Ukraine War Ukraine’s Drones Just Shut Down Moscow’s Airports for the Third Time in a Month — the War Putin Promised Wouldn’t Reach Home Is Here Ukraine's drones struck Moscow again overnight — more than 60 downed by air defenses, the capital's international airports disrupted for hours, and for at... Caleb LarsonJuly 1, 2026
Ukraine War This Year Was Supposed to Break Russia’s Way — With Washington Distracted, Putin Saw an Opening. Ukraine Just Slammed It Shut At the start of the year, the war seemed to be tilting Putin's way: Washington was distracted by Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba, and Moscow... Caleb LarsonJuly 1, 2026
Ukraine War The Fuel Crisis Has Reached Moscow Itself — and for the First Time in the War, Analysts Are Asking if Putin’s Grip Is Slipping For four years Putin kept the war's economic pain away from ordinary Russians. That strategy has broken down. Fuel rationing has spread from the... Isaac SeitzJuly 1, 2026
Ukraine War Russia’s Own Military Bloggers Now Estimate How Long a Soldier Survives at the Front — and It’s Measured in Minutes The pressure on Putin is mounting on every front at once. Russian military bloggers now estimate a soldier reaching the worst stretches of the... Reuben JohnsonJuly 1, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More Ukraine’s Drones Have Moscow Rattled Enough That Putin Is Rushing New Air Defenses Around the Capital — and It May Already Be Too Late The nightly drone and missile barrages have reached Moscow often enough that Putin is now reinforcing the air defenses around the capital with new... Brent M. EastwoodJune 30, 2026
Ukraine War Ukraine Is Quietly Asking France for Something Bigger Than More Missiles: The Right to Build Them Itself and Fire Them Without Asking Anyone Ukraine is negotiating with France for a license to build the SCALP cruise missile on its own soil, a step that would hand Kyiv... Harry J. KazianisJune 30, 2026
Ukraine War Russia Is Running Low on the Missiles It Needs to Stop Ukraine’s Drones — and That Changes Everything About Who’s Winning the Air War For most of this war, Ukraine was the side running dangerously low on air defenses. That's flipping. Russia is now reportedly running short on... Caleb LarsonJune 30, 2026
Ukraine War Putin Just Conceded Russia Faces a Fuel “Deficit” — the First Crack in His Insistence That the War Is Going to Plan Putin conceded Russia is facing a fuel "deficit" — a quiet admission of how badly Ukraine's long-range strikes have hurt the country, with refining... Caleb LarsonJune 29, 2026
Ukraine War Putin Went on TV to Reject a Halt to the Strikes and Vowed to Take It All: A Day Later, Missiles Tore Through Dnipro A day after Putin went on Russian television to reject Ukraine's proposed halt to long-range strikes and declare he would press on until Russia... Harry J. KazianisJune 29, 2026