While the world argued over tanks and F-16s, the CIA quietly built a deniable war machine in the Ukrainian shadows—armed to the teeth, fluent in covert chaos, and operating under a silence so deep Congress could barely hear its own heartbeat.

Lawmakers backed draft bill No. 13353 with 311 votes across all factions. The bill grants SBU military personnel the right to use weapons and combat equipment when carrying out defense missions. It also restructures the agency’s counterterrorism unit into a newly established “A Special Operations Center,

Ukraine's spy agency said a man and woman were suspected to be involved in the assassination that was caught on surveillance cameras.

"As a result of the explosion, a satellite communication hardware station—intended by Russian military leadership to coordinate occupying forces—was also destroyed," Ukraine's military intelligence said.

Ukrainian Security Service says two Russian FSB agents suspected of killing Colonel Ivan Voronych on July 10 have been "neutralized" in Kyiv Oblast.

A soldier who defected from Russia's notorious mercenary army has slammed military leaders who left troops to "rot in the fields". The Wagner soldier, named as Yevgeny, has reportedly defected to Finland after fighting as part of Russia 's new assault forces in Ukraine.

The MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile systems has proved critical in helping shield Ukraine from Russian attacks.

KYIV, July 13 (Reuters) - Ukrainian intelligence agents on Sunday killed members of a Russian secret service cell wanted on suspicion of having shot dead a colonel in Ukraine's SBU security service last week, the SBU said.

The military is using a gamification system to incentivize its drone pilots and upgrade its arsenal

The notorious Shahed is an Iranian-designed drone that Russia now produces at home and uses frequently in mass attacks against Ukraine.