Europe needs a strong bulwark against Russian aggression, but building and maintaining it will be challenging.

After a year of Russian advances, the goal for 2026 is simply to survive, said one officer in eastern Ukraine. “It’s hard to make any plans,” he said.

Ukrainian forces are under growing pressure in the south of the country, where less well-equipped units are vastly outnumbered by Russian brigades that have taken hundreds of square kilometers of territory in recent weeks.

Drones have turned the front line into a kill zone, and made casualty evacuation extremely difficult and dangerous.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday named his country’s intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, to run his office on Friday, placing one of the country’s most popular figures at the

Russian President Vladimir Putin's residence allegedly targeted by Ukrainian drones, but drone expert Cameron Chell says the claims lack credibility due to tactical impossibilities.

December saw a new record number of Ukrainian long-range drones shot down by Russian forces, according to statistics published by the Russian Defense Ministry.

The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to January 1, 2026, in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,206,910 people, including 1,060 people in the previous day. — Ukrinform.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed the head of the country's military intelligence as his new chief of staff

The situation in Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region is stable, but the enemy is trying to bypass the city and expand its control, Ukrainian military expert and analyst Oleksandr Trehubov commented on the situation in Vovchansk during a TV broadcast.