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28+ min ago (412+ words) Russian "forces took control of the villages of "Kucherivka in Ukraine's "northern Kharkiv region and "Rivne "in "the eastern Donetsk region, the defence "ministry said on "Sunday. Moscow carried out "group strikes on "Ukrainian transport infrastructure, fuel and energy facilities, military airfields and long-range drone complexes, "the ministry "added. Reuters could not independently verify "the battlefield reports. Russia's defence ministry said air defences destroyed 77 Ukrainian drones launched overnight, as both sides continue cross-border air attacks in the nearly "four-year-old war. The drones were downed over seven regions in southern and central Russia and over Russian-annexed Crimea, the ministry said in a statement on the "Telegram messaging app. A power transmission tower was damaged in the Rostov "region bordering Ukraine about 1,000km south of Moscow, leaving "about "250 "residents without electricity, Rostov governor Yuri Slyusar said on Telegram, adding that no one was…...

53+ min ago (1209+ words) Ukraine enters the final phase of restructuring its $3.2 billion GDP-linked warrants after presenting its final proposal to investors, who must now vote amid tensions with holdout funds. Ukraine has entered the final stage of restructuring its $3.2 billion GDP-linked warrants after presenting what officials describe as the government's final proposal to investors following the third round of closed negotiations with the ad hoc committee of major holders. The Finance Ministry published the final offer to GDP warrant holders on Dec. 1, saying the structure reflects substantial progress achieved with the committee between Nov. 25 and Nov. 30, and contains all elements needed to complete the restructuring by year-end. However, a group of investors including Aurelius Capital Management LP and VR Capital Group is pressing for stronger protections, including clauses that would shield the new securities from any future restructuring. The group said consensus has…...

2+ hour, 16+ min ago (1288+ words) Open, professional discussion of Islam's political dimension by Muslim scholars demands a culture of free speech " not as "Western fashion," but as responsibility before God and people. For a Ukrainian reader living in wartime, a lecture at Yale on Islam's Golden Age may at first glance seem far removed from the reality of the front. In 2023, Starr published an analytical paper, "US Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes" (Silk Road Paper), in which he explicitly proposed turning the C5+1 format into C6+1 by adding Azerbaijan to the five Central Asian states as the western "anchor" of the East-West corridor and the linking element between Central Asia and the South Caucasus. His lecture is not only about the distant Abbasid past; it is also about the mental maps political elites in Washington use when dealing with today's Eurasia. Most of the…...

2+ hour, 23+ min ago (528+ words) Review of a film that tells it as it really is. The question, terrifying precisely because of its simplicity, comes from a young Ukrainian soldier answering his commander's weary request for a smile at the end of a brutal day. It lands like a hammer blow in the final moments of Mstyslav Chernov's 2000 Meters to Andriivka. The film's narrative carries faint echoes of Saving Private Ryan: It is a war travelogue. A small group of journalists and the Ukrainian army platoon must enter a village near Bakhmut, razed to its "ground zero," and capture the moment when a fighter from the 3rd Assault Brigade raises the Ukrainian flag. To get there, they must first reach an assault team battling on the village outskirts, then advance with them into the ruins. The only possible path is a 2-kilometer stretch of shredded treeline,…...

2+ hour, 53+ min ago (171+ words) Kyiv Post Delivers Exclusive and In-Depth News and Opinions on Politics, Economics " Get Your Daily News Brief Direct from Ukraine Today! Balloons Released from Belarus Force Brief Closure of Lithuania's Main Airport Lithuania briefly shut Vilnius airport again after suspected Belarus-sent balloons breached its airspace. Lithuania's Vilnius airport resumed operations after balloons had forced it to close its airspace earlier, it said on Saturday, the latest in a series of interruptions of the Baltic nation's air traffic in recent months. Air traffic restarted at 1731 GMT, the airport said. JOIN US ON TELEGRAM Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. The airport, located some 30 km from Belarus, has been closed more than 10 times since early October over similar incidents, and was last closed on December3. Lithuania says balloons are sent by smugglers transporting cigarettes from Belarus, but also blames Belarusian President…...

5+ hour, 25+ min ago (223+ words) Russia hit the Pechenihy dam in Kharkiv region, stopping all traffic while officials assess the damage and warn residents to stay away from the area. Russian forces struck the Pechenihy Reservoir dam in Ukraine's Kharkiv region on Sunday, prompting authorities to halt all traffic across the structure as emergency teams assess the damage, local officials said. Oleksandr Husarov, head of the Pechenihy settlement, announced in a Telegram statement that as of 12:00 on Dec. 7, traffic on the roadway atop the dam had been "completely suspended" following the attack. "We urge everyone to remain cautious and refrain from traveling toward the dam," Husarov said, adding that engineers and emergency services are currently evaluating the extent of the damage and working to address the consequences. The Pechenihy Reservoir is one of the region's key hydro-engineering sites. It spans 86.2 square kilometers (33.3 sq. miles), stretches…...

5+ hour, 38+ min ago (998+ words) Longtime Russia strategist Glen Howard says strikes on Novorossiysk's offshore terminals could force the Kremlin into costly choices over its shadow fleet. WASHINGTON, DC " Ukraine's recent Sea Baby drone strike didn't just torch two shadow-fleet tankers in the Black Sea. According to seasoned Russia strategist Glen Howard, it signals a shift: Kyiv is no longer simply degrading Russia's navy " it's targeting the financial infrastructure sustaining Moscow's war effort. In an analysis for the Saratoga Foundation, Glen Howard, the foundation's president, argues last week's USV attack provides the clearest evidence yet that Kyiv has shifted its maritime campaign from striking Russian warships to directly targeting Moscow's economic lifelines. Those lifelines converge at Novorossiysk, Russia's crucial Black Sea oil hub and the beating heart of the Kremlin's sanctions-evading shadow fleet. In an interview with the Kyiv Post, Howard argued that Ukraine has…...

5+ hour, 44+ min ago (327+ words) Deputy Secretary of State Landau renews Trump's attack on the EU's "undemocratic bureaucracy.' The EU is pursuing an agenda "utterly adverse to the US" and pursuing "civilizational suicide," the American Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said on Saturday, doubling down on the Trump administration's harsh criticism of Europe in its "National Security Strategy." In the document, released on Thursday, Washington said Europe faced a "stark prospect of civilizational erasure," due to the EU's undermining "political liberty and sovereignty," leading to a "loss of national identity." The top diplomat Kaja Kallas was the only EU leader to reply to the new US Security Strategy. The US "is still our biggest ally," she said on Saturday at the annual conference of the Doha Forum. "Of course, there's a lot of criticism, but I think some of it is also true," she…...

6+ hour, 42+ min ago (174+ words) Kyiv Post Delivers Exclusive and In-Depth News and Opinions on Politics, Economics " Get Your Daily News Brief Direct from Ukraine Today! British Defence Intelligence Update Ukraine 6 December 2025 Latest from the British Defence Intelligence. - Russia is continuing its concerted deep strike campaign against Ukrainian energy critical national infrastructure (CNI), almost certainly seeking to cause a humanitarian crisis amongst Ukraine's civilian population over winter. - In November 2025, Russia launched approximately 5,400 one way attack uncrewed aerial systems (OWA UAS) against Ukrainian CNI targets, as well as more than 90 missiles from Long Range Aviation aircraft. Russia has launched over 5,000 OWA UAS in each of the past three months, with the objective of saturating Ukraine's air defence. - Daily reliance on large numbers of cheap, mass-produced UAS, both armed and decoy, is indicative of Russia's attritional approach to the conflict, and affords Ukraine minimal respite. Launch rates…...

6+ hour, 49+ min ago (305+ words) A youth drone championship in Kyiv reveals a generation gaining confidence and control through the skill of flight. These thirty-one young pilots flew the way soldiers fight. Smooth control. Zero hesitation. Absolute focus. Some of them were barely tall enough to see over the tables, yet their hands moved with the repetition of those who understand that mastery is earned, not granted. A 13-year-old finalist from Zhytomyr, described the experience simply. When he flies, the world narrows to the drone and the path ahead. His ambition is already bigger than the competition. He wants to build his own drones. He wants to rise to the top. Technology is no longer something distant to them. It is already theirs. Ievgen Vladimirov, Head of the National Cybersecurity Challenges Committee of the Federation of Technological Sports of Ukraine, captured that truth. When a…...