Category: Updates
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11/19/2025 — Vladimir Putin fears entering Russian history as the man who lost Ukraine
From: Atlantic Council By Peter Dickinson The invasion unleashed by Vladimir Putin almost four years ago has often been called unprovoked, but nobody can say it was entirely unexpected. On the contrary, the full-scale invasion of 2022 was merely the latest and most extreme stage in a prolonged campaign of escalating Russian aggression aimed at preventing…
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11/19/2025 — Zelenskyy faces the biggest corruption scandal of his presidency
From: Atlantic Council By Suriya Evans-Pritchard Jayanti Editor’s note: This article was updated on November 17 to include Herman Halushchenko’s response to the corruption investigation. Amid Russia’s ongoing invasion, Ukraine is now facing the largest corruption scandal of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s presidency. It is a scandal with the potential to reshape the country’s politics. The intrigue, which…
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11/19/2025 — When the Fog Became Strategy: Russia’s Infiltration Doctrine Spreads as Ukraine’s Winter Looms
From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / November 19, 2025 While weather shields tactical advances in Siversk and Lyman, blackout predictions darken Ukraine’s winter horizon—and the world diverts ammunition meant for Kyiv to other wars. The Day’s Reckoning The fog rolled in again, thick as cotton, swallowing villages and tree lines across Donetsk Oblast until even sound seemed…
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11/17/2025 — Novorossiysk Biggest Strike: Russia Air Defense Detonated
From: Anna From Ukraine 🇺🇦 Vlog 1230: War in Ukraine — The drones of the SBU’s Special Operations Center “A” destroyed 4 S-400 launchers (an entire battery), an early-warning radar, and a target-acquisition radar in Novorossiysk, Russia. Oil refineries in Ryazan and Saratov were hit, paralyzing the production of 20 types of oil products.
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Major corruption scandal and Russian deepfakes | Ukraine This Week (video)
From: Kyiv Independent — In the latest episode of Ukraine This Week, The Kyiv Independent’s Anna Belokur reports on a major corruption scandal shaking up Ukraine’s government and involving people from President Volodymyr Zelenky’s circle. She also covers the worsening situation on the front line as Russia intensifies attacks near in Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv…
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11/17/2025 — Ukrainian intelligence hits Trans-Siberian Railway, halting freight traffic
From: New Voice of Ukraine Ukrainian intelligence carried out an operation that blocked a key logistics artery used by the Kremlin, the Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate said on Nov. 14. It was reported that an explosion occurred near the village of Sosnovka in Russia’s Khabarovsk Krai, halting freight traffic on the Trans-Siberian Railway — one of…
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11/17/2025 — Ukraine’s wages remain nearly seven times lower than EU average – Eurostat
Average wages across European Union countries rose by 5.2% in 2024, reaching €39,8k ($43k), Polskie Radio reported, citing Eurostat data, on Nov. 12. In Poland, the average annual salary in 2024 was about €21,250 ($22,9k), over $3k higher than the previous year. The highest average gross annual wageslast year were recorded in Luxembourg ($89,6k), Denmark ($77,3k), and Ireland ($66k). The lowest averages were registered in Bulgaria…
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11/17/2025 — Ukraine’s blackouts were avoidable. Energoatom corruption and political vendetta made them inevitable.
The blueprint existed. The funding existed. What happened instead reveals an institutional collapse more damaging than Russian missiles alone. From: Euromaiden Press BY MAXIM VOLOVICH Kyiv residents endure 12-16 hour blackouts this winter—but the darkness was avoidable. Ukraine had proven grid protection works: under former Ukrenergo chief Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, 60 concrete shelters defended critical transformers,…
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11/17/2025 — Shadows of Chornobyl and Iron: A Day of Reckoned Losses and Defiant Strikes
From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / November 17, 2025 November 15–16, 2025, etched a brutal mosaic where nuclear ghosts met modern missiles, prisoner swaps kindled fragile hope, and fog-veiled battlefields hid executions while Ukrainian drones lit distant infernos—reminding the world that this war devours the past as fiercely as the present. The Day’s Reckoning Envision the acrid…
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11/17/2025 — “O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart…”
From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 1360) O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;you will strengthen their heart;you will incline your earto do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.Psalm 10:17-18 We are at grandma’s for a few days, so it’s…
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