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US is hitting Iran’s drone factories the way Ukraine wanted to hit Russia’s, ISW says The United States is hitting Iranian drone and missile facilities in a joint campaign with Israel — the same category of target Ukraine has sought to strike in Russia with US-supplied Tomahawk cruise…

The US is striking Iran's drone & missile factories — the same targets Ukraine asked Washington to hit in Russia with Tomahawk missiles. The US said no in Fall 2025. Now it's doing exactly that for Israel, ISW reports.
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Tehran vows to strike European countries if they join Iran war "It would be an act of war," Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said on 3 Feb. — a direct warning to European governments that had pledged to defend Cyprus after Iranian drone strike…

"It would be an act of war," — Iran's FM spokesperson, warning Europe not to join the conflict. Hours earlier, Iran-linked drones hit a British base in Cyprus. Greece, France & Germany have already sent warships.
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Russia's command has missed every deadline since trying to take Kyiv in days in 2022. Now it's planning to seize all of Odesa Oblast — a region ISW says its forces can't even approach.

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Two wars, one missile supply: Zelenskyy fears Iran conflict will starve Ukraine’s air defenses Last year's Israel-Iran war already slowed deliveries. Zelenskyy worries it could happen again.

Zelenskyy worries that US missiles bought with European funds could be redirected to the Middle East as Iran ramps up attacks across the region.

"Maybe the Americans will need them, like last year," he said. Last year's Israel-Iran war already slowed critical Patriot deliveries to Kyiv.

Russian armor has vanished from the front north of Kharkiv — drones of every type replaced it, a 13th Khartia Brigade officer told Army TV.

Airstrikes, Shaheds, fiber-optic FPVs: the full drone spectrum now operates where armored columns used to attack.

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EU banned Russian gas by 2027. The Iran war may undo it, Norway warns European gas prices hit multi-year highs as Gulf disruptions shake energy markets.

European gas prices surged 75% this week after Gulf disruptions halted Qatari LNG production and Iran threatened ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

Norway's energy minister says the EU debate over Russian gas imports "will be revived."

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337 Ukrainian POWs “consciously and brutally” executed by Russia – nearly all others tortured Ombudsman calls torture a state weapon at UN Human Rights Council session.

337 Ukrainian prisoners of war deliberately executed by Russia as of late 2025, with 95%+ of all POWs subjected to systematic torture, Ukraine's human rights commissioner told the UN.

Lubinets called torture "a state weapon" - and urged the world to stop watching from the sidelines.

Not enough Patriot missiles to stop 60 Russian Iskanders a month. The Iran war is draining what’s left. Ukraine's only defense against ballistic attacks became a whole lot harder to obtain

Russia makes 70-85 ballistic missiles a month. The US produces 550 Patriot interceptors a year—for itself and all foreign buyers

The Iran war is now burning through the same stockpiles Ukraine needs to survive

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€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 min. In Ukraine, it can take 24 hours. These machines close the gap.

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Iran hit Abu Dhabi but not the peace talks — Zelenskyy says the next Ukraine-Russia-US round is still days away The Ukrainian president says the 5-6 March trilateral is on track — he prefers Geneva, though Austria, the Vatican, or Turkey are also options if Russia wants a neutral venue.

The next Ukraine-Russia-US trilateral hasn't been postponed despite the Iranian attacks on Abu Dhabi and could take place on 5-6 March, Zelenskyy told Corriere della Sera.

The UAE capital may be replaced by a European venue — Zelenskyy prefers Geneva.

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Hungary took the oil, thanked nobody, and blamed the country that sent it MOL’s chairman says Ukraine pumped oil through Druzhba to stop a fire. Hungary accepted every barrel.

Russia bombed Druzhba. Ukraine pumped 35,000 tonnes of its own crude through the pipeline to stop the fire. Hungary's MOL accepted it all.

Then Budapest spent five weeks calling it a Ukrainian blockade—and used it to block €90billion in EU aid to Kyiv.

Russian manufacturers can’t find workers—but they’re cutting the ones they have Production declined for the 12th straight month, but firms are now shedding workers, too.

Russia's manufacturing has now contracted for nine consecutive months—and factories are firing workers despite the country's worst labor shortage in decades.

February PMI: 49.5. Output falling for 12 months straight. Defense gets 46% of the budget. Civilian industry gets the leftovers.

How autocracy’s most famous critic became part of its laundering machine She attacks Trump's envoy for his Russia ties—without mentioning he's business partners with the man she thanked at Oxford.

Applebaum has repeatedly attacked Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff for his Russia ties. She doesn't mention that Witkoff is business partners with the man she thanked at Oxford.

Her book describes the mechanism. Her lecture demonstrated it.
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Len Blavatnik held a $610 million stake in Rusal—implicated in supporting Russia's war effort—until 2022. Ukraine sanctioned him in 2023. Garry Kasparov's Free Russia Forum lists him as a key enabler of Putinism.

Anne Applebaum wrote the book on how autocratic systems launder respectability through Western institutions.

On 27 January, she stood at a sanctioned oligarch's Oxford school and thanked him from the podium.

Ukraine must meet EU pig welfare standards—while Russian missiles knock out farm electricity Production costs rising, sale prices stagnant—and Spanish pork is heading east.

Spain detected swine fever and deployed 100 soldiers, drones, and an EU emergency vet team.

Ukraine has the same disease across seven oblasts—but no functioning power grid, no vets near the front lines, and farmers selling infected pigs because nobody compensates them.

Russia’s Starlink replacement is giving away its positions — Ukrainian brigade tracks drone pilots by their Wi-Fi antennas Ukraine's 59th Brigade soldier says Russia's Wi-Fi alternatives require clear line-of-sight placement, making every antenna a marker for a drone operator position or EW station.

Russia lost Starlink and switched to Wi-Fi antennas. Ukraine's 59th brigade started hunting them.

Find the antenna, find the drone pilots. And intercepted radio chatter shows Russian operators can't even get stable internet for command coordination.

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70% of Ukrainians do not believe that peace talks will lead to lasting peace, according to Kyiv-based polling service No US troops, no closed skies, no free weapons—support for Donbas deal drops from 36% to 25% when guarantee details revealed

70% of Ukrainians don't believe the peace talks will lead to lasting peace, new KIIS survey finds. Only 25% think they could succeed.

When told a Donbas deal meant no US troops, no closed skies, no free weapons—68% rejected it.

Russia’s winter offensive ground to a halt as Ukraine recaptured more land than it lost in February, Syrskyi says The Commander-in-Chief reported that over three winter months, Ukrainian forces killed or wounded nearly 100,000 Russian troops — more than Russia managed to recruit into its ranks over the same…

For the first time since Kursk, Ukraine regained more ground than Russia seized in a single month, Syrskyi says.

Russia's reward for three months of grinding? 92,850 casualties — and less territory than where it started February.

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Did the US just fund Russia’s war by bombing its drone supplier? Urals crude hits budget target for first time in months as Gulf chaos drives global prices up.

Russia's oil revenues crashed 65% in January. Urals crude hit $39. Western sanctions were finally working.

Then the US struck Iran, and Urals jumped to $59.8, exactly Moscow's budget target. China is now swapping Iranian crude for Russian.

Ukrainian POW sentenced to 18 years for defending Mariupol prosecuted again for saying that Russia invaded Ukraine While Russia’s war of aggression undoubtedly discredits both the Russian regime and its military, Anton Saikhiev, whom Russia has imprisoned for defending his country, was prosecuted for telling the…

Ukrainian POW sentenced to 18 years for defending Mariupol prosecuted again for saying that Russia invaded Ukraine
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Ukraine will help Gulf states shoot down Iran’s Shaheds — if their leaders push Putin toward a ceasefire The proposal came hours after Shaheds struck Dubai and a US base in Bahrain — the same weapon Ukraine has intercepted over 57,000 times since 2022.

For four years, Ukraine learned to kill Shaheds the hard way. Now Gulf states need that expertise — and Zelenskyy has a price: one phone call to Putin about a ceasefire

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After the fourth time a NATO runner showed up with a paper map, Ukraine's Nemesis drone crew refused — and taught European officers a digital targeting system on the spot.

Four soldiers from combat. 29 sorties. A cold shower for 13 armies.

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Ukraine’s most wanted worker is 60 years old War flipped who keeps the economy running. The question is what comes next.

A furniture maker in western Ukraine started hiring workers from Bangladesh. Not by preference—there were no Ukrainians left to hire.

Workforce down 25%. Fertility rate at 0.7. GDP is capped not by capital but by bodies. The demographic math is brutal.

Latvia's FM Baiba Braže named three things the Iran war must not erase: Ukraine support, constraining Russia, and strengthening NATO.

She says Iran's entire leadership is gone — and decentralized command could drag the conflict out, Delfi reports.

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Port hit, terminal burning: New Novorossiysk strike adds pressure on Russia’s Black Sea oil logistics Videos and local reports indicate an attack on the port zone in Russia's Kranodar Krai city overnight into 2 March.

Ukrainian drones struck the Sheskharis oil terminal in Novorossiysk overnight, sparking a fire at one of Russia's key Black Sea oil export facilities, Militarnyi reports

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Russia took just 126 km² in February, down from 245 km² in January, while attacks barely dipped, Deep State reported.

Same assault tempo, half the ground. Russia is paying more for less.
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Russia is increasingly using quad bikes for flanking maneuvers near Myrnohrad after failing to break through Ukrainian positions directly, the 79th Brigade reported on 1 March.

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Ukrainian volunteer abducted in 2022 ‘found’ in Russian FSB-controlled Crimean prison Russia is continuing to conceal the whereabouts of Hola Prystan Mayor Oleksandr Babych, volunteer Oleksandr Kostiuk and very many others with details emerging only thanks to freed prisoners

Ukrainian volunteer abducted in 2022 ‘found’ in Russian FSB-controlled Crimean prison
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Even countries with better air defenses can’t stop every Shahed – Ukraine knows how, Zelenskyy says President calls on Europe to expand domestic air defense production as Iranian-designed threats spread.

Ukraine's air defense experience is "irreplaceable," Zelenskyy says - after watching Gulf states with stronger systems fail to stop every Iranian drone and missile.

Years of defending against the same Shahed drones Russia uses have given Ukraine expertise no other country has.