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Ukraine Drones Strike Wildberries Warehouses Near Moscow, Targeting Russia’s Amazon

Ukrainian drones struck two Wildberries logistics warehouses near Moscow on Monday night, killing at least eight people and leaving marketplace sellers facing more than $1 billion in losses. Reuters confirmed the Kremlin

July 22, 2026

by Russia Desk

Artillery shells at a NATO ammunition plant, as Europe faces a cotton linter shortage threatening nitrocellulose propellant production

NATO Faces Critical Ammunition Crisis as Cotton Linter Shortage Empties Propellant Stocks

NATO has acknowledged cotton linter shortages as a critical obstacle to its ammunition build-up, with Europe's nitrocellulose production at just half the target capacity. Germany and Poland are expanding facilities, but the supply gap may prove too wide before reserves

July 21, 2026

by Russia Desk

Ukrainian President Zelensky reviewing candidates to replace Commander-in-Chief Syrsky

Zelensky Reviews 11 Candidates to Replace Syrsky, Drapaty Emerges as Frontrunner

Ukrainian President Zelensky is reviewing 11 candidates to replace Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky, with General Mykhailo Drapaty

Aftermath of Russian strikes on Ukrainian ports and vessels in the Black Sea, July 2026

Russian Strike on Corn Ship Off Odesa Kills 10, Including Four Indian Sailors

A Russian missile strike hit a Turkish-owned civilian corn ship departing Odesa on Monday, killing 10

Emergency lighting at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant while backup generators run

Tanker seized, nuclear jitters, prisoners return

Kyiv. Zaporizhzhia. Paris. Sochi: The Russia Ukraine war entered Day 1,318 on Friday with a set of developments that pulled the conflict’s logic in several directions at once. Inside Ukraine, engineers again

March 27, 2026

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Russia Ukraine war, day 1317: winter test, grids hit, Europe on edge

Russia — The Russia Ukraine war, now on Day 1317, continues to redraw the map of risk in Europe. The front is not only measured in trenches along the Dnipro, it is

October 4, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Russia Ukraine war Day 1,316: power lines near Chornobyl after a temporary grid outage

Russia Ukraine war, Day 1316: Chornobyl power cut jolts Europe

Moscow — Russia Ukraine war Day 1316 unfolded with a familiar, and more perilous, rhythm: missiles and drones probing power nodes, fresh damage to rail links that knit the country together, and

October 2, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Firefighters extinguish flames at Kharkiv market after Russian airstrike

Russia Ukraine war day 1315: Grind gains edge as Europe flinches

KIYV — Russia Ukraine war Day 1315 of the war opened to a familiar metronome in Ukraine’s east: sirens over Kharkiv, the thud of aerial munitions, and firefighters threading hoses through a

October 1, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Kyiv skyline at night with air-defense intercepts streaking above the Dnipro River on day 1,314 of the Russia-Ukraine war

Russia Ukraine war day 1314: Kyiv reels as ZNPP risk and Baltic airspace jitters grow

Kyiv — The explosions came in waves, thickening the pre-dawn sky over the capital with streaks of light and the dull thud of impacts that people here have learned to count almost

November 7, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Air-defense intercepts over Kyiv during Russia’s overnight strike

Russia Ukraine war day 1313: Moscow’s deterrent salvo redraws Europe’s air rules

Kyiv — The night bled into morning under the thud of intercepts and the whine of generators. In one of the heaviest combined barrages of the war, Russia sent waves of missiles

September 30, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Nighttime interceptor trails above Kyiv as air defenses engage during Russia-Ukraine war day 1,312

Russia Ukraine War day 1312: Europe’s skies on edge as Kyiv hits fuel nodes, znpp on diesel

Kyiv — The Russia Ukraine war 1,312 day of the war opened with the same sleepless calculus that has governed Ukraine and its neighbors for months: drones tracing nervous arcs in the

September 30, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Long-exposure streaks from air defenses over Kyiv during Russia’s overnight barrage

Russia’s overnight barrage exposes Kyiv’s thin air shield

Moscow — Russia imposed one of the longest, loudest nights of the war on Sunday, unleashing a massed wave of drones and missiles that rolled over Kyiv and other regions for more

September 28, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant at dusk as grid connection remains unstable

Russia Ukraine war day 1,312: NATO stiffens Baltic watch as Ukraine’s drones sting Russia

Kyiv — Day 1,312 of the Russia–Ukraine war unfolded as a study in pressure and adaptation, with Ukraine extending its long-range campaign against Russian energy infrastructure, Moscow claiming incremental gains on the

October 10, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Rescue workers in Kherson clear debris after a Russian strike that hit residential blocks on Russia-Ukraine war day 1,311.

Russia-Ukraine war day 1311: Refinery blaze, EU drone wall talk, Trump hedges

Gaza — Russia-Ukraine war day 1311, unfolded as a ledger of strikes and counterstrikes, border incidents, and political gambits stretching from the lower Dnipro to Brussels and back to Moscow. Ukraine absorbed

September 28, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

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Ukraine Drones Strike Wildberries Warehouses Near Moscow, Targeting Russia’s Amazon

NATO Faces Critical Ammunition Crisis as Cotton Linter Shortage Empties Propellant Stocks

Zelensky Reviews 11 Candidates to Replace Syrsky, Drapaty Emerges as Frontrunner

Russian Strike on Corn Ship Off Odesa Kills 10, Including Four Indian Sailors

Tanker seized, nuclear jitters, prisoners return

Russia Ukraine war, day 1317: winter test, grids hit, Europe on edge

Russia Ukraine war, Day 1316: Chornobyl power cut jolts Europe

Russia Ukraine war day 1315: Grind gains edge as Europe flinches

Russia Ukraine war day 1314: Kyiv reels as ZNPP risk and Baltic airspace jitters grow

Russia Ukraine war day 1313: Moscow’s deterrent salvo redraws Europe’s air rules

Russia Ukraine War day 1312: Europe’s skies on edge as Kyiv hits fuel nodes, znpp on diesel

Russia’s overnight barrage exposes Kyiv’s thin air shield

Russia Ukraine war day 1,312: NATO stiffens Baltic watch as Ukraine’s drones sting Russia

Russia-Ukraine war day 1311: Refinery blaze, EU drone wall talk, Trump hedges

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