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05:25 PM

Drones reportedly strike Russia's Omsk oil refinery in Siberia

Videos and images from local residents, shared by Ukrainian monitoring channels, show explosions, fire, and smoke rising from the area surrounding the oil refinery.

12:54 PM

Russian drone barrage on Kyiv kills 6, injures 17, disrupts electricity, water supplies

At 10:00 a.m. local time, Ukraine’s biggest private energy firm DTEK announced emergency energy shutdowns in Brovary, Buchanskyi, Vyshgorod, and Boryspil districts of the capital.

04:54 PM

Polish SIM cards found in Russian drones downed in Poland

An investigation on a mass Russian drone incursion into Polish air space on Sept. 9 concluded on Oct. 8.

04:12 PM

Inside Operation Vivaldi — how Ukraine uses drones, robots to liberate territory in Donetsk Oblast

DONETSK OBLAST — On a screen, live footage from a reconnaissance drone shows two men in Ukrainian pixel camouflage dashing in short bursts through the ruins of apartment buildings. Then they vanish into a basement. It is late summer, and the 3rd Army Corps and attached units are fully engaged in a counteroffensive in the Lyman sector called Operation Vivaldi. Russian forces are trying to recapture Lyman, a city in Donetsk Oblast that Russian officials have claimed their forces control. Ukrainia

Tsyhan assembles a Dart in the Lyman sector, Ukraine, on Aug. 11, 2026.

03:55 PM

Ukrainian actor Serhii Strelnikov enlists in Unmanned Systems Forces

Strelnikov has starred in several critically acclaimed films in recent years, including the 2026 action-thriller "Killhouse," where he played a special forces commander.

03:09 PM

US, Russia confirm Trump's latest Ukraine peace push is falling apart

At this point, there appears to be no prospect of a negotiated settlement, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

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Exclusive: Trump's push for a Ukraine energy truce runs into a Putin problem

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Rubio presses Russia for answers over suspected plague death in Siberia

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