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Shadow fleet tanker reportedly ablaze near Russian port city Sochi
The ship may have been attacked by unmanned surface vessels, Russian Telegram channels suggest.
Poland to deploy Patriots near Ukrainian border, announces $26 billion civil defense plan
The money will be spent on shelters, equipment, rescue bases, stocpiles, and secure water and energy supplies in case of natural disasters and war, according to Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Klitschko's promise of 50 mobile shelters for Kyiv set to fall far short
The city administration said the district administrations did not request funding for mobile shelters when the budget was drafted.
Europe is learning the wrong lesson from Russia's drone war
European governments are preparing for a form of confrontation that their current investments do not fully match. While Russian-linked sabotage usually uses drones, logistics networks, criminal intermediaries, and deniable proxies against European cities, official policies and national strategies remain focused on detecting and intercepting each incident as it arises. This approach treats only the instrument of attack, leaving the vulnerability it exploits mainly overlooked. That vulnerabilit
Russian losses to Ukrainian drones surge in early October, Madyar says
Between Oct. 1 and Oct. 5, Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces recorded 2,699 Russian troops killed or wounded, compared with 1,931 during the same period in September, Robert Brovdi, commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, said.
Rubio presses Russia for answers over suspected plague death in Siberia
"We're watching it very closely, hour by hour," U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
About Donetsk Oblast
The Kyiv Independent's news and on-the-ground reporting from Donetsk Oblast, covering 26,517 square kilometers (10,239 square miles) in Ukraine’s East with a pre-war population of approximately 4.1 million. The administrative center is Kramatorsk, as Donetsk city has remained under Russian occupation since 2014. Donetsk Oblast has been the scene of intense fighting, for example, around the cities of Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Vuhledar, as Moscow attempts to capture the entire region.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky previously announced that twelve such turrets had been installed where Russian jet-powered drones have been particularly active, including around Kyiv.
