Chief of the General Staff — Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2014-2019, General Viktor Muzhenko (now a leading researcher at the Armed Forces Research Institute), in an interview with media Fakty, assessed the current situation at the front, outlined the main problems in the army and listed the key reasons for the failure of the counteroffensive. Texty.org.ua publishes key fragments of the conversation in the form of Muzhenko's organized direct speech.Читати українською

On November 21, in the early morning hours, Russia used an intercontinental ballistic missile against Ukraine for the first time, albeit without a warhead. Russia has attacked Ukraine many times before with weapons that can carry a nuclear warhead and has even launched missiles with a simulated nuclear warhead. But the latest attack was special. This missile, which our experts call Rubizh and Putin calls Oreshnik, had a unique sound and visual effect.Читати українськоюWe talked to people who were close to the place of the attack.

Today, November 21, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile at Ukraine for the first time.Читати українськоюAccording to the report, the Russians fired the intercontinental ballistic missile at Dnipro from the Astrakhan region. Additionally, during the attack on Dnipro, Russian forces used a "Kinzhal" missile and seven X-101 cruise missiles.Texty.org.ua marked the approximate routes of enemy air targets during the November 21 attack on a map, visualizing information provided by the Telegram channel war_monitor.

In recent weeks, Russian media have been actively covering the shelling of Ukrainian territory while avoiding detailed discussions of Ukraine's aerial counterstrikes on Russian soil. This approach aims to shape a specific information agenda within Russia.Propaganda has taken on new emphases: abandoning humanity when covering attacks on Ukraine, harsher rhetoric, and a focus on revenge.Читати українськоюRead about this and more in the latest edition of our monitoring of Russian state media and manipulative websites that deliberately spread Russian disinformation.

On September 3, Russians launched a double missile attack on a military educational institution in Poltava. A day later, the number of dead and wounded continued to grow (as of the evening of September 4, 53 dead, 298 wounded).Читати українськоюRescuers from different regions of the country are still searching for people under the rubble. Relatives are coming to the city to find out at least something about their loved ones who were at the site of the attack. Doctors are fighting for the lives of twenty people in intensive care units.Ihor Shafarchuk, a volunteer who was one of the first to arrive at the scene, rescuing people and organizing the triage of the wounded, told what happened in the first minutes after the explosions. A military expert explained whether it was possible to prevent the strike or shoot down the ballistics.

According to our General Staff, since the beginning of the war and until August 29, 2024, Russia has launched 23,624 missiles and long-range drones at Ukraine. Of these, 11,919 hit our territory and exploded. The remaining 11,705 were shot down, but sometimes there is also damage from the debris. On average, Russia makes 26 launches every day, half of which are guaranteed arrivals.Читати українською

The Verbytsky family, whose daughter Ksusha was injured in the missile strike on the Chernihiv Drama Theater on August 19, 2023, were in Kyiv on July 8 during a massive missile attack by the Russians. We wrote about Kseniia Verbytska's rehabilitation after last year's Chernihiv strike here: 14 surgeries on her arm: How the life of a 12-year-old girl changed after a Russian missile strike.Читати українською

As a result of a massive rocket attack on Kyiv on 8 July, seven districts of the city were affected - Solomianskyi, Dniprovskyi, Darnytskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, Desnianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi and Holosiivskyi. Having processed information from official sources, Texty.org.ua marked on the map the districts of the capital and the main objects that the Russians hit.Читати українською

July 8 marked another dark day in the history of modern Ukraine. An X-101 missile fired by a Russian aircraft struck "Ohmatdyt," the largest and oldest children's hospital in Ukraine and one of the largest in Europe.The explosion killed two people and injured 16, including 10 children whose lives were being saved.Читати українською

On the night of February 15, the Russians again attacked Ukraine with missiles of various types. The Ukrainian Air Force shoots down most of the Russian hardware flying into our territory, but some missiles still reach their targets. We have figured out the trajectory of hundreds of kilograms of explosives flying towards us.