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Terykon

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. 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…

  2. 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…

  3. Why We Write russia in Lowercase

    · 7:22

    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…

  4. 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…

  5. 4,000 russians Risk Being Cut Off at Lyman: How Ukraine Collapsed the Salient While Fedorov Declared Defeat

    · 14 min

    Bottom Line: Ukraine’s counteroffensive is dismantling the russian salient north of Lyman, where Ukrainian forces retook positions between Nove and Katerynivka, the pro-kremlin platform Rybar admitted the setback on…

  6. London Goes First: Britain Keeps Breaking the West’s Taboos on Ukraine

    · 13 min

    Bottom Line: On August 24, 2026, Ukraine’s Independence Day, Britain allowed MBDA to share classified SCALP component data for Ukrainian assembly lines, while Washington declined to sign a UN appeal urging russia to…

  7. Groups I–IV on Lisiy Island: 558 Tons of Steel for a Pathogen Complex moscow Rebuilt Behind a Nature Reserve

    · 21 min

    Bottom Line: On 21 August Ukraine’s military intelligence presented a laboratory complex on Lisiy Island, in Tver’ oblast’, as an FMBA pathogen facility serving the russian Armed Forces. Supplier records confirm a 2022…

  8. The Rear That Must Hold: Thirty-Five Years of Reaffirmed Independence

    · 18 min

    Bottom Line: Writing from Ivano-Frankivsk oblast’ on the eve of August 24, 2026, the piece frames the day as the thirty-fifth anniversary of the reaffirmation of a sovereignty first proclaimed on January 22, 1918. It…

  9. Finding Petliura: How Germany and the US Are Trying to Save russia, according to Taras Zahorodniy

    · 15 min · Explicit

    Bottom Line: As Ukraine’s deep strikes pushed russia into a nationwide fuel crisis, political shocks ran through Ukraine’s donor-funded anti-corruption institutions, among them a NABU letter of 24 June seeking data on…

  10. Friendly Fire — Part III: The Map

    · 8:40

    Bottom Line: A NABU letter of June 24, made public by Buzhansky, sought the personal data, ranks and duties of SBU counterintelligence personnel. Analyst Zahorodniy ties such moves to intensified strikes on russia,…

  11. Friendly Fire II: Seconded

    · 8:11

    Bottom Line: NABU’s June 24 request for the names, ranks and cover postings of SBU counterintelligence officers, sent as “Alpha” operators struck targets in Crimea, has been read as reconnaissance by three independent…

  12. Five Million Frames: In the Algorithm War, Europe Risks Repeating Its Ballistic Mistake

    · 17 min

    Bottom Line: Ukraine’s Defense Forces employ more than seventy AI and computer-vision systems, with over two hundred companies producing AI-equipped drones and Avengers Labs holding five million annotated battlefield…

  13. Performative Justice: How NABU and SAPO Turned an Investigation Into a YouTube Series

    · 12 min

    Bottom Line: Released by NABU and SAPO on August 20, the twenty-two-minute «Femida» video used the grammar of a YouTube documentary, with branded titles, a detective as anchor, edited intercepts and a simulated…

  14. Mutual Infiltration Moves Indoors: The Timing Is the Message in Kyiv’s War of Institutions

    · 14 min

    Bottom Line: On August 18 and 19, 2026, Mykhailo Fedorov delivered a national address denouncing a crisis of governing capacity, and hours later NABU and SAPO launched operation ‘Forrest Gump’, alleging laundered money…

  15. Etorofu: By Provoking Japan, russia Is Accelerating Its Own Isolation

    · 35 min

    Bottom Line: In August, russia held live-fire drills near the disputed islands north of Japan, putin threatened retaliation over Western detentions of shadow-fleet tankers, and on August 13 he visited Etorofu for the…

  16. putin Cited Kosovo to Take Crimea: Why Kyiv’s Non-Recognition Bought It Nothing

    · 22 min

    Bottom Line: Volodymyr Zelensky reaffirmed in Belgrade on 8 August 2026 Ukraine’s non-recognition of Kosovo, which Aleksandar Vučić treats as a barter for Serbia’s non-recognition of Crimea. Yet putin invoked the…

  17. Sarajevo Read russia First: What Bosnia’s Veterans Recognize in the War on Ukraine

    · 21 min

    Bottom Line: In Ostrožac, Bosnian war veterans recognized in russia’s aggression a familiar sequence: denying a nation’s existence, claiming territory in history’s name, disguising international war as civil conflict,…

  18. 26 Minutes Over Kramatorsk: How russia Bombs Through Europe’s Summer Recess

    · 14 min

    Bottom Line: In twenty-six minutes on the evening of August 13, russian guided bombs struck Kramatorsk and Bilenke, killing one and wounding 22; within hours, strikes also hit a Balakliia kindergarten, Kharkiv, Kherson…

  19. Golden Leo: How One Sunken Freighter Explains russia’s War on the World’s Food

    · 25 min

    Bottom Line: On July 19 off Odesa, russian missiles struck the Golden Leo, a freighter carrying Ukrainian corn, killing nine foreign sailors and a Ukrainian pilot; it later sank. The strike capped a summer campaign…

  20. The Patriot Trap: Ukraine Is Repeating Its Costliest Ballistic Mistake

    · 31 min

    Bottom Line: Seen from Zhytomyr in August 2026, Ukraine, once the core of Soviet ballistic design, wasted years without rebuilding its own missiles and interceptors while russia and North Korea refined theirs. Kyiv now…

  21. 42,700 Losses in a Single Month, and russia Has No Reason to Stop This War

    · 10 min

    Bottom Line: In July russian forces lost a record 42,700 dead and badly wounded, yet on August 11 moscow struck Zaporizhzhia with North Korean ballistic missiles and drones hit Sloviansk’s central market. The kremlin…

  22. russia Is Building a Ukrainian Brigade. The Question Is Why It Needs One

    · 26 min

    Bottom Line: On August 6 russia’s Volunteer Corps announced a Ukrainian Volunteer Special Forces Brigade merging five units reportedly including Ukrainian prisoners of war, though its strength is unverified. Amid…

  23. The War on Winter Began in August: the First russian Winter Without Free Diesel Is Already Underway

    · 25 min

    Bottom Line: Writing from Kharkiv as russian strikes in August damaged energy facilities in the Odesa region, the analysis argues that russia faces its first winter without free diesel. Ukrainian strikes on refineries…

  24. The Fractal Front: From Kherson to Yekaterinburg, the War That Erased the Rear

    · 13 min

    Bottom Line: Driving from Dnipro to Zaporizhzhia and south, the reporters found wrecked gas stations, roads covered by anti-drone nets and towns like Nikopol’, Marhanets’ and Synelnykove where russian FPVs hunt…

  25. The Only Sanctions russia Cannot Evade · How Ukraine Enforces What the West Announces

    · 15 min

    Bottom Line: Writing from Kharkiv in August 2026, the analysis contrasts Ukraine’s deep-strike campaign, including a naval drone attack on Yalta and 102 targets hit in 48 hours, with Western sanctions. While the US…

  26. Marsupial Drones Over the Donbas, Among the Civilians Killed in Cold Blood by the russians

    · 18 min

    Bottom Line: In Kramatorsk and Druzhkivka in early August 2026, russian glide bombs and FPV drones were making a long-resilient city uninhabitable, forcing the mandatory evacuation of 525 children, while a civilian…

  27. The Co-Belligerent Nobody Names: Inside Pyongyang’s War In Europe

    · 19 min

    Bottom Line: Reporting from Kirovohrad oblast’ in August 2026, the analysis details North Korea’s role in russia’s war: millions of munitions, over half of russia’s artillery shells by Western estimates, KN-23 and…

  28. Widows in Black, Widows in Fact: When Every Corpse Is a Check to Be Signed, the kremlin Prefers Its Dead Missing

    · 13 min

    Bottom Line: After CNN’s August 5 investigation into russia’s “black widows,” who marry soldiers to collect death packages of around 11 million rubles, the phenomenon is traced from Zaporizhzhia through serial sham…

  29. Forty Days That Repriced a War: Inside Ukraine’s ‘Long-Range Sanctions’

    · 22 min

    Bottom Line: The forty-day SBU campaign approved by Zelensky on June 25 and closed on August 4 claimed over one hundred strikes inside russia and occupied areas, hitting refineries, airfields, air-defense radars, ships…

  30. A Yardstick Over the Volga: Taking the Measure of russia’s Lost Depth

    · 15 min

    Bottom Line: On July 7, after resuming regular flights from June 23, russia scrambled four A-50U radar aircraft at once, nearly its entire operational fleet, in orbits over Ulyanovsk, Samara and Bashkortostan to shield…

  31. The Targets Are Civilians

    · 8:56

    Bottom Line: In Kapitanivka, near Kyiv, twenty-year-old Mark was wounded by shrapnel from a russian missile strike, refused to burden rescuers, and died in hospital on July 28 from complications. In Kryvyi Rih and…

  32. The Belarus Lesson: From Hrodna to Ceuta, Weaponized Migration Has One Trigger. And the Fingerprints Now Reach Washington

    · 14 min

    Bottom Line: On July 30 tens of thousands of Moroccan migrants overran Spain’s enclave of Ceuta, leaving dozens dead, while European partners moved to isolate Madrid. Reading the crisis through Belarus’s 2021 operation…

  33. Anatomy of a Campaign for a Minister With No Names: Interviews Without Answers, Synchronized Squares, and Doubts Being Seeded Against Those Who Are Bending russia

    · 11 min

    Bottom Line: Mykhailo Fedorov, defense minister until July 15, named no corrupt officials and described no conscription mechanism in his July 29 interview with Ukrainska Pravda. DeepState, meanwhile, framed, convened,…

  34. The Camp David Dividend: For the Same Damage, a Ballistic Strike Now Costs moscow Less Than Drones

    · 18 min

    Bottom Line: On the night between July 31 and August 1, russia fired 35 missiles and 185 drones at Ukraine; only one of 27 ballistic missiles was shot down, and nine died in Kyiv. While moscow needs eight and a half…

  35. In Balakliia The russian Terror Has Only Changed Altitude

    · 7:40

    Bottom Line: In largely deserted Balakliia, Kharkiv oblast’, russian terror that came by land before the city’s liberation in September 2022 now comes from above: reconnaissance drones guide glide bombs that destroyed…

  36. russian FPV Drones Now Reach the Administrative Borders of Donetsk oblast’, Rendering Unlivable What russia Struggles to Conquer

    · 8:48

    Bottom Line: In Oleksandrivka, at the administrative borders of Donetsk oblast’, a russian FPV drone with no trace of fiber-optic cable destroyed a kiosk on the night before July 31, 2026, causing no victims but…

  37. A Funeral for Maneuver Warfare, Held in the Sunflower Fields of Donetsk

    · 11 min

    Bottom Line: On the Dobropillia axis, russian forces launched a rare mechanized assault that ended with all nine tanks, two armored fighting vehicles and three Grad launchers destroyed by Ukrainian FPV drones. The…

  38. Unjammable, Until Now: Kharkiv’s Homemade Trap for russia’s Fiber-Optic Drones is a Wire That Cuts the Wire

    · 6:45

    Bottom Line: In Kharkiv, where fiber-optic FPV drones immune to electronic warfare now account for nearly all those flying in from the russian border, volunteers have built a cheap trap: a taut steel cable that snags…

  39. Kharkiv’s Mournful Lament Falls on Deaf Western Ears

    · 11 min

    Bottom Line: In Kharkiv, russian FPV drones, glide bombs and daytime ballistic missiles kept striking civilians, gas stations and homes even as russian forces were pushed back from positions at Vovchansk and Lyptsi,…

  40. War by Emptying: Selective Death Reaches Poltava

    · 11 min

    Bottom Line: On the road through Poltava and Kharkiv oblasts, nearly every gas station was destroyed or closed, part of a russian drone campaign that has hit some two hundred stations since late spring, alongste glide…

  41. The Poor Man’s Starlink: How russia Assembled a Flying Radio Backbone Licensed in Shenzhen

    · 11 min

    Bottom Line: A single Chinese mesh modem, the XK-F358 by Xingkai Tech, has spread across russian strike drones over a year, from the Gerbera to the Shahed and Molniya, and on July 23 Molniyas were first flown through a…

  42. The Desperation Lullaby: Casting putin as Desperate Is the Mistake That Arms Him

    · 11 min

    Bottom Line: On July 24, russian Iskander-Ms struck a drone-industry demo day at a civilian sports complex in Kapitanivka, killing some ten people, while glide bombs hit Izium and Sloviansk. Tracing a pattern from…

  43. By Fall, Ukrainian Air Defense Will Begin Firing Light: How the Combat Lasers Kyiv Promises to Field by Fall Actually Work

    · 13 min

    Bottom Line: At a briefing in Kyiv, Brigadier General Andrii Lebedenko said Ukraine would field laser air-defense systems within two to three months, building on platforms such as Celebra Tech’s Tryzub already used…

  44. Promoting the Authors of Success: Depth Gets a Ministry, Command a Conscience

    · 7:11

    Bottom Line: Between July 14 and 21, after the Rada voted Svyrydenko’s government out, Fedorov left the Defense Ministry and protests spread to 16 cities, Zelensky installed Khmara, the SBU special operations…

  45. russians Are Digging In at Crimea’s Gates: They Know the Peninsula Is Lost

    · 16 min

    Bottom Line: In July 2026, contacts in occupied southern Ukraine reported russian forces fortifying Crimea’s land gates, from Pershokostyantynivka and Stavky facing Perekop to Salkove on the Chonhar axis and Henichesk,…

  46. The Crater and the Silence: The Bombs Burying Children in Ukraine Now Fly 200 Kilometers, and Europe Is Still Paying for the Fuel

    · 11 min

    Bottom Line: In July 2026, russian guided aerial bombs repeatedly struck Zaporizhzhia, Sumy and Pavlohrad, killing children aged eleven, five and thirteen and wounding a one-year-old girl. Glide kits and new UMPB…

  47. Pecunia Non Olet: Cubic Meters of russian Terror Flow to Europe, Ukraine Pays in Blood

    · 11 min

    Bottom Line: In July 2026 russia struck Kyiv overnight with 41 missiles, 25 ballistic, and 125 drones, hitting again the Lukianivka market and metro entrance devastated in May and igniting warehouses in Vyshneve and…

  48. Fallen On A Terykon: «I Was The One Who Pulled The Trigger Of War»

    · 14 min

    Bottom Line: On July 17, 2014, a Buk launcher of the russian 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade from Kursk shot down flight MH17 over Hrabove, killing 298 people, a finding confirmed by Dutch investigators, The Hague…

  49. Who’s Afraid of Khmara

    · 13 min

    Bottom Line: On July 16 Zelensky named SBU chief Yevhenii Khmara, former commander of the Alpha unit, acting defense minister amid the Service’s 40-day deep-strike campaign against russia. The appointment means…

  50. The Perception Front

    · 11 min

    Bottom Line: In Kyiv, Mykhailo Fedorov’s July 15 removal from the Defense Ministry threatens the shift in partners’ perception his six months had helped produce, from expected defeat to a winning Ukraine. That trust is…

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