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Russian Occupation Update, January 8, 2026
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (22+ words) Russian Occupation Update, January 8, 2026Institute for the Study of War Nothing significant to report. Data Cutoff: 5 PM...
Our readers' questions about the war, answered. Vol. 10
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (1731+ words) Artillerymen of Ukraine's 152nd Separate Jaeger Brigade operate in combat positions as artillery units fire toward Russian positions in the Pokrovsk district of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on Jan. 1, 2026. (Marharyta...Getty Images) Editor's note: We asked members of the Kyiv Independent…...
Opinion: Algorithms of War are Shifting
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (977+ words)The Munich Security Conference went without the soundtrack of explosions and death tolls. Russian aerial attacks...but this was now somehow "business as usual." Over the past week, Ukrainians have sensed a change in the algorithm of Russian air attacks....
Zelenskyy: New SBU operations changing course of wars constantly being planned
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (114+ words) Zelenskyy: New SBU operations changing course of wars constantly being planned-" President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy heard a report by SBU Head Yevhen Khmara, in particular, on the combat operations of the State Security Service. "And what concerns the…...
Zelenskyy: Military understands how to monitor ceasefire and end of war
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (219+ words) During the two-day negotiations in Geneva, Ukraine, the U.S., and the Russian Federation were constructive regarding the military direction; in particular, the military understands how to monitor a ceasefire and the end of the war, more details will follow after the…...
Filming the Unthinkable: How War Changes the Lens
1+ week, 2+ day ago (73+ words) Maksym Nakonechnyi on storytelling during wartime, the psychology of conflict, and his Cannes-acclaimed debut Butterfly Vision. Filming the Unthinkable: How War Changes the Lens Ukrainian director Maksym Nakonechnyi on storytelling during wartime, the psychology of conflict, and his Cannes-acclaimed debut…...
[For Anniversary] Culture During War: Between Growth and Trauma
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (552+ words) full-scale invasion, Ukraine implemented thousands of cultural projects abroad, won its first Academy Award, started the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Foundation, and so much more. War does not revive culture " it sharpens its responses...exposes inner strength. Ukrainian art today is…...
The Russian Way of War
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (216+ words)The Pentagon at War with Anthropic Jasmine Crockett Calls in Kamala's Kavalry How to Avoid...Point Earlier this week, Jim Geraghty reflected on the state of the war in Ukraine after four years. He writes: Those numbers,...accurate are very…...
The neverending soap opera: how Zelenskyy's team is preparing for the next phase of the war
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1701+ words) enough votes," fretted Andrii Motovylovets, the generally quiet deputy leader of the Servant of the People parliamentary faction, at a recent meeting with the president. Sources at the President's Office told Ukrainska Pravda that the meeting had been…...
Inside the Kyiv High School Where Teenagers Prepare for War
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (1593+ words) At 6:30am, the school day at Ivan Bohun High School in Kyiv begins. Students at the boarding school for boys and girls aged 15 to 17 wake up, make their beds, brush their teeth. At 7am, they go for a 20-minute run, followed by…...