
Russia launched more attacks on Ukraine's Naftogaz facilities in 2025 than in previous 3 years combined
The most difficult period was October, when Russia struck the company 25 times and took out nearly 60% of Ukraine’s gas production.

The most difficult period was October, when Russia struck the company 25 times and took out nearly 60% of Ukraine’s gas production.
Investigators and bomb disposal experts continue to work at the scene, the report read.

"We agreed to continue and move forward," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

"We will significantly step up efforts to counter all forms of his facilitation of the killing of Ukrainians. We will work with our partners so that this has a global effect," Zelensky said.

DONETSK OBLAST — Walking through the mine-infested field under intense Russian drone surveillance was the scariest part of the mission for 22-year-old infantryman Mykola. "If you stop, you die," said Mykola, a small-framed soldier with dark circles under his eyes and a tired stare. "When we were walking to get to the positions, it wasn't hard to walk — it was hard to realize that you may not walk out alive because there were a lot of our dead around." The walk to his positions near the easter

Russia launched an Iskander-M ballistic missile and 126 drones at Ukraine overnight, the Air Force said.

The number includes 740 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

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When Russia announced a "partial" mobilization in the fall of 2022, its society experienced a genuine shock. The queues at the Upper Lars border crossing into Georgia and the chaotic roundups of reservists are still fresh in public memory. The Russian authorities learned from that episode and shifted tactics toward a more concealed form of mobilization. Several tools were deployed at once: mass recruitment from prisons, sending convicts to the front in exchange for pardons, and aggressive enli



