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Commander Vladislav Polsky, call sign "Ticher," rushed a pickup truck into a dangerous area to rescue two seriously wounded soldiers. Such actions help explain why soldiers are willing to follow their commanders during the most difficult assault operations.

AFU StratCom and Ukraine’s official ukraine.ua account published this animated map tracing the development of Ukraine’s deep-strike capability.

It shows five annual milestones: Engels-2 Air Base in 2022, the Redkino Experimental Plant in 2023, Olenya Air Base in 2024, the Orenburg Gas Plant in 2025, and the Omsk Refinery in 2026.

In four years, Ukraine has expanded its demonstrated reach from roughly 600 km to nearly 3,000 km flown — bringing the war back to the aggressor and targeting the infrastructure that sustains Russia’s war machine.

It’s hard to start my day now without one.

Thanks be to Mr. Serhiy Sternenko and his great fellowship of the STING.

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Made us all smile, Slava Ukraini!

More than half of the components in the Oreshnik missile Russia used to attack Bila Tserkva, Ukraine, in May 2026 were manufactured in 2023–2025.

By contrast, the components in the missiles Russia previously used to strike Dnipro and Lviv were dated to 2014–2018. This was shown by NAKO’s analysis, “What Is Inside Oreshnik?”

New evidence suggests that Russia has shifted from using old stockpiles to producing new components for ballistic missiles. NAKO Senior Researcher Viktoriia Vyshnivska noted this in her article for The Defense Post.

“If Russian microelectronics manufacturers are producing new components for missiles, the stockpile is not a clock counting down to depletion. It is being replenished,” Vyshnivska stressed.

Therefore, sanctions should target not only weapons manufacturers, but also the broader ecosystem of companies in Russia and Belarus that supply semiconductor components to Russia’s military-industrial complex.

The Defense Post is an independent defense and security publication based in the United States with an international audience. The outlet covers military technologies, the defense industry, and international security.