SpaceX has successfully cut off the Russian military from having “unauthorized” access to the Starlink satellite systems that had been used to attack Ukraine, Elon Musk said Sunday. Musk, the SpaceX CEO,

Dispatches from Ukraine. Day 1,440.

Efforts to halt Russia’s use of the Starlink internet system to guide its drones for attacks on Ukraine have produced “real results,” Ukraine’s defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov said on Sunday.

A new report warns that the number of soldiers killed, injured or missing in Russia's war in Ukraine could reach 2 million by spring

Claims that Russian forces are increasingly accessing Starlink in Ukraine have prompted questions about how the technology works and why restricting access is complex. View on euronews

The civilian death toll has been edging upward as the war grinds on. The United Nations' Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said in January that 2025 was the deadliest for civilians in Ukraine since 2022. "A massive increase in the use of long-range weapons by the Russian armed forces" helped drive the trend, the mission said.

Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with ballistic missiles early on Tuesday, local authorities reported, following a week-long pause in strikes on major cities and infrastructure agreed to by Russia and the US as Ukraine grapples with plummeting winter temperatures.

Current and former commanders, analysts and military bloggers are having a surprisingly open debate about whether drones have made Russia’s longstanding approach to battle obsolete.

Ukrainian forces struck Russian command posts and an ammunition depot in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts on the night of 1-2 February.

Russia has admitted for the first time that a Ukrainian missile sank its prized Black Sea flagship, later deleting the statement and returning to the official narrative that the guided-missile cruiser Moskva went down because of a freak accident.