Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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“To Be Continued”: Ukraine Burns Third Russian FSB Patrol Boat This Year
By Roman Kohanets | Jul 17, 2026 19:44
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/to-be-continued-ukraine-burns
-third-russian-fsb-patrol-boat-this-year-20860
. . . NASA's FIRMS satellite system recorded a fire on the water off the eastern edge of Kerch beginning around 2 a.m. local time. That location, the report indicated, did not match other Russian vessels struck in the area that day, pointing to a separate hit. . . .
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Ukraine: Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17
Council of the EU
Press release
17 July 2026 10:30
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2026/07/17/ukr
aine-statement-by-the-high-representative-on-behalf-of-the-european-union-on-the-occasion-of-the-12th-anniversary-of-the-downing-of-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh17/
The European Union has welcomed the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) of 9 July 2025, and the decision by the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) of 12 May 2025, that the Russian Federation is responsible for the downing of Flight MH17 and for the deaths of 298 people on board. The ECtHR also held that the Russian Federation is responsible for the additional suffering that these events have caused the next of kin.
Australia and the Netherlands requested in August 2025 that the Russian Federation immediately enter into negotiations with them in good faith to resolve expeditiously the matters of full reparation and other legal consequences arising from the Russian Federation’s breach of its international obligations under the Chicago Convention. The Russian Federation has never responded to this request. Instead, the Russian Federation filed on 18 September 2025 proceedings against Australia and the Netherlands before the International Court of Justice exercising its right of appeal against decisions of the ICAO Council.
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Mykhailo Fedorov Transformed Ukraine's Military Into A High-Tech Force. His President Just Fired Him.
The corrupt old guard wins a critical internal fight in Kyiv.
Jul 16, 2026
https://www.trenchart.us/p/mykhailo-fedorov-transformed-ukraines
On Jan. 14, Ukrainian Pres. Volodymyr Zelensky tapped Mykhailo Fedorov, then 34 and the country’s minister of digital transformation, to head the ministry of defense.
Six months later on July 15, Zelensky fired Fedorov and appointed Yevhenii Khmara, the head of the state security agency, to replace Federov in an acting capacity.
The move dismayed many Ukrainians and allies. Thousands gathered in Kyiv to protest the decision. In six short months, Federov had reshaped Ukraine’s war effort, primarily by cracking down on corruption inside the defense ministry and expanding the Ukrainian drone force.
At the same time, Federov had correctly identified one of the main sources of dysfunction inside the armed forces: commander-in-chief Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi.
The CIC has been rightly accused of cronyism. Syrskyi has funneled weapons and scarce manpower into the assault forces, a branch of the ground forces that he personally controls, and which is notorious for brutality and blunt tactics that tend to waste precious manpower.
Syrskyi has also encouraged the formation of “empty” new brigades that lack manpower or equipment but create new command billets that senior officers can dole out to loyal subordinates as a kind of reward for complicity.
At some point in the last few months, Federov pushed for Zelensky to fire Syrskyi. But Zelensky, apparently fearful of replacing a fiercely loyal commander-in-chief with a fiercely independent one, refused. “President Zelensky chose the comfort of the old, incompetent guard over change and a new vision,” wrote Tatarigami, the founder of the Frontelligence Insight analysis group. “Meanwhile, General Syrskyi remains untouchable.”
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Ukraine’s Dr. Strangelove
A rocket designer with a dubious past sets out to build a missile shield with Europe—and without America.
By Simon Shuster | July 17, 2026, 8:17 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/07/ukraine-denys-sh
tilerman-drone-missile/687931/
Nations don’t always get to pick their heroes, especially not in a time of war. Most Ukrainians, given the choice, would probably not want a character like Denys Shtilerman to be the architect of their revenge against Russia. He studied in Russia, became wealthy in Russia, worked for a Russian military institute, and served two stints in Russian jails. Some of his close associates are wanted in Ukraine for corruption. Yet Shtilerman, a prolific designer of weapons, has earned admiration across Europe for his role in Ukraine’s defense.
His company, Fire Point, produces the bulk of the long-range drones that Ukraine has used to bring the war to Russian soil. Scores of them roll off the company’s production lines each day to be launched into Russia by night. Its missiles reach as far as Siberia, more than 1,000 miles away. The campaign of strikes, mostly targeting oil refineries and other energy infrastructure, has humiliated the Kremlin, snarled the logistics of its military, and forced many millions of Russians to suffer through rampant shortages of fuel.
For the first time in years, Ukraine appears to have Russia on the ropes, and no supplier of weapons, foreign or domestic, is doing more than Shtilerman to keep it there. His ambitions go far beyond Ukraine. In several interviews this year in Kyiv, he told me about his plans to change the global balance of power by developing cheap and effective missile technology. Above all, he wants to help Europe build its own missile-defense shield without relying on the United States. “What’s horrible is that America, even before Trump, was a completely unreliable partner and ally,” Shtilerman said this winter during a tour of his missile factory near Kyiv. “We want to be independent of all suppliers, especially the Americans.”
At a gathering on Monday in Paris, the leaders of nine European countries formalized their plans to build such a system alongside Ukraine: Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, all members of the NATO alliance. In announcing what they called their Integrated Anti-Ballistic Missile Coalition, these nations said in a joint statement: “We acknowledge the unique experience of Ukraine, gained in defence against Russia’s war of aggression.” Ukraine, they said, would be a founding partner in the missile shield.
Shtilerman has spent more than a year laying the ground for this system; he prefers to use its code name, Project Freyja, after the Norse goddess of beauty, love, death, and war. In February, he showed me the missile, known as the FP-7x, developed to serve as the basis for Freyja. “This is what the very autonomy we’ve been talking about for years looks like,” Shtilerman wrote in response to Monday’s announcement in Paris. “It’s not America that decides whether Europe can defend itself. Europe is building its own shield.”
The project illustrates how Europe has reacted to President Trump’s threats against NATO, such as his desire to seize Greenland and annex Canada. Denmark, which has faced the most aggressive rhetoric from Trump of any NATO member, has also been the most intent on working with Ukraine and, in particular, with Fire Point. But it’s not alone. By developing their own arms industries and forming new defensive coalitions, many European states have sought to ease their reliance on the U.S. for their security. The shift has made Ukraine a valued partner.
It has also marked a dramatic reversal of fortunes for Shtilerman. Earlier this year, his company got mixed up in one of the worst corruption scandals in Ukraine’s recent history. Shtilerman has not been accused of breaking the law, but anti-corruption investigators are reviewing some of his contracts wit
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CIA Director Says AI Drones Reduce Russian Recruits’ Battlefield Lifespan to Minutes
In brief: CIA Director John Ratcliffe reported that Ukrainian artificial intelligence-guided drones have reduced the average battlefield survival time of new Russian recruits to 20-30 minutes. Speaking at a defense summit, Ratcliffe noted these cost-effective systems help Ukraine counter Russia’s manpower advantage, as US officials estimate Russian losses at 7,000 soldiers weekly.
By Kyiv Post | July 18, 2026, 1:55 pm
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/80579
. . . Ratcliffe’s remarks coincide with reports that Washington and its allies are evaluating new funding mechanisms for Ukrainian drone development programs, with the objective of gaining access to Kyiv’s AI targeting technologies.
Integration of Ukrainian combat data into global AI systems
The push to access combat-tested AI systems is already evident among allied nations and defense contractors.
The Australian Army recently tested the Vector AI reconnaissance drone during the Southern Jackaroo exercises in Queensland. Manufactured by the German company Quantum Systems, the platform utilizes software refined through extensive combat deployment in Ukraine.
The electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) drone features AI data processing capabilities that generate real-time terrain maps and autonomously track targets. Quantum Systems reported that thousands of flight hours in Ukraine provided the necessary data to adapt the platform to operate effectively in complex electronic warfare environments.
Corporal Harrison Hinson of the Australian Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment stated the system functions as an additional tool for intelligence and strike capabilities, reducing the need for forward physical reconnaissance by military personnel.
In the private sector, US-based data-labeling firm Enabled Intelligence recently released an AI training dataset containing 500,000 hours of drone footage recorded during the war in Ukraine. The full-motion video library includes pre-labeled imagery covering aerial object detection and vehicle classification.
Enabled Intelligence CEO Peter Kant stated the dataset is intended to train autonomous military systems using unsimulated combat footage, reducing the time required to validate imagery. The dataset is currently accessible to approved users in the US, Ukraine, and NATO member states.
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Russia bet 50 vehicles that the drones would miss. The drones did not miss.
Russian commanders had banned their own vehicles from these roads, knowing what the drones do to them. Then they lined up 50 and sent them anyway.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/07/15/50-russian-vehicles-hit/
1. Why did Russian commanders line up more than 50 vehicles just a few kilometers south of the gray zone in Donetsk Oblast?
2. The vehicles were easy prey for Ukrainian drones
3. Occupied Ukraine is becoming more dangerous by the day for all Russian vehicles
The Russian force in Ukraine has mostly parked its armored vehicles and shifted to infantry-led assaults across the drone-patrolled gray zone.
Which is why what happened on or just before 8 July is so bewildering. Despite Russian commanders concluding that vehicles are too easy for Ukraine's tiny first-person-view drones to find and strike, and despite a reported ban on Russian vehicular traffic on eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Ring Road, the Russian Center Group of Forces massed no fewer than 50 vehicles 12 km south of the gray zone stretching between Kostiantynivka and Toretske in Donetsk Oblast.
The outcome was predictable. Drones from the Ukrainian State Security Service's Ivan Franko Group detected and attacked the column of trucks, vans, cars, all-terrain vehicles, and motorcycles just south of the ring road near the village of Malynivka, an important base for Russian forces fighting in Donetsk Oblast. When the smoke and dust cleared, more than 50 vehicles had been hit and immobilized if not destroyed.
"Despite the ban on movement of cargo and military transport on the Donetsk Ring Road, IFG with a firm hand and drones that you donated 'detained' several violators," the Ivan Franko Group quipped.
It's unclear how many Russians were killed or wounded. But the Center Group of Forces clearly failed at whatever it was trying to achieve—and the assembly of the column, in daylight, within drone reach, is the puzzle. Russian commanders knew what the sky over the gray zone does to vehicles. They sent the column anyway.
It's possible the column was trying to reach the Donetsk Ring Road in order to turn west toward Toretske or east toward Kostiantynivka. Russian forces are attacking in both directions, aiming to break through Ukrainian defenses to open a path, any path, toward the twin free cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, 22 km north of Kostiantynivka.
Left or right?
Whether the Russians planned on investing those vehicles in a direct assault in either direction is anyone's guess. It's possible the column was merely transporting infantry closer to the gray zone, sparing them a long foot march ahead of a dangerous foot assault.
But it's also possible that, yes, the Russians meant to send the trucks, vans, cars, all-terrain vehicles, and motorcycles across the gray zone. Vehicular assaults are rare these days, but they still happen from time to time. They almost never succeed. There are just too many drones over and behind the gray zone.
Indeed, the vehicular kill zone is getting wider by the day as Ukraine deploys more and more drones for strikes on Russian supply lines at depths up to 200 km. The Ukrainian counterlogistics campaign that kicked off this spring has struck potentially thousands of Russian trucks as well as trains, bridges, and, more recently, cargo ships plying the Sea of Azov and Black Sea hauling critical war supplies.
The Russians are now adding anti-drone cages to some trucks and guarding the most important convoys and supply routes with gun-armed air defense teams. More convoys are taking back roads, hoping to escape the attention of the ever-present drones.
But these measures aren't working as more Ukrainian drones take flight, including $6,000 AI-assisted fixed-wing models and $500 first-person-view quadcopters with detachable wings for greater range. Scrutinizing official videos for evidence of drone strikes, mapper Clément Molin tallied 600 destroyed or
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CIA Director Says AI Drones Reduce Russian Recruits’ Battlefield Lifespan to Minutes
In brief: CIA Director John Ratcliffe reported that Ukrainian artificial intelligence-guided drones have reduced the average battlefield survival time of new Russian recruits to 20-30 minutes. Speaking at a defense summit, Ratcliffe noted these cost-effective systems help Ukraine counter Russia’s manpower advantage, as US officials estimate Russian losses at 7,000 soldiers weekly.
By Kyiv Post | July 18, 2026, 1:55 pm
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/80579
. . . Ratcliffe’s remarks coincide with reports that Washington and its allies are evaluating new funding mechanisms for Ukrainian drone development programs, with the objective of gaining access to Kyiv’s AI targeting technologies.
Oh look!
Another get-rich-quick scheme!
This is a load of bollocks.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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As long as we're talking about Russians, they're just fucking numbers, right?
What's 7,000 men dying weekly?
Now do Iran.
Let's see how many lefty retarded faggots start screaming about 7,000 Iranians dying every week for over 2 years.
Seriously. Fuck you, Second.
Everybody hates you.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Putin, Gerasimov, and other senior Russian commanders have routinely advanced claims that intend to convince Russians, Ukrainians, and the West that a Russian victory in Ukraine is inevitable.[7] These claims of advance continue to portray Putin’s fabricated reality, which significantly differs from that portrayed by all available evidence.
https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive
-campaign-assessment-july-18-2026/
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How food delivery works in Ukraine’s ‘killing zone’
In the breadbasket of the world, people on the front lines can’t access food without the help of U.N. convoys outrunning Russian drones.
By Bartosz Brzezinski | July 18, 2026 4:00 am CET
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-front-line-food-crisis-un-conv
oys-russian-drones/
Ukraine's farms grew some 60 million metric tons of grain this year, enough to help feed hundreds of millions of people abroad. Yet along the country's own front line, 700,000 Ukrainians depend for their next meal on U.N. convoys that barely stop moving.
The trucks roll through whole cities draped in anti-drone netting, mesh strung over roads and rooftops like the covers on fruit trees. They pause just long enough for families to hurry out and grab a box, then move on.
They cannot linger, because Russian drones now strike vehicles and people across a "killing zone" that reaches 50 kilometers from the front. That’s up from 10 to 15 kilometers not long ago, according to the World Food Programme's acting chief Carl Skau, speaking to POLITICO in Brussels after a week visiting front-line operations from Kharkiv to Odesa. . . .
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