Illia Kabachynskyi

Russia’s war machine is losing fuel—literally. Oil revenues have cratered, sanctions are tightening the noose, and unsold tankers drift aimlessly at sea. 

In the fall of 2025, the Russian army sought to stretch the active line of contact and launched attacks in the area of Huliaipole, a small town in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region.

After a successful joint operation by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and the Ukrainian Navy, Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has lost another submarine—the second since the start of the full-scale invasion. The strike is not only about a half-billion-dollar loss, but also about a direct reduction in Russia’s offensive capability: the submarine was a carrier of Kalibr cruise missiles used in strikes against Ukraine.

They look like spiderwebs stretched across the road. But these nets installed near Ukraine’s frontline are designed to catch something far more lethal—Russian FPV drones.

In just a few years, Ukraine has gone from paper queues to a digital revolution—putting everything from driver’s licenses to military IDs in a smartphone. To advance the country’s digital transformation, Ukraine launched the CDTO Campus, a national training project that creates digital leaders who are reengineering government from the inside out.

Alongside bombing civilians and crippling Ukraine’s power grid, Russia is now deliberately targeting pharmaceutical warehouses, cutting off access to essential medicines worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Ukraine’s pharmacy chains, as well as importers and manufacturers from Europe, India, and beyond, are facing devastating losses.