Euromaidan Press

Euromaidan Press (EP) is an independent online newspaper in English that was established in 2014 by a group of Ukrainian volunteers. The publication is dedicated to reporting on events in Ukraine and offers translations of local news, expert insights, and original research. EP aims to connect Ukraine with audiences who speak English, providing them with a deeper understanding of the country's situation.

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Russia is now bombing Ukraine with practice drones, but why?

1 week ago | euromaidanpress.com | David Axe

The latest missile to join the Russian terror campaign is one of the weirdest: a target drone that the Russians have modified for a one-way attack. The Dan-M is a 350-kg jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicle that Russia’s Sokol design bureau designed for air-defense training back in the early 1990s. Launched from the ground or air, a Dan-M is capable of flying at very low altitude and high subsonic speed for as long as 40 minutes.
A Russian Iskander apparently blew up grounded skydiving planes

1 week ago | euromaidanpress.com | David Axe

A failed Russian missile raid is the latest reminder that high-tech deep strikes are only as good as the intelligence supporting them. And in this case, the intel was bad. Russo aimed a ballistic missile at what appeared to be high-value targets—and missed. The drone-hunting plane the Russians hoped to blow up wasn’t there.
Tens of thousands of Russians march on Kostyantynivka

1 week ago | euromaidanpress.com | David Axe

An awful clash is imminent along the villages and fields south of Kostiantynivka in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast. An industrial town with a pre-war population of 67,000, Kostiantynivka is the last major settlement between the front line and Kramatorsk, a city of 147,000 buttressing the last line of Ukrainian defenses in Donetsk. Capturing Donetsk is one of Russia’s top objectives in its 39-month wider war on Ukraine. Holding Donetsk is one of Ukraine’s top objectives.
I walked the streets where Russia’s drones hunt civilians. The UN just confirmed it’s a war crime

1 week ago | euromaidanpress.com | Zarina Zabrisky

Zarina Zabrisky, Euromaidan Press war correspondent, reflects on daily life under drone fire in Kherson, as the United Nations confirms these attacks were deliberate crimes against humanity. Russian armed forces have committed murder of civilians as crimes against humanity using drones, concludes the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine in a new report just out on 28 May 2025.
Russia's asbestos fighting vehicles cause cancer-and get blown up by drones

1 week ago | euromaidanpress.com | David Axe

Asbestos is bad for your health, so it’s not a good idea for Russian paratroopers to reinforce their armored vehicles with the carcinogenic material. But cancer-causing asbestos is the least of the Russians’ problem as they assault positions held by the Ukrainian 24th Mechanized Brigade in around Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast. But Ukrainian troops have problems, too.
meet the porcupine tank

1 week ago | euromaidanpress.com | David Axe

Two years ago, Russian troops began wrapping their armored vehicles in shell-like layers of add-on armor—all in a desperate effort to protect the vehicles from Ukrainian drones. The Ukrainians gave these up-armored vehicles a name—“turtle tank”—and got to work destroying them with better-aimed and more powerful drones. So now the Russians are trying a new kind of protection.
There are too many fiber-optic drones over Ukraine

2 weeks ago | euromaidanpress.com | David Axe

Fiber-optic first-person-view drones are jam-proof. Sending and receiving signals along millimeters-thick but miles-long optical fibers, these FPV drones are impervious to the radio interference that can ground wireless FPV drones. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible to defeat a fiber-optic drone.
Ukraine's WWI-style vintage drone hunter was so good that Russia just copied it

2 weeks ago | euromaidanpress.com | David Axe

The Ukrainians turned at least two propeller-driven Yak-52s into drone-hunters in the simplest way possible: by arming the backseat crew member with a shotgun. A Russian design bureau has copied the idea—and added an underwing sensor turret in addition to a backseat shotgun to create the Yak-52B2 variant of the classic training plane.
Ukraine's idea for swatting down drones was so good, Russia copied it-a year later

2 weeks ago | euromaidanpress.com | David Axe

The Ukrainians turned at least two propeller-driven Yak-52s into drone-hunters in the simplest way possible: by arming the backseat crew member with a shotgun. The Russians got fancy—and added an underwing sensor turret in addition to a backseat shotgun to create the Yak-52B2 variant of the classic training plane. All the Yak-52 dogfighters, Russian and Ukrainian alike, benefit from availability, simplicity, maneuverability and forgiving low-speed handling at a cruising speed of just 225 kph.
Ukrainian jets bomb the way for troops into Kursk 2.0-but Russians are nipping at their heels

2 weeks ago | euromaidanpress.com | David Axe

Ukrainian fighter jets are demolishing buildings and bridges in western Russia’s Kursk Oblast, clearing a path for Ukrainian troops who have reached the town of Tyotkino, just 1.6 km from the border. But Russian forces are already threatening to cut them off. The dramatic destruction of a pair of bridges outside Zvannoe, 19 km northeast of Tyotkino (Tetkino), was a prelude to the Ukrainian advance.