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Kyiv Data Center Strike: 16 Ballistic Missiles, Three Waves, and the War on the Cloud Goes Official
Russia's Kyiv data center strike destroyed Datagroup's facility beyond repair as 16 ballistic missiles hit the capital in three overnight waves, with no warning before the first. How the data center war became official policy on both sides.
chris Naganuma
6 hours ago6 min read
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Ukraine Patriot Missile Shortage: The Night the Ballistic Shield Ran Empty
The Ukraine Patriot missile shortage is no longer a warning. A source tells CNN the interceptors are gone, after a night when 39 missiles came and 4 were stopped. Inside the empty shield, the 850 drone week, and what Brussels can and cannot replace.
chris Naganuma
3 days ago6 min read
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Neptune Missile Strike on Borisoglebsk: Six Su-34 Bombers Hit, and Ukraine Ends the Refinery Pause
A Neptune missile strike on Borisoglebsk air base hit six Su-34M glide bomb carriers overnight on October 15, Ukraine's Navy says, with Zelensky counting four destroyed and two hit. The same morning, he declared the block on refinery strikes out: Ukraine is done holding fire.
chris Naganuma
4 days ago6 min read
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Energy Ceasefire Violations: Six Grid Strikes, Missiles Before the Sirens, and Lavrov's No
Energy ceasefire violations piled up within 48 hours of Trump's announcement: six Ukrainian energy facilities hit in one day, ballistic missiles on Kyiv before the sirens, Banderol missiles on Kharkiv, and Lavrov rejecting any respite.
chris Naganuma
6 days ago6 min read
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Kyiv Blackout: Russia Put 3 Million People in the Dark, and Named Its Price to Stop
The Kyiv blackout of October 8 put more than 3 million people in the dark, halted the metro and dropped water pressure across four districts. The same week, Moscow signaled it will consider the US energy ceasefire, for a price: sanctions relief. What the capital's darkest night since January says about the truce talks.
chris Naganuma
Oct 96 min read
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Kramatorsk Bus Stop Attack: The Glide Bomb That Killed 33, and Why the Fortress Belt Cannot Stop It
The Kramatorsk bus stop attack killed at least 33 people on October 8, the deadliest glide bomb strike of the year. What the UMPB D-30SN is, why nothing in the fortress belt stops it, and where the Donetsk front goes from here.
chris Naganuma
Oct 86 min read
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Flamingo Missile Production Strike: Russia's Birthday Barrage Names Six Plants and Kills 20
Russia billed its October 7 mass attack as a Flamingo missile production strike, naming six plants from a Kyiv ammunition facility to a cardboard mill in Obukhiv. The weapons that got through killed at least 20 people, most under one apartment block in Pryluky, on Putin's 74th birthday.
chris Naganuma
Oct 75 min read
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FP-7 Ballistic Missile: Ukraine's First Combat Launch and the Cheap ATACMS Doctrine Behind It
Zelensky confirmed the first combat use of the FP-7 ballistic missile on Thursday, October 1, with a night launch video and no word on the target. What Fire Point built, what 200 kilometers at 1,500 meters per second buys Ukraine, and why the price tag matters more than the range.
chris Naganuma
Oct 25 min read
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Zircon Missile Attack on Kyiv: Russia Opens the Winter Grid War With Hypersonics and Jet Drones
Ten Zircon and Oniks missiles, six Iskanders and 188 drones hit Ukraine overnight on September 30 in the first mass strike on the power grid since spring. Inside the Zircon missile attack on Kyiv, the jet drone math, and what it means for the war's fifth winter.
chris Naganuma
Sep 305 min read
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The Flamingo Missile Strike on Volgograd: Ukraine Is Now Hunting Russia's Rocket Fuel
The Flamingo missile strike on Volgograd hit Volgogradpromproekt, the sanctioned plant behind the burn-rate chemistry in Russian solid rocket fuel. One year in, Fire Point's FP-5 is a serial weapon working through the missile supply chain one factory at a time.
chris Naganuma
Sep 125 min read
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Paper Patriots: Ukraine's Patriot Production License Is Back on the Table
Rubio says the Patriot production license for Ukraine is being negotiated as we speak. It was pledged in July, pulled three weeks later, and the seventh straight night of strikes on Kyiv shows what the paperwork is costing.
chris Naganuma
Sep 64 min read
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The ASC 890 Is Flying: Ukraine Confirms Six Months of Combat Missions for Its Swedish Radar Plane
Ukraine's Ministry of Defence confirmed the ASC 890 radar plane has flown combat missions since March, tying F-16s and Mirages into one NATO-standard air picture. Here is what the Erieye radar changes, and why it matters in the Shahed era.
chris Naganuma
Sep 65 min read
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Is the Zircon Really Hypersonic? What Ukraine's Teardown of the 3M22 Shows
HUR just published the most detailed public teardown of Russia's 3M22 Zircon: slower than claimed, solid-fuel instead of a scramjet, a 120 kg warhead, and a supply chain of 70 companies with American chips inside. Here is what the file changes.
chris Naganuma
Sep 25 min read
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Stretching the Iskander: Russia's New 550 Kilometer Missile, and the Night the Intercepts Came Back
HUR tears down Russia's new 9M723-2, a 550 kilometer Iskander already fired at Kyiv, while Ukraine's air defense puts seven ballistic missiles into the dirt in one night.
chris Naganuma
Aug 315 min read
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Blueprints for Data: Britain Opens the Storm Shadow Vault, and Kyiv Pays in AI
On Independence Day, the UK cleared MBDA to hand Ukraine the classified data to build Storm Shadow cruise missiles on its own soil. In return, Britain became the first foreign partner inside AI Avengers Labs, Ukraine's five-million-frame battlefield dataset. The morning deep read for August 25: the trade, the timelines, and the targeting threat Moscow already issued.
chris Naganuma
Aug 255 min read
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Pyongyang's Ballistic Bench: The KN-30 Is in Russia, and It Has an Address
HUR confirms North Korea's KN-30 has reached Russia for the first time, with roughly 50 KN-23-series missiles in-country by July and six DPRK launchers plus 90 personnel based at Voronezh under the 112th Guards Missile Brigade. The catch-up sitrep for August 21: this is no longer an arms sale, it is a joint program with a live test range.
chris Naganuma
Aug 254 min read
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The Ballistic Gap: Kyiv's Worst Night of the Month, and the Math Behind It
More than 214 munitions at Kyiv in one night, 16 killed, a children's hospital hit, and a ballistic layer only Patriot-class interceptors can touch. Zelensky says Ukraine holds a tenth of the interceptors it needs. The catch-up sitrep for August 20: the gap between what Russia can launch and what Ukraine can stop.
chris Naganuma
Aug 253 min read
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Hunting the Bastions: Ukraine's Navy Goes After Crimea's Missile Coast
Ukraine's Navy put FP-2 strike drones into Bastion coastal missile positions at Rezervne, south of Sevastopol, the launchers behind the Oniks strikes Ukraine struggles to intercept. With Hvardiiske's ammo dump burning and the Syvash rail bridge hit again, the Crimea squeeze is working down its checklist. The catch-up sitrep for August 17.
chris Naganuma
Aug 254 min read
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Going Dark: Ukraine Stops Counting Missiles and Bets on a Drone Wall
Since August 9, Ukraine's Air Force has stopped publishing how many ballistic missiles Russia fires and how many are intercepted, a week after the zero-for-28 night over Kyiv. The same 48 hours brought two new homegrown interceptor drones and a Pentagon contract for a Ukrainian-proven system. The morning deep read for August 13.
chris Naganuma
Aug 135 min read
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Fired, Not Just Shipped: North Korea's KN-23s Are Back Over Ukraine
Zelensky says North Korean ballistic missiles hit Zaporizhzhia alongside Zircons on August 11, seven reported killed at Metinvest's works. Six days after HUR flagged 40 KN-23s delivered with crews to Voronezh, the deployment we covered is firing. Here is the ledger, the launch geography, and why the interceptor math just got worse.
chris Naganuma
Aug 124 min read
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