Illia Kabachynskyi

“Junta” implies dictatorship, and Ukraine is a democracy. When a Czech politician twisted the term, more than 40,000 citizens pushed back with an open letter of apology to Ukraine.

Once the iron artery of Russia’s economy, the state-run railway giant is now bleeding billions in debt, hemorrhaging freight volumes, and dragging industrial towns down with it.

Ukraine’s new Minister of Defense, Mykhailo Fedorov, met with Ukrainian and international media in a closed session, where he spoke about his objectives in the new post and how he intends to change the way the war is fought. His experience at the Digital Transformation Ministry has, unsurprisingly, proven useful.

In his address to the Ukrainian Parliament, Mykhailo Fedorov, then a potential candidate for Defense Minister, stated that before Russia’s full-scale invasion, there was not a single private company in Ukraine producing missiles or robots. Today, there are dozens of both. This, he said, is the work of his team—and the clearest reflection of its drive to strengthen Ukraine’s defense capabilities.

Russia attacked Ukraine using the Oreshnik missile system, a weapon associated with intercontinental nuclear strike capabilities. Moscow appears to have ordered a second such launch against Ukrainian territory, though the strike in the western Lviv region was carried out without a warhead and appears to have been intended primarily as a psychological demonstration rather than a kinetic attack.