Investigation

A Kyiv appellate court upheld a ruling requiring Hromadske to delete its investigation about ex‑official Andriy Portnov and retract certain claims. The editorial team says it will appeal to the Supreme Court, underscoring stakes for media freedom. | empr.media. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

Despite sanctions, Europe’s fuel buys “washed” through Indian refineries are filling Putin’s war chest with billions. Inside the loopholes and shadow tanker networks funding Moscow. empr.media.

Ukraine is withdrawing 100,000 defective domestically‑produced landmines from frontline deployment after quality control failures raised safety and tactical concerns for troops and civilians. ([empr.media](https://empr.media/opinion/investigation/ukraine-withdraws-100000-defective-domestically-produced-mines-from-the-frontline/?utm_source=chatgpt.com))

An inside look at how Ukraine’s push for drone reform has triggered political power struggles, policy battles and defense sector intrigue that could reshape battlefield autonomy and procurement.

An interesting case occurred in the Pokrovsk direction. A unit of Russian assault troops advanced in a full-frontal attack across open terrain towards a Ukrainian strongpoint, and soldiers of the 110th Mechanized Brigade eliminated all the attackers as if in a shooting range. When collecting the documents of the killed soldiers, Ukrainian intelligence was surprised—they discovered that these Russians had […]

Let me explain why this decision is harmful to the country: The United Mining and Chemical Company is a European leader in the extraction of titanium and zirconium ores. Its structure includes the Vilnohirsk Mining and Metallurgical Plant, located in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and the Irshansk Mining and Processing Plant in the Zhytomyr region. You would be hard-pressed to find […]

The scandal surrounding the documentary film “Russians at War” once again highlights that Ukrainians today must defend not only Ukraine from the Russian army but also the world from Russian propaganda. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain how it happened that the Canadian Media Fund, funded by Canadian taxpayers, allocated $340,000 for the filming of the movie “Russians at War” […]

Since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, the country has witnessed the largest wave of ministerial dismissals. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy explains this by saying that government positions require “new energy.” However, many of the successors are current employees of the President’s Office. So, will this “energy” really be all that new? And who exactly will take on the […]

Here’s what the implementation of the strategy “help as much as needed so that Putin cannot win” looks like. The numbers, which are hard to hide behind a pile of words, force a sober understanding of Ukraine’s prospects in the war with Russia, if Kamala Harris becomes the president of the U.S. If Trump becomes president of the U.S., there […]

Part 1. The latest installment of the media series by The Wall Street Journal about Ukraine’s involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines added little new information, aside from repeating some well-known names, such as the President of Ukraine and the former Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The ongoing “development” of the Ukrainian connection increasingly reminds me […]

Today, Deputy Minister of Energy Oleksandr Khaylo was exposed for allegedly accepting a $500,000 bribe. The operation to uncover the bribe was conducted jointly by NABU, SAP, the SBU, and the Kyiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office. Here’s where it gets interesting. Almost simultaneously (exactly at 10:00 AM), NABU, SAP, the Kyiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, the Office of the Prosecutor General, the […]

38 years have passed since the day of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant tragedy. But on 2022, Ukraine and the whole world were at risk of a repeat of the disaster, because the Chornobyl nuclear power plant was under Russian occupation for more than a month. In the first days of the invasion, some monitoring stations recorded a 7-fold increase […]