Defense is preparing its Mangal system for serial production, Militarnyi reported on 5 November. Mangal fires nets at Russian FPV drones as they close in on a vehicle. Amid Russia's invasion, FPV drones, explosive craft flown by camera, hunt Ukrainian vehicles within 15 to 30 kilometers of the front. This year, Ukraine has covered more than 1,640 kilometers of frontline roads with anti-drone protect

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); One recent all-robot Ukrainian ground assault involved no fewer than 28 armed unmanned ground vehicles It seems the assault failed, but that's not what matters What matters is that more all-robot assaults are coming All-robot amphibious landings, air assaults, engineering operations, and resupply are increasingly commonplace in Russia's wider war on Ukraine, now in its 57th month. They're especially common

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); The road to Kramatorsk from the south is clogged with wrecked vehicles It's the job of the engineers from the Ukrainian 100th Mechanized Brigade to clear those wrecks For that, the engineers ride in a special armored bulldozer The Ukrainian army's 100th Mechanized Brigade holds positions in or around Oleksiievo-Druzhkivka, which straddles the H20 highway threading between the ruins of Kostiantynivka northwe

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); US President Donald Trump predicted a “big agreement” on Russia’s war against Ukraine that “might involve all of Europe” on 5 November, after meeting Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev at the White House, Bloomberg reported. Earlier that day, Dmitriev and a Ukrainian delegation marked the truce in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky there, at an event hosted by First Lady Melania Trump. Russia’s war on Ukraine

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Ukrainian units did not neutralize 722 Russian strike drones in a week, General Staff figures show. The military did not say what those drones hit. The Lancet is a loitering munition that circles before diving at a target. The Molniya is a cheap fixed-wing drone Russia builds in bulk. Russia now leans on drones it can afford to lose. In April, Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, then an adviser to Ukraine’s defense minister,

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); One Ukrainian F-16 pilot shot down nine Russian drones in a single sortie, using only the plane’s cannon. Days earlier, the same pilot had downed eight in one flight, a record he then broke, the 107th Separate Aviation Wing said, relaying its commander’s remarks at the International Fighter Conference in Munich. The feat is a vivid snapshot of how Ukraine is beating Russia’s drone swarms on the cheap. Rather than spe

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); South Korean defense startup Newtype Industries says it never stopped working with Ukraine, its founder and CEO Sung-won (Joe) Cho told Ukrainian defense outlet Militarnyi on 6 November. He rejected a report by The Diplomat, a magazine covering the Asia-Pacific region, that a diplomatic row between Seoul and Kyiv had ended Ukrainian trials of the company’s AI artillery software. Cho said neither he nor anyone else at Ne

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Rostec claimed on Telegram this week that its Kalashnikov-made Kalitka anti-drone turret takes target data from external radars and scouts, letting it spot an approaching drone sooner. The feature isn’t new, though. Drones have become the deadliest weapon in Russia’s war on Ukraine. Ukraine’s drone force says it has killed or wounded more than 100,000 Russian troops this year, and in late June alone it said it hit Ru

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); The charity fund of top Ukrainian volunteer Serhii Sternenko, which has bought 299,365 FPV drones for the Ukrainian army, has signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, bodies created as a mandatory condition of Ukraine’s European integration and the fight against top-level corruption, the two agencies said. Under the Memorandum

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Ukrainian troops have cleared most of Mala Tokmachka, a front-line village in Zaporizhzhia Oblast that Moscow declared captured almost a year ago, Ukrainian military observer Kostiantyn Mashovets reported on 5 November. Russian forces keep trying to encircle the nearby town of Orikhiv from both flanks but have made no significant progress, he wrote. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) relayed his account and assess

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Ukrainian ground robots running Ukrainian maker DevDroid’s Droid Box control system drive back to their starting point if they lose their Starlink connection and cannot get it back, the company’s marketing head Anna Mokh told Ukrainian defense-news outlet Oboronka. She spoke at Iron Halloween Party 2026, a defense-tech exhibition, in comments Oboronka published on 5 November. Ukraine’s ground robots ran more than 25,

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Ukrainian drones set the Afipsky oil refinery in Russia's Krasnodar Krai on fire again overnight on 6 November, Ukrainian Telegram channel Exilenova+ reported. Smoke from the plant drifted toward Krasnodar, while local authorities blamed falling drone debris for a fire at an unnamed enterprise. Explosions and power outages were also reported in neighboring Adygea and in occupied Crimea. Ukraine has resumed its long-r

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) has charged five people in a new episode of its Carthage case, the bureau said. Investigators say the group ran or shielded scam call centers, drug sales, and a fake-euro workshop. Judges have ruled on two suspects, while the most senior one, a security service general, still waits. As Ukraine fights off Russia’s full-scale invasion, Brussels has tied its EU membership

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); If Russia ever resumes large-scale armored assaults, Ukraine can counter with a new tactic The Ukrainians can aim heavy fixed-wing drones at individual Russian vehicles An up-armored vehicle might shrug off dozens of tiny first-person-view drones, but fixed-wing drones are too powerful to resist Relentlessly droning Russian troops and vehicles just west of Huliaipole in southern Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Oblas