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Turkey’s Ukrainian-Engined Akıncı Drone Wields New Loitering Smart Weapons
Kyiv Post
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August 8, 2025
Turkish defense giant Baykar has released footage of its Bayraktar Akıncı strike drone undergoing tests with two Ukrainian-made turboprop engines and the latest generation of loitering smart weapons. The video, shared on X by Baykar’s technical...
German Technicians Repair Ukrainian Patriot Radar Raytheon Called Unfixable
Kyiv Post
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August 8, 2025
A Patriot air defense system critically needed to protect Ukrainian cities from Russian ballistic missile strikes is back in action thanks to an elite team of German technicians fixing war damage the American manufacturer said was impossible to...
Ukraine’s expanding robot army can help address manpower shortages
Atlantic Council
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August 7, 2025
The Ukrainian military claims to have conducted a groundbreaking local offensive in early July 2025, using exclusively robotic systems to seize a front line position in the Kharkiv region and capture a number of surrendering Russian soldiers....
Ukraine wants to soon begin exhumations of Ukrainians in Poland
Babel
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In September of this year, Ukraine plans to begin exhuming the remains of Ukrainians who were improperly buried in Poland. The Deputy Minister of Culture Andriy Nadzhos said this in an interview with Ukrinform. He said that in December the parties...
Exclusive Report: Ukraine upgrades U.S. M1A1SA tanks after armor weaknesses exposed on Ukrainian battlefield
Defense News Security News Army Recognition
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Following recent pictures published on social networks, in August, 2025, Ukrainian forces have begun applying field upgrades to U.S.-donated M1A1 SA Abrams tanks, equipping them with explosive reactive armor (ERA) and improvised anti-drone...
Xi and Putin Discuss Ukraine War in Phone Call
teleSUR
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Vladimir Putin (L) and Xi Jinping (R), Aug. 8, 2025. X/ @JoeHonestTruth August 8, 2025 Hour: 8:59 am On Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation in which they discussed the situation in...
Ukraine Defense Ministry’s Strategic Plan for 2025-2026
Mezha
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August 7, 2025
As reported by the Telegram channel of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Ukraine’s Minister of Defense, Denys Shmyhal, presented to President Volodymyr Zelensky the main objectives for the Ministry of Defense by the end of 2025, as well as the...
Ukrainian delegation visits for the first time since 1993
Taipei Times
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August 7, 2025
Taiwan stands with Ukraine in facing down authoritarian expansionism to protect democracy, President William Lai (賴清德) said while meeting with a Ukrainian parliamentary delegation yesterday. The delegation was headed by Ukranian lawmaker Mykola...
Ukraine positions AgroTech as its next global growth engine
The Odessa Journal
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As climate pressures, food insecurity, and rapid technological change reshape the global agricultural landscape, Ukraine is positioning AgroTech as a sector where it can lead internationally. Agriculture has long been one of Ukraine’s economic...
Ukrainians Trust Zelenskyy Less Since Wartime Protests, Polls Finds
News18
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August 7, 2025
Last Updated:August 07, 2025, 16:33 IST Public trust in President Zelenskyy hit a six-month low, per Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, after protests against his move to curb anti-corruption watchdogs' power. Ukraine's President Volodymyr...
Sanctions are failing: The West must close Russia's economic loopholes now and end the war in Ukraine
LBC
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5 August 2025, 07:41 | Updated: 8 August 2025, 08:36 Sanctions are failing: The West must close Russia's economic loopholes now and end the war in Ukraine. Picture: LBC/Getty By Dr Helena Ivanov & Dr Theo Zenou Donald Trump promised he would end...
DTEK Grids in Ukraine invests UAH 2.3 bln in electricity infrastructure reliability in H1 2025
Interfax Ukraine
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August 8, 2025
Photo: https://www.facebook.com/minenergoUkraine Distribution System Operators (DSOs) under DTEK Grids invested nearly UAH 2.3 billion in energy infrastructure during the first half of 2025, focusing on repairs, reconstruction, and new...
Trump and Putin’s relationship turns sour as president pushes for resolution with Ukraine
Fox News
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Bryan Clark, director of the Hudson Institute think tank’s Center for Defense Concepts and Technology, weighs in on why Trump revealed plans to move two nuclear submarines as tension with Russia heats up. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News...
Ukraine seeks to revive Russian-blockaded ports near Black Sea
Christian Science Monitor
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August 7, 2025
As mayor and head of the military administration of the Dnieper-Bug Estuary port of Ochakiv, Sergii Bychkov knows what the Turkish beys and Catherine the Great of Russia knew before him about the Kinburn Spit. Whoever controls that long and narrow...
Ukraine Creates New Interceptor Drone to Counter Shahed Drones
Militarnyi
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August 7, 2025
Ukraine has developed an interceptor drone to counter Russian Shahed and Gerbera attack drones. This was reported to Militarnyi by the developers. In response to Russia’s systematic attacks using attack drones, Ukraine has introduced new means of...
64 Audio Turns 15: Born in Ukraine, Raised on Rain, Now Ruling Your Earholes
eCoustics
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August 8, 2025
In the golden age of Head-Fi, geography is just a suggestion. From Romanian rebels to Bavarian tinkerers, Polish perfectionists to Ukrainian upstarts, the global headphone scene has become a hotbed of innovation where passion trumps pedigree—and...
Burgess: Technology. Can't live without it. But can we live with it?
Chillicothe Gazette - Ohio
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As if we didn't have enough to worry about, what with climate crises, an unstable ungenius in the White House, valuable government programs being cut, dangerous and destructive wars raging in the Middle East and in Europe, now a prominent...
OPINION: Ukraine - Don’t Hold Your Breath on Peace Talks
Kyiv Post
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August 8, 2025
Putin played hard to get, and in the end may get exactly what he wanted, which was a bilateral “Great Power” summit with Trump. Putin will surely hope that at that summit the two leaders can divide the world - Ukraine for Putin, Greenland, et al...
Ukrainian Drone Blows Up Concrete Bridge in Belgorod Region
Militarnyi
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August 7, 2025
A Ukrainian attack drone blew up a concrete bridge in the Belgorod region of Russia, which was actively used by the Russian army for logistics. The combat operation was conducted by soldiers of the 3rd Heavy Mechanized Brigade, known as the Iron...
Russian Oil Refinery Capacity Drops Nearly 10% After Ukrainian Drone Strikes
The Moscow Times
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August 8, 2025
Two of Rosneft’s largest oil refineries have been knocked offline following Ukrainian drone strikes last week, sidelining key infrastructure for at least a month and forcing Russia to ramp up crude exports through its western ports. Repairs at the...