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Terykon

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From the slag heaps of war, a clear view of Ukraine. Independent Ukraine-based analysis by Giorgio Provinciali and Alla Perdei, read by an AI-generated voice.

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  1. From 40 to Over 100 km²: In Luhansk, the Territory Controlled by Ukrainian Forces Has More Than Doubled

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    From 40 to Over 100 km²: In Luhansk, the Territory Controlled by Ukrainian Forces Has More Than Doubled By Giorgio Provinciali and Alla Perdei · 25 October 2026 · terykon.com Narrated by an AI-generated voice. Text by…

  2. Italy’s Mattei Plan Undercuts russia’s Cannon Fodder Pipeline from Africa

    · 11 min

    Bottom Line: russia draws fighters from Africa through fake job offers and trafficking networks, with Journalists for Justice counting at least 3,066 recruits from 40 countries. Italy’s Mattei Plan, investing in…

  3. The Burning Squares of a Sick Europe

    · 11 min

    Bottom Line: A wave of violent street revolt over housing, schools, fuel prices, wars and civil liberties has spread from France, Spain, Belgium and Germany into Italy, fuelling Le Pen, the AfD and snap elections in…

  4. The Reasons of Peoples

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    Bottom Line: More than eighty years after the Second World War, armed conflicts from the russian invasion of Ukraine to Gaza, Sudan, Myanmar and the 2026 war in Iran fall above all on civilians, while the closure of…

  5. Those Who Stay Home Vote Anyway. And Ukraine will pay for every empty seat.

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    Bottom Line: On October 18, the deadline for the Graham Act sanctions against russia that Donald Trump suspended two days earlier, a dispatch from Pavlohrad urges American nonvoters to vote on November 3. Citing the 89…

  6. The 100-Day Trap: How Trading Refinery Strikes for Starlink Would Light Up russia’s Rear

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    Bottom Line: Republican senators Roger Wicker and Kevin Cramer proposed to Zelensky a hundred-day halt to Ukrainian strikes on russian refineries in exchange for extending Starlink access about 300 kilometers into…

  7. Kursk Lesson Comes Knocking on Europe’s Door

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    Bottom Line: On the night of October 14, russia fired 39 ballistic missiles, only four of them intercepted, and over 120 drones at Ukraine’s energy system, hitting all three Kyiv thermal power plants and leaving at…

  8. ‘Bad Weather’ in Kyiv: From ‘No Cards’ to ‘Don’t Play Your Cards’

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    Bottom Line: After two days in which Ukraine spared russian energy facilities, a russian ballistic missile hit Kyiv’s CHPP-4 and a residential building with no early warning, which the United States blamed on bad…

  9. Trump Would Have Preferred Refineries

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    Bottom Line: Over four days in October, Ukrainian strikes hit three Yandex data centers in Vladimir, Kaluga and Sasovo, shutting two down, forcing Yandex Cloud into emergency mode and cutting automated traffic from its…

  10. 46,230 russian Losses in September: Trump and putin in Zugzwang

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    Bottom Line: russian forces suffered 46,230 casualties in September, bringing the summer total to 170,400, while bulletins from the first ten days of October point to rising attrition that recruitment of 1,000–1,200…

  11. Trump’s Deal: Ukrainian Blood Will Flow at America’s Pumps

    · 11 min

    Bottom Line: On October 9, as russian strikes killed dozens of civilians in Pryluky, Kramatorsk and Kyiv, the U.S. Treasury authorized previously prohibited russian diesel transactions through April 7, 2027, with Trump…

  12. Plague in Irkutsk, Steel on Lisiy: The Biological Labs moscow Hides Behind Nature Reserves

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    Bottom Line: A suspected pneumonic plague leak in Irkutsk, where a researcher died after reportedly breaking a test tube and nearly 200 contacts were hospitalized, prompted a U.S. Embassy alert urging Americans to…

  13. russia’s War on Kyiv’s Lifelines Clashes With a Defiant Capital: 72% Determined to Resist

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    Bottom Line: Between October 1 and 4, russian strikes repeatedly hit Kyiv’s Pivdennyi and Pivnichnyi bridges over the Dnipro, injuring people and suspending metro and road traffic, while the city cut preventive…

  14. Sovereignty Runs Through Orbit: Ukraine Prepares Its Own Satellite Network, russia Builds Rassvet

    · 13 min

    Bottom Line: On October 4, Zelensky confirmed that Ukraine is working on a satellite system «similar to Starlink», plausibly linked to the UASAT venture of GomSpace and STETMAN, while russia launched thirty-two Rassvet…

  15. Every Time It Loses at the Front, russia Knocks at the Ballot Box. With a Gun to the Head

    · 38 min

    Bottom Line: Writing from Oleksandrivka in Donetsk oblast’ as russia suffered record losses and Ukraine retook territory, the analysis traces how calls for wartime Ukrainian elections, voiced by kremlin officials,…

  16. Staying in Hell Rather Than Facing the Crossing Again. Dobropillia Holds

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    Bottom Line: From Bilozerske on the Donbas front, soldiers reach Dobropillia only on foot under drone escort, and some refuse to head back so they do not face the deadly crossing again, prolonging their time in hell.…

  17. To Those Beside Us in the Mud and Blood

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    Bottom Line: On the day Ukraine celebrates its defenders, a message from Zoloti Prudy in the Donbas thanks the soldiers, doctors, volunteers and civilians met along the front and recalls medals received at the…

  18. 120,000 Troops Against Us: Dobropillia, The Price Of Resistance

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    Bottom Line: Overnight, russian drones and KAB glide bombs hit villages along the anti-drone corridor leading to Dobropillia and the cities of Kramatorsk, Sloviansk and Druzhkivka, a day after a drone killed a…

  19. Ukraine Enters Winter With Its Rivers at Record Lows

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    Bottom Line: At the end of September 2026, rivers in western Ukraine, the Dnister among them, stood near or below observed minimums after a summer with 50–60% of normal rainfall, while inflows to the Dnipro cascade ran…

  20. Kyiv’s Data Centers Under Fire: What It Costs to Disconnect a Country

    · 14 min

    Bottom Line: Between September 23 and 26, russian strikes on Kyiv data centers and operators, including Pavutyna, UTELS, MiroHost and Datagroup, disrupted internet access, broadcasters and digital services, and…

  21. After the Anti-Corruption Noir: What Remains of NABU and SAPO’s Charges

    · 20 min

    Bottom Line: After Ukraine’s Supreme Court upheld in September 2026 the acquittal of judge Tetiana Denysiuk, sixteen positions from nine high-profile NABU and SAPO cases are traced from charge to latest decision. Eight…

  22. 20 Months of Trump, 20 Cases. And The Dossier Stays Open

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    Bottom Line: Twenty months into Donald Trump’s second term, as of September 25, 2026, a register compiled from Zaporizhzhia lists twenty cases of missed promises, measures ruled unlawful and open disputes, from the…

  23. The Price of Unanimity: How Europe Made Its Sanctions Negotiable on September 22

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    Bottom Line: On September 22 the EU renewed individual sanctions on roughly three thousand russian persons and entities for thirty-six months, but removed Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman as the price of unanimity,…

  24. Over 450 km² Without Spending the Infantry: Ukraine’s Largest Counteroffensive Since 2022, Explained From the Field

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    Bottom Line: In September, through Operation “Vivaldi”, Ukrainian forces advanced around Hrekivka–Makiivka, Zapadne and north of Lyman, reducing the russian bridgehead on the Oskil that anchored the pincer on Kupiansk.…

  25. Two Cars Out for Every One In: Crimea’s Last Bridge Runs Outward (and Some Countries Debate Beach Holidays There)

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    Bottom Line: A story circulating in Italy that Belarus pays for its citizens’ Crimean holidays is a hoax, contradicted by russian and Belarusian sources. Since June the peninsula has been reachable only over the Kerch…

  26. Hostages of the Occupation: How moscow Converts Ukrainian Civilians into Soldiers to Buy Back

    · 21 min

    Bottom Line: From the former russian gulag in Yahidne, Chernihiv oblast’, russia’s seizure of Ukrainian civilians, held without status or charge and traded for russian soldiers, emerges as a state method, from…

  27. Trump Blames the Wrong War for the Diesel Crisis, but the Numbers Say Otherwise

    · 11 min

    Bottom Line: In September 2026 Donald Trump again pressed Kyiv to halt strikes on russian refineries, blaming them for rising global diesel prices, but IEA and EIA data contradict him. Brent jumped 65.5% after the…

  28. NABU, SAPO, and the Reflex of Untouchability

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    Bottom Line: On September 14, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko accused NABU and SAPO of obstructing proceedings against their own leaders, releasing a video alleging that NABU director Semen Kryvonos…

  29. 972 km² Liberated, 5,300 Invented: Vivaldi’s Second Season Wipes Out putin’s Electoral Map From Lyman to Luhansk

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    Bottom Line: On September 20, 2026, the 3rd Army Corps reported that the second phase of “Vivaldi” liberated Shandryholove and Derylove, secured Drobysheve and forced the “Rubikon” drone unit out of the Lyman–Borova…

  30. Greenland Is putin’s Dream Precedent for Ukraine

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    Bottom Line: The announced U.S.–Denmark–Greenland Arctic security agreement, pending signature and ratification, is read from Zhytomyr as a dangerous precedent for Ukraine, because Trump described it as giving…

  31. Ukraine’s Armed Forces Enter Luhansk

    · 11 min

    Bottom Line: By September 18, 2026, Ukrainian forces north of Lyman had liberated Hrekivka and pushed across the Zherebets into Luhansk oblast’, as Operation “Vivaldi” destroyed the northern arm of the russian maneuver…

  32. Trapped in the Hell of Oleshky, the Deepest Circle of the Occupation

    · 10 min

    Bottom Line: In Oleshky, on the occupied left bank of the Dnipro, three to four thousand of some 24,000 pre-invasion residents survive without electricity, gas or food deliveries since May 26, some eating grass,…

  33. Don’t Let russia’s Occupation of Ukraine Be Called Peace

    · 17 min

    Bottom Line: At a Ukrinform conference in Kyiv on September 14, russia’s duma ‘elections’ in eleven districts carved out of occupied Ukrainian territory were framed against the 1944–1951 deportations of Ukrainians,…

  34. More Men, Less Ground. 1,200 In, 1,500 Out Every Day: The Two Curves Breaking russia’s War Machine, Unless Ukraine’s Rear Breaks First

    · 15 min

    Bottom Line: From the kill zones of Kherson and Mykolaiv, russia’s estimated 1,000–1,200 daily recruits are set against 1,400–1,500 daily losses, while August’s 42,020 reported casualties bought 90.35 square kilometers…

  35. Bombs and Bikinis: How the ‘russkiy mir’ Is Not Winning at All in Odesa

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    Bottom Line: In Odesa, where tourists still filled Arcadia’s beaches, russia struck the civilian tugboat Tedy overnight, killing two Azerbaijani crew members, while recent attacks had hit an apartment building and the…

  36. 1,500,870 russians Out of Action: moscow Has Lost More Men In Ukraine Than In All Its Wars Since 1945 Combined

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    Bottom Line: Ukraine’s General Staff put russian dead and seriously wounded at 1,500,870 on September 9, after over 42,000 in August and 11,230 in September’s first ten days, so that the summer alone cost more than all…

  37. Cold, Hunger, and Medicine: russia’s Winter Campaign Against Ukraine Is Already a Month Old

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    Bottom Line: By early September, russia’s winter campaign had been under way for a month: Mykolaiv and Kherson lost power, a ballistic strike destroyed a Kyiv supermarket, and on September 3 strikes hit the warehouses…

  38. The Carthage Safe Holds More Doubts Than Cash

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    Bottom Line: In a September 6 Facebook post, attorney Vitalii Serdiuk contested the viral NABU/SAPO photograph of a cash-filled safe used to illustrate Operation «Carthage», saying it came from a separate land…

  39. Ukrainian Civilians Used As Blood Bags

    · 11 min

    Bottom Line: In Trostianets’, Sumy oblast’, occupied by russian troops from 24 February to 26 March 2022, survivors described killings, rape, confinement at home and torture rooms at the railway station, where…

  40. Europe Earmarks €28,000 for Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Noir: Episodes for the Internal Front in an Existential War

    · 13 min

    Bottom Line: NABU and SAPO’s 58-second teaser for «Operation Carthage», targeting an alleged criminal organization led by a Prosecutor General’s Office official, used crime-series noir and YouTube graphics but offered…

  41. Back to School Without Books: russia’s War Turns 12 Million Ukrainian Books to Ashes

    · 9:56 · Explicit

    Bottom Line: As Ukraine’s fifth wartime school year opened in hybrid mode under constant air-raid alerts, russian strikes had destroyed some 12 million books, roughly a third of this year’s national output, hitting the…

  42. Another 42,000 Men in August to Fall Back: russian Recruitment No Longer Replaces What the Front Consumes

    · 7:24

    Bottom Line: In August 2026 russian forces suffered 42,020 casualties, yet ISW confirmed only 90.35 square kilometers seized against at least 129.81 liberated by Ukraine, roughly 465 casualties per square kilometer,…

  43. Buried Precedent: How Ukraine’s Services Came to Shoot at Each Other

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    Bottom Line: On September 2, SBU and HUR personnel used weapons against one another in a Kyiv courtyard, wounding three HUR servicemen, amid conflicting accounts of the detention of Stepan Kaplunov, deputy commander of…

  44. State Honors for a Genocide: How russia and Serbia Rewrite Ratko Mladić

    · 20 min

    Bottom Line: After Ratko Mladić died in UN custody in The Hague on August 27, 2026, the russian Foreign Ministry called the judgments against him “cannibalistic” and alleged anti-Serbian bias “whatever the factual…

  45. The New Dekulakization: How putin Is Confiscating russia to Pay for a War That Costs a Billion Dollars a Day

    · 15 min

    Bottom Line: Facing a war bill estimated at over $900 million a day and a 5.73-trillion-ruble deficit in the first half of 2026, putin’s regime is confiscating private property through forced ‘voluntary contributions’,…

  46. Thirty Seconds to Get Out: How russia Turned Ukraine’s Shopping Malls Into Targets

    · 15 min

    Bottom Line: Through August, russian strikes hit Ukraine’s retail logistics: Fora, Comfy and Roshen depots on August 27, an Epicentr hypermarket in Kharkiv where a camera-equipped Geran’-4 killed a customer, and a…

  47. Fedorov’s Italian Job: The Man Who Signed Ukraine’s Secrets Now Advises Rome

    · 18 min

    Bottom Line: Mykhailo Fedorov, removed as Ukraine’s Defense minister, agreed in August 2026 to advise Italy’s Guido Crosetto pro bono on defense innovation, after refusing four offers from Zelensky. He has not answered…

  48. Ukraine Humanitarian Demining: Enabling Ukraine’s Green Economic Renaissance

    · 22 min

    Bottom Line: Villages in Mykolaiv oblast’ such as Vavylovo, on the edge of the Kherson kill zone, are surrounded by mines laid in successive waves, while russian drones drop PFM-1 mines, booby-trapped objects and…

  49. Why We Write russia in Lowercase

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    Bottom Line: After nearly thirteen years of war and atrocities witnessed from Bucha and Izium to Yahidne and Trostianets’, russia, moscow and related forms are written in lowercase as a deliberate Ukrainian editorial…

  50. Sixty Wagons Behind the Fence: How Belarus Is Pre-Building russia’s Northern Front

    · 9:45

    Bottom Line: Belarus is building infrastructure oriented toward Ukraine before the force that would use it: near Yakimauka, in Homel’ oblast’, a 1,238-meter rail spur able to hold 60 wagons is being prepared at a new…

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