Drones and missiles
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EXPLAINER: Mishustin withholds the military figure; Kyiv reads US$12 billion for jet drones
The draft budget the Russian government approved on September 24 shows no amount for the military.
EXPLAINER: Anand vows to disrupt the shadow fleet, and Ottawa has sanctioned no ship since June
A Russian drone struck a cargo ship off Odesa oblast overnight from September 22 to 23. Its Ukrainian captain died, according to the Ukrainian…
EXPLAINER: Brussels pays for Kyiv’s drones and ties its budget aid to a parcel law
There is a number on this parcel: €150. It is the threshold below which a parcel ordered from abroad enters Ukraine free of VAT.…
NARRATIVE: Pechersk, 8 a.m., a Kremlin-launched jet Shahed and a 14-year-old’s empty place
A 14-year-old boy is missing in Kyiv tonight. We do not know his first name. The authorities have not released it. I will not…
COMMENTARY: In Zaporizhzhia, Russian drones hit the ambulances the next strike will need
An ambulance goes. That is its whole job. It waits, engine off, and when the city hears the explosion, it heads toward the noise…
QUICK TAKE: RIA Novosti threatens Lithuania with missiles, pulls the text, denies nothing
RIA Novosti never wrote that it was false. On September 25, at noon Moscow time, the page of a column on the Russian state…
ANALYSIS: Moscow claims 592 drones intercepted, Rostov counts a refinery shut down
Five hundred ninety-two. On the morning of September 25, Russia’s Defence Ministry publishes its overnight count. Between 8 p.m. on the 24th and 8…
EXPLAINER: Kyiv targets the Iskander before its first flight, in Voronezh rubber
It all comes down to one tiny component. Not a missile. Not a launcher. A diode.
SPECIAL REPORT: Six missiles toward Taif, and the Mecca pact summons generals, not its clause
Here is what will come out of Riyadh. It can be written already. Words about coordination. Words about solidarity. Words about structures. Words about…