Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Ukraine unveils new interceptor drone capable of speeds over 320 km/h
By Andrii Konyk — 6 March, 18:37
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/03/06/8024259/
Ukrainian defence company The Fourth Law (TFL) has unveiled the Zerov-8, an autonomous interceptor drone equipped with an AI-powered automatic target detection system.
Source: press service for The Fourth Law https://thefourthlaw.ai/blog/the-fourth-law-launches-zerov
Details: The new interceptor was developed using a tailsitter design which allows the UAV to take off and land vertically. The company says the Zerov-8 has a maximum speed of 326 km/h and an interception speed of up to 270 km/h. The drone can operate within a radius of up to 20 km. The interceptor carries a warhead weighing up to half a kilogram and is equipped with either a daytime or thermal camera.
A key feature of the new interceptor, the company says, is TFL's Anti-Shahed detection module, based on artificial intelligence.
Quote: "The system autonomously detects a drone by analysing the object's movement, its thermal signature and other parameters using AI. After detection, the system 'highlights' the target and continues stable tracking while operating in parallel without interfering with the flight. The operator chooses the direction of interception independently. The module is installed on board together with a thermal camera (typically a Kurbas-640 Beta), a flight controller or a video transmitter."
Details: The detection system on the Zerov-8 can detect targets up to 1 km away in ideal contrast conditions, while in difficult weather conditions it can identify an enemy drone at distances of up to 300 metres. The development is currently undergoing the final tests in a full cycle of autonomous interception, the company said.
There are plans for the drone to be integrated with external radars to automatically guide the Zerov-8 onto an interception trajectory and minimise the human factor. In particular, the UAV will receive coordinates from Skyguard systems or ground control stations. The developers also plan to add safeguards against loss of communication and a function ensuring guaranteed target capture within a 500-metre radius.
The Fourth Law explained that the interceptor was named after Mykola Zerov, a Ukrainian poet and translator who belonged to the generation known as the Executed Renaissance. Zerov was arrested by the Soviet authorities and shot in the Sandarmokh Forest on 3 November 1937. In doing so, the company is continuing its line of products named after Ukrainian cultural figures who were persecuted in the USSR.
Background: Earlier, the Ukrainian company Odd Systems presented an updated line of the Kurbas cameras that will be used on Zerov-8 interceptors. In addition, Yaroslav Azhniuk, founder of The Fourth Law, has announced that several of the manufacturer's products were codified in September last year.
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Money Matters
By Peeter Helme | March 06, 2026
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/06/ukraine-energy-economy-march-20
26/
According to the OECD, Ukrainian defense spending consumes 25% of GDP, with the budget deficit running near 20% of GDP — putting public debt on a trajectory toward 120% of GDP during 2026, up from 50% in 2021. All civilian expenditures remain entirely dependent on Western aid. The current account deficit ballooned from 8.4% of GDP in 2024 to 16.2% in 2025, as imports grew 21% while exports fell 4%.
The Kyiv School of Economics Institute assessed in February that Ukraine’s total war losses reached $1.7 trillion — three times its prewar GDP.
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Russia’s failure to secure quick victory in Ukraine seen as major setback for Kremlin, analyst says
Experts say the extended fighting has damaged the image Russia once projected as a dominant military power.
March 5, 2026
https://www.dagens.com/news/russias-failure-to-secure-quick-victory-in
-ukraine-seen-as-major-setback-for-kremlin-analyst-says
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Russia is reportedly sharing intelligence with Iran to support Iranian attacks against US forces in the Middle East in contrast to the Kremlin’s recent attempts to frame Russia as a potential US ally and US-Russia relations as increasingly friendly. Three officials told the Washington Post on March 6 that Russia has given Iran the locations of US military assets, including warships and aircraft, since the US-Israeli February 28 strikes against Iran.[1] One of the officials characterized Russia’s provision of targeting information to strike US forces in the Middle East as a “pretty comprehensive effort.” The Washington Post noted that analysts indicated that Russia’s reported intelligence sharing fits the pattern of Iran’s strikes against US command and control infrastructure, radars, and temporary structures. The Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) Principal Research Scientist Mike Peterson stated that Russia could be giving Iran high-quality satellite imagery with which Iran could identify what bases the United States and its allies are currently using and other information, such as the location of aircraft, intelligence stations, and logistics flows.[2] Iran may not have regular access to high-quality satellite imagery, even from commercially available sources, and may be relying on Russia to get such imagery. Prominent commercial publisher of satellite imagery Planet Labs enacted a policy on March 6 subjecting all new imagery collected over the Gulf States and adjacent conflict zones, excluding Iran, to a mandatory 96-hour delay before making it publicly available, and other companies have held policies to never release images of US or allied bases.[3] Russian intelligence sharing, thus, may be supporting Iranian strikes on US military assets.
ISW has long assessed that the Kremlin has self-defined the United States as one of Russia’s primary geopolitical adversaries and has been conducting several strategic efforts to challenge US interests globally.[4] ISW has previously observed reports that Russia provided targeting data to the Iranian-backed Houthis in 2024, with which the Houthis used to strike western shipping vessels.[5] Russian intelligence sharing with a state against which the United States is conducting a military campaign belies recent official Russian statements that Russia is interested in warming its relations with the United States.[6] Russia is likely only maintaining a friendly facade toward the United States as a means of persuading the United States to abandon Ukraine in ongoing peace negotiations and secure an unwarranted reset of US-Russia relations, allowing Russia to more easily accomplish its longstanding goal of destroying the Ukrainian state.
https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive
-campaign-assessment-march-6-2026/
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Kyiv reports zero deaths from cold during energy crisis — but there's a catch
By Polina Moroziuk
March 8, 2026 9:22 AM
https://kyivindependent.com/kyiv-reports-zero-deaths-from-winter-outag
es-but-doubts-remain/
During the winter, rumors circulated online suggesting that cold indoor conditions may have contributed to several deaths in the capital. Among the cases that drew attention were the deaths of an 82-year-old Pavlo Loiko and another 88-year-old woman in Kyiv's Podil district. In both instances, city and regional authorities said forensic examinations determined the cause of death to be chronic cardiovascular disease rather than hypothermia.
But an employee with a Kyiv-based volunteer organization, who chose to remain anonymous, said they were "skeptical" that official data captured the full impact of the winter outages.
The volunteer described regularly encountering elderly residents struggling to endure prolonged cold at home during blackout periods. "We often arrived at apartments that were simply freezing," the volunteer said. "Older people were wearing multiple layers indoors, wrapped in scarves and hats, trying to keep warm however they could."
"I think some people could have died from cold conditions," the volunteer said. "But hypothermia usually is not what gets written as the diagnosis. The cold triggers something else, a stroke, respiratory failure, another condition, and that becomes the official cause of death."
Asked whether cold exposure can still play a role in mortality even if it is not listed as the official cause of death, Heisler said it can.
"Oh, absolutely," she said. "Cold can increase cardiovascular mortality and respiratory mortality. It doesn't have to be recorded as hypothermia."
The health effects of cold exposure can also emerge days after the initial event.
"Mortality risk peaks about five to six days after severe cold exposure, and it can last for up to around twenty-three days," Heisler said.
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Russia spent three years trying to break Western support for Ukraine—then Iran did it in a week
The Iran war’s first casualty may be the world’s attention to Ukraine.
By Matthew Parish | March 07, 2026
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/07/iran-war-russia-ukraine-western
-support/
The windfall Moscow didn’t plan for
Financial markets reacted instantly. Within days of the first strikes on Iranian infrastructure, Brent crude rose above $93 per barrel for the first time since 2023. Maritime insurers increased risk premiums for vessels passing through the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, while energy analysts warned that even limited disruption could remove several million barrels per day from global markets.
For Russia, whose war economy remains heavily dependent on hydrocarbon revenues, rising oil prices are not merely an economic development but a strategic windfall.
As several analysts have already noted, higher energy prices directly strengthen Moscow’s fiscal position. Russia’s federal budget still depends heavily on oil and gas receipts; every sustained increase in global prices expands the Kremlin’s capacity to finance its war effort. In that sense the Middle Eastern crisis arrives at a convenient moment for Moscow, offsetting some of the pressure imposed by Western sanctions.
But the implications run deeper than energy markets.
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Weekend Update #175: The Week In Which Ukraine Stood Up To Help The USA And The USA Stood Up To Help Russia
Also, Ukrainian Territorial Gains And Russian Personnel Losses in February
Phillips P. OBrien | Mar 08, 2026
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update-175-the-week-in-
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We have two powers in action this week. One, Ukraine, has adjusted to the realities of modern war. It was not easy, but the Ukrainians have been flexible, determined and resourceful. The other, the USA, was smug, domineering and did not understand what it was doing. The result, not surprisingly, was that the USA was left unprepared for its war and has had to ask for Ukrainian help for itself and its allies.
This kind of miscalculation happens in war, btw. The thing that does not is that while the USA was begging for aid from Ukraine, it was providing protection and a windfall of support for the power trying to destroy Ukraine—Russia. So we have a situation that the Ukrainians are helping the USA and the USA is helping/protecting Russia. This must be the lead story for the week.
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Russia’s allies keep dying. Russia keeps doing nothing. Defense analyst explains the Axis of Evil’s fatal flaw.
The whole system runs on one thing. Take it away, and there’s no axis at all.
By Alya Shandra | 09/03/2026
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/09/russias-allies-keep-dying-russi
a-keeps-doing-nothing-defense-analyst-explains-the-axis-of-evils-fatal-flaw/
Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei is dead. He is the third Russian ally to fall in three months, following Assad and Maduro.
In a 2024 Euromaidan Press interview, defense analyst Mykhailo Samus mapped the China-Russia-Iran-North Korea alliance as an interconnected system and argued that Ukraine's war is the key to dismantling it.
We asked him whether that system is now falling apart—and what the Iran war actually changes for Ukraine's fight.
The "Axis of Evil" sounds formidable. But Samus argues it has always had one structural weakness: without China, it wouldn't exist at all.
"This system works because China provides all the resources, money, technology, and components," Samus says. "They created the flow of military-technical cooperation between all these countries. A bright example is the Shahed kamikaze drone—designed by Iran with components from China, the US, and other countries. These technologies were transferred to Russia, and the thousands of drones attacking Ukraine are the result."
The same pipeline feeds North Korea, which is getting technology for submarines and missiles—a problem the Pacific region will feel sooner or later, Samus warns.
But China uses proxies rather than acting directly. Russia destroys the European order. Iran destabilized the Middle East through Hezbollah, Hamas, and other proxies while keeping Syria in chaos. Venezuela worked in South America. North Korea handles the Pacific.
Step by step, though, Iran has been losing its zone of influence. And China isn't stepping up to defend it.
"China is not ready to say openly that they are prepared to compete directly with the United States," Samus says. "They prefer to sit by the river and watch the bodies of their enemies float past."
Even Iran's own leadership sees it. "They said, of course, China is supporting us," Samus notes. "But they supported with components and machinery—for money, not for free. And this is not how allies do serious business."
China still lacks the nuclear, economic, and military power for a direct confrontation with the US. "They are not even decisive regarding Taiwan," Samus says.
If the US-led coalition succeeds in stabilizing Iran, the implications for China go far beyond the Middle East. "China loses another very strong proxy," Samus says. "This could mean China loses the capability and even the intention to dominate the world."
If China is the silent backbone, Russia is the helpless bystander. Three allies gone in three months, and Moscow didn't lift a finger.
Why not? Because it can't.
"Russia doesn't have any resources," Samus says flatly. "What can they do now? They openly said they are nothing here. They cannot even say something against Trump or the military forces collected by the United States and Israel around Iran."
Russia just sits and keeps silent, he says—can't even tell Washington, "This is our friend, you shouldn't kill our friend." A lot of Putin's declared friends are already dead. Nothing from the Kremlin.
Samus reserves particular scorn for Moscow's offer to mediate.
"They said they could be a moderator. What the hell, a moderator? Your friends are killed by the United States, and you say you could be a moderator? You should just get out if you cannot propose something strong and effective."
Russia and Iran: intelligence sharing, friction, and a ballistic missile pause
The partnership wasn't just drones. Russia and Iran were exchanging intelligence and military technologies righ
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