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The 20-Somethings Running Ukraine’s War Machine

A new generation has been cutting red tape to speed weapons to the front. But the old guard pushed back, and now Ukraine’s young defense minister is out./ image/ A friend’s call for help led Mykhailo Rudominski into defense work. His company, Himera, makes electronic warfare-resistant radios.JeJędrzej Nowicki for The New York Times/ By Constant Méheut/ Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine/ July 17, 2026/ Updated 4:57 p.m. ET/ This spring, a Ukrainian defense ministry employee was reviewing Denmark’s military aid commitments when she found a problem buried in the fine print. Thousands of artillery shells earmarked for Ukraine were the wrong kind — short-range ammunition that would not enable guns to strike deep behind Russian lines./ Skipping the usual bureaucratic process, the staffer worked the phones around the clock, pushing Danish officials to modify the aid package, according to her boss, Oleksii Antoniuk, deputy head of the defense ministry’s cooperation department. Within weeks, s...
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Ukraine Pounds Russian Ships in Its Campaign to Cut Off Crimea

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After striking roads and railways, Kyiv is now focusing on sea routes as it tries to disrupt fuel supplies and pressure Russia to end the war. A screenshot taken from footage provided by Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces showed a drone flying toward a ship at port in the city of Kerch in Crimea in early July. Credit... Commander of Unmanned Aerial Systems Force, via Reuters By Nataliya Vasilyeva , Marc Santora and Cassandra Vinograd Marc Santora and Cassandra Vinograd reported from Kyiv Article appeared in  The New York Times , on July 16, 2026 Ukraine has opened another front in its intensifying blockade of Crimea, striking growing numbers of Russian vessels in the waters near the occupied peninsula as it tries to heap pressure on the Kremlin to end the war. Kyiv is using its expanding arsenal of long-range drones to mount its largest campaign in the Sea of Azov since Moscow’s full-scale invasion in 2022. Advances in technology have only recently brought the sea, which is surro...
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