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Russian missiles cooking off in occupied Dovzhansk, Luhansk Oblast

Ukrainian forces struck what appears to be a Russian warehouse of surface-to-air missiles, causing a fire and spectacular detonations.

The attack is part of an ongoing Ukrainian campaign against Russian air defenses: drones regularly strike Russian air defense systems across the occupied territories, also targeting ammunition warehouses and military bases.

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Horrific increase in sentence for a video of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet against Crimean Tatar political prisoner
https://khpg.org/en/1608815601

43% of Russian POWs rated Ukrainians as less than fully human. Among heavy believers in Kremlin propaganda, that figure rose to 54%.

LingvaLexa surveyed 1,060 captured servicemembers under Ukraine's Office of the Prosecutor General — the data may now support prosecuting Russia's propagandists for the crime of aggression.

🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/14/43-of-russian-pows-rated-ukrainians-as-less-than-fully-human-and-kremlin-propaganda-explains-why/

Seven months ago, Ukraine came to Washington with an offer to help defend from Iranian drones. Trump's people passed. Last week, they changed their mind. Gulf states are also lining up.

An American drone engineer fighting for Ukraine had one reaction. "LOL. AHAHAHA."

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/13/countries-turn-to-ukraine-for-help-as-iran-shows-up-their-outdated-air-defenses/

Sweden just boarded a sanctioned Russian shadow fleet tanker in the Baltic – the second in eight days near Trelleborg.

The Sea Owl I was flying a Comoros flag it may not actually be registered under, heading from Brazil to a Russian port with no cargo.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/13/sweden-boards-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker/

Russia couldn't push Urals crude past its $59 budget target for months. Then America bombed Iran and oil did the rest.

We scored every way the Iran war hits Ukraine. Two gains. Eight losses.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/13/the-iran-war-helps-ukraine-in-exactly-two-ways-it-hurts-in-eight/

We scored every way the Iran war hits Ukraine—military, economic, geopolitical.

Two gains. Eight losses. Diesel up 19% in 13 days, Patriot stocks draining, Russia past budget target.

The only bright spots: everyone suddenly wants Ukraine's drone interceptors. https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/13/the-iran-war-helps-ukraine-in-exactly-two-ways-it-hurts-in-eight/

The Strait of Hormuz is 39 kilometers wide. It didn't close.

And yet: Brent crude went from $71 to $99. Marine insurers fled. 150 tankers sat at anchor rather than risk transit. Ukraine's diesel jumped 21%—because Ukraine has no refineries left and every global oil shock hits the pump directly.

Oil is priced like insurance—and right now, the premium reflects a closure that exists mainly as a threat.

Iran threatened to close Hormuz. That was enough.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/13/oil-prices-fear-hormuz-ukraine/

Hungary gave back Ukraine's armored bank vehicles this week. Both came back damaged.

The $40 million, €35 million, and 9 kg of gold belonging to Ukrainian citizens and businesses remain in Budapest, with no legal explanation provided.

By returning the vehicles, Budapest basically admitted they belong to Ukraine, but still won't say why it's keeping the contents.

Zelenskyy called it banditry. Ukraine's central bank called it international blackmail.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/13/hungary-returns-oschadbank-vehicles-damaged-cash-gold-seized/

In 2022, Gazprom simply stopped paying Ukraine for the gas transit services it had contracted for. Naftogaz sued in Switzerland. Russia tried to block proceedings through its own courts—and failed.

Three and a half years later, Switzerland's Federal Supreme Court has dismissed Gazprom's last appeal. $1.4 billion. Legally final. Naftogaz is now pursuing forced collection across European jurisdictions.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/13/naftogaz-wins-1-4-billion-gazprom-case-enforcement/

Russia's estimated losses in Ukraine as of day 1479 of its all-out war, according to the Ukrainian Army's General Staff.

Russia cut mobile data in Moscow City, blacked out the State Duma's internet two days running, and is now preparing to throttle Telegram through VPNs

ISW: the Kremlin is accelerating censorship to get ahead of reserve call-ups and the Sep 2026 elections
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/13/russia-cuts-duma-internet-moves-to-block-telegram-through-vpns-ahead-of-2026-elections-isw-says/

Ukraine imports 85% of its fuel

The US-Israeli strike on Iran just made that a problem. Kyiv's response: army gets diesel first, farmers second, everyone else third. Reserves up to 100K tonnes
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/13/ukraine-prioritises-military-fuel-supply-amid-oil-crisis-sparked-by-us-israeli-operation-against-iran/

Britain will not ease sanctions on Russian oil, Energy Minister Michael Shanks says, breaking with the US which granted a temporary exemption amid rising Middle East tensions. "Sanctions are important."
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/13/britain-promises-not-to-ease-sanctions-against-russia-following-us/

US Treasury has issued a 30-day license permitting countries to buy Russian oil stranded at sea —~124 million barrels across 30 locations worldwide

The waiver covers oil loaded on or before 12 March; and follows the US-Israeli operation against Iran, which drove up global energy prices
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/13/us-eases-russia-oil-sanctions-for-30-days-to-stabilize-energy-markets/

"They don't like the EU" — Kallas

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says the US has made it "very clear" it wants to divide Europe — and warns member states not to cut side deals with Trump. "We are equal powers when we are together."
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/13/they-dont-like-the-eu-europes-top-diplomat-says-washington-wants-to-divide-europe/

Zelenskyy lands in Paris

The main item on the Macron agenda: €90 billion in EU credit frozen since February by a Hungarian veto over a Russian oil pipeline. Brussels says the money will flow "one way or another." Today they figure out how.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/13/zelenskyy-in-paris-e90-bn-eu-loan-shadow-fleet-and-the-coalition-of-the-willing-on-the-table/

Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service reports Russia plans to re-register~80 shadow fleet tankers under its own flag after increasing Western seizures

The vessels currently sail under flags of Seychelles, China, Azerbaijan & Samoa. Baltic region named as primary risk zone
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/13/russia-plans-to-re-register-80-shadow-fleet-tankers-under-its-own-flag-to-evade-western-sanctions-ukraine-intelligence-says/

Ukraine struck 105,200 Russian targets with drones in February

Russia's response: build a 101,000-strong drone force by 1 April and produce 19,000 FPV drones per day. Syrskyi calls drone buildup Ukraine's "number one task."
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/13/russia-rushes-to-101000-drone-troops-by-april-as-ukraine-hits-105200-targets-in-february/

First Women's March in Kyiv since Russia's full-scale invasion. Over 3,000 ppl.

3 demands:
-withdraw a draft civil code that bans divorce during pregnancy & lets courts judge women's "morality"
-protect servicewomen from harassment
-bring captive women home from Russia

75k women now serve in Ukraine's Army. The civil code rewriting their rights was drafted without asking any of them.

Iran fires Shaheds at the Gulf. UAE wants 5,000 Ukrainian interceptors. Qatar wants 2,000. Kuwait is next.

TAF Industries founder Yakovenko told the FT: "It's not enough to have something like a Patriot."

Training pilots — not supply — is the only thing slowing the deals down.
🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/08/the-uae-asked-for-5000-interceptors-qatar-for-2000-and-the-reason-every-gulf-state-is-calling-ukraine-is-the-same-patriot-isnt-enough/

€500,000 in under 60 seconds — that's how fast Latvians funded robots to extract wounded Ukrainian soldiers from front-line kill zones.

NATO doctrine requires evacuation within 60 minutes. On Ukraine's front lines, it can take 24 hours. These machines close the gap.

🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/03/e500000-in-60-seconds-latvians-are-buying-robots-to-get-wounded-soldiers-out-of-drone-kill-zones/

Ukrainian POW sentenced to 18 years for defending Mariupol prosecuted again for saying that Russia invaded Ukraine
https://khpg.org/en/1608815570

Ukraine's defense industry grew from $1B to $12B since 2022—and lists personnel as its primary bottleneck.

Meanwhile, the broader economy is quietly contracting to fit the workforce it has. 10 million people gone. Births have halved in a decade. Women now register 61% of new businesses. Workers over 60 went from unemployable to indispensable.

The war reshaped who keeps the economy running. The question is whether anyone's left to keep it going.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/02/ukraine-labor-shortage-demographic-crisis-silver-economy/

Everyone says "four years of war." Russia's FSB started recruiting Ukrainian teenagers in 2007.

Documentary A Rising Fury filmed it. FSB-run youth clubs on Ukrainian soil. "Patriotic education" as cover. Kids from broken families groomed into future soldiers.

One recruit, Pavlo, discovered his mentor was FSB when the man warned him before the Maidan massacre: "I do not want to catch you in the crosshair of my rifle."

More than 300 km² reclaimed and eight settlements cleared in an operation on the Oleksandrivka axis, Ukraine's Air Assault Forces confirmed.

The objective is to push Russian forces beyond Dnipropetrovsk Oblast's border.

🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/22/ukraines-air-assault-forces-officially-reveal-southern-counteroffensive-that-reclaimed-300-km%c2%b2-and-eight-settlements/

Zelenskyy: US promised Europe licenses to produce Patriot missiles — then refused

Germany now has no air defense missiles left to give Ukraine. Zelenskyy says it didn't have to be this way: "There were promises of licenses, but America ultimately did not go along with it"
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/18/washington-promised-missile-licenses-then-walked-back-now-europe-is-scrambling-to-arm-itself-zelenskyy-says/

Hungary's FM just begged Croatia for Russian oil — even though Hungary already has a pipeline for non-Russian crude.

The real emergency isn't energy. It's the discount.

MOL buys Russian crude cheap, sells refined products at EU prices, and the savings never reach Hungarian drivers — they fund Orbán's patronage network.

Over €50 million in MOL dividends went to a regime-linked think tank now working to dismantle the EU institutions that sanction Russian oil.

Ukraine says it needs 60 days for a referendum on any peace deal. Russia offered one.

Zelenskyy called it "absurd" and took aim at Russia's new lead negotiator for philosophizing about historical roots: "We don't have time for all this shit."

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/russia-offered-ukraine-a-one-day-ceasefire-to-hold-a-national-vote/

"It might be easier for Trump to pressure Ukraine than the much larger Russia," Zelenskyy says as Trump publicly calls for Ukraine to make concessions in peace talks.

He warned Ukrainians "will never forgive" neither him nor the US for a unilateral Donbas withdrawal.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/its-easier-for-trump-to-publicly-pressure-ukraine-than-the-much-larger-russia-zelenskyy-says/

Ukraine's intelligence published alleged Russian radio chatter on life after Starlink: Gazprom terminals running on five satellites that can't hold a video feed

"This Gazprom terminal is ass," one soldier reportedly said

🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/its-ass-ukraines-intelligence-intercepts-russian-troops-struggling-with-gazprom-terminals-after-starlink-shutdown/

The Czech-led ammunition initiative has delivered 4.4 million artillery shells to Ukraine – more than half of all large-caliber ammo Ukraine received.

President Pavel says without it, Ukraine's ability to defend itself would have been "significantly complicated."

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/czech-led-ammunition-initiative-has-delivered-4-4-million-shells-to-ukraine/

Germany just admitted it has zero air defense missiles left to give Ukraine from its own reserves.

Foreign Minister Wadephul says new production goes straight to the front lines - but urged European partners to step up as Zelenskyy warns Ukraine is running low on interceptors.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/germany-has-run-out-of-air-defense-missiles-for-ukraine/

2,000 Ukrainian children returned home from Russian captivity through the Bring Kids Back initiative.

Zelenskyy says work won't stop "until every child is back" - tens of thousands remain under Russian control, forcibly separated from their families.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/ukraine-brings-2000-children-home-from-russian-captivity/

Third round of Ukraine-Russia-US negotiations kicks off in Geneva, now with British, French, and German advisers in the room.

Umerov says Kyiv is working "without excessive expectations" - two previous rounds in Abu Dhabi produced no concrete agreements.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/third-round-of-ukraine-russia-us-talks-opens-in-geneva/

Ukraine consolidated electronic warfare (EW) asset management into a single digital system: the Ukrainian Logistics Management System (ULZ), built on the NATO-standard SAP platform

Over 200 military units and command authorities can now receive EW assets faster https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/ukraine-builds-nato-standard-digital-logistics-for-ew-ulz-promises-faster-gear-delivery-to-front-lines/

China eliminated tariffs for 53 African countries starting 1 May. Only Eswatini—the last African nation recognizing Taiwan—was excluded.

The announcement dropped mid-Munich Security Conference, where Rubio had just denounced "free and unfettered trade." While Washington raises walls, Beijing opens doors.
Same week, China pledged energy aid to Ukraine. It also supplies 80% of the sanctioned components in Russia's drones.
One system. Three directions.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/china-africa-tariffs-ukraine-russia-drones/

NATO has never faced combat like Ukraine’s: Germany plans to integrate Ukrainian frontline troops into Bundeswehr training

Ukrainian soldiers will teach drone operations, combat tactics, and electronic warfare — skills honed daily on the front lines
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/ukraines-battle-hardened-soldiers-to-teach-bundeswehr-germany-braces-for-real-world-drone-and-mass-strike-warfare/

Latvia's media regulator wants all 13 Russian-language radio stations off the air.

They run on free state frequencies — a hidden subsidy, the agency's chief says. Parliament hasn't even scheduled a hearing in over a month.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/latvias-russian-language-radio-survives-on-a-hidden-state-subsidy-the-media-regulator-wants-it-over/

Ukraine quietly built an international F-16 squadron with veteran American and Dutch pilots to defend Kyiv's skies

Their weapon: a $2mn passive sensor pod that lets pilots hunt cruise missiles with their radar off.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/us-dutch-veterans-join-international-f-16-squadron-defending-kyiv/

Semyon Gluzman was 25 when the Soviet Union gave him 10 years in the Gulag — for proving a dissident general was sane.

In camp, he co-wrote a handbook teaching people how to dodge fabricated diagnoses.
His case helped force the USSR out of the World Psychiatric Association.

After release, he tore down the system that locked him up — founding Ukraine's Psychiatric Association and co-authoring its psychiatric care law.

A 32-year-old IT worker in Kyiv spent months driving around the capital, mapping energy facilities for Russian strikes, according to the SBU.

The court found the man marked drone corridors to bypass air defense — then checked if the strikes hit. Life sentence.

🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/it-worker-from-kyiv-gets-life-sentence-he-helped-russia-destroy-the-power-grid-that-heats-his-own-city-court-finds/?preview=true&_thumbnail_id=392559

Munich Security Conference 2026 showed that Ukraine is no longer seen only as a frontline buffer, said President's Office Deputy Head Palisa

Kyiv is becoming part of Europe’s security architecture and building joint production bases https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/munich-2026-marks-shift-ukraine-is-no-longer-just-frontline-state-but-core-pillar-of-europes-security-system/

Ukraine had a busy night: a rare Ka-27 helicopter struck in Crimea, an S-300VM launcher destroyed near Mariupol, an Iskander storage site blown up, and Sevastopol's occupation head calling it one of the longest attacks recently.

🔗 Watch videos at https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/one-night-two-of-russias-scarcest-military-assets-gone-ka-27-helicopter-and-s-300vm-sam-launcher/

Drones hit the Ilsky oil refinery in Russia's Krasnodar Krai again — a petroleum tank is burning across 700 m²

The refinery supplies fuel to Russia's forces in occupied Ukraine and has been struck repeatedly since 2025
🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/russias-ilsky-refinery-is-burning-again-and-sevastopol-just-had-its-longest-night-in-months/

Poland's GDP went from $199 billion to over $1 trillion after joining the EU. Estonia leapfrogged from post-Soviet poverty to producing Skype and Bolt.

But Croatia has lost 10% of its population. A third of Serbians believe their country will never join. Yet, Ukraine wants in by 2027—while at war.

Dr. Matthew Paris, EU law expert and editor-in-chief of the Lviv Herald, argues enlargement can work. But only if the EU starts earning the trust of ordinary citizens.

🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/14/ukraine-eu-membership-2027-balkans-cost/

Crimean faces up to 20-year sentence for ‘treason against Russia’ after donating money to help Ukraine
https://khpg.org/en/1608815516

22 faces of athletes on a helmet — IOC banned Heraskevych from the Olympics for refusing to remove them

Who were these Ukrainians killed by Russian forces?
🔗Read their stories: https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/13/a-judoka-9-a-footballer-13-a-gymnast-11-meet-the-22-athletes-killed-by-russia-the-ioc-wanted-off-an-olympic-helmet/