Meduza

Ukraine’s former defense minister Fedorov says he had no personal conflict with former armed forces commander-in-chief Syrskyi. ‘It’s an ideological conflict.’

Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s former defense minister, said in a lengthy interview with the Ukrainian news outlet Ukrainska ...
Meduza

About 1,500 sellers in Russia’s Leningrad Region lost their goods after attacks on a Wildberries warehouse. The governor promised them support.

About 1,500 Wildberries sellers in Russia’s Leningrad region lost their goods in a warehouse fire caused by Ukrainian drone attacks, according to the region’s governor, Aleksandr Drozdenko.
Meduza

FT: US and France gave Ukraine intelligence to bypass Russian air defenses in strikes on oil refineries

The United States and France have given Ukraine intelligence that helped Kyiv map out Russian air defense positions, allowing ...
Meduza

Ukrainian drones strike third Wildberries warehouse in Russia in a day

Ukrainian drones struck a Wildberries warehouse in Perm Krai on the morning of July 30. Ukrainian Telegram channels, including Exilenova+, were first to report the strike, publishing photos and video ...
Meduza

Kommersant: Russia’s General Prosecutor’s Office fires its ‘chief specialist’ in asset confiscation

Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has fired Sergei Bochkarev, head of its main civil litigation department, the Russian ...
Meduza

Russia strikes Kyiv, Lviv, and Kryvyi Rih with missiles; at least two children among the dead

Russian forces launched missile strikes overnight on July 30 against several regions of Ukraine, including Kyiv and its ...
Meduza

A Russian actor got up at 4:30 a.m. to tell Putin on Instagram: ‘You are not my president.’ Hours later, after his mother read him the comments, he said, actually, h…

Alexei Yarmushchik, a 26-year-old actor who worked at the theater run by Sergei Bezrukov, posted a video on Instagram on the ...
Meduza

Ukraine resumes strikes on Wildberries warehouses in Russia. See the attack on Ryazan.

Ukrainian drones attacked a Wildberries warehouse in Ryazan on the morning of July 29. Published photos and videos show ...
Meduza

Fiber-optic cables used to guide drones are blanketing Ukraine’s front line. Researchers are only beginning to understand their environmental impact.

The Russia-Ukraine war has long been called a “war of drones.” Now, the fiber-optic cables that guide many of those drones ...
Meduza

Two more Wildberries warehouses burn in Russian regions after Ukrainian drone attacks

Ukrainian drones struck Wildberries marketplace warehouses in the Penza region and the Udmurt Republic overnight on July 30, ...
Meduza

Wildberries says Ukraine’s drone strikes are force majeure. Does that actually get the marketplace off the hook in Russia?

On July 18, Ukrainian forces began striking the logistics warehouses of Wildberries, Russia’s largest online marketplace.
Meduza

Avdiivka, one year later Looking back on the battle that left a longtime Ukrainian stronghold in ruins and under Russian occupation

One year ago today, on February 17, 2024, Russia announced the capture of Avdiivka, one of the Ukrainian army’s key strongholds in the Donetsk region. Avdiivka has been a frontline city for the past ...