Ukrainian drones have once again dismantled a US armored brigade — in a training exercise. During NATO's Combined Resolve war games in Germany this spring, pilots from Ukraine's 412th "Nemesis" Brigade located a 3,500-strong US formation by its dust plumes and picked apart tanks and IFVs with FPV and bomber drones so efficiently that judges had to keep "resurrecting" destroyed vehicles just to keep the exercise running. It's the third time in two years NATO has tested this against Ukrainian operators — after Estonia's Hedgehog 25 and Sweden's Aurora 26 — and the third time it's gone about the same way, with the US Army's own write-up on the exercise conveniently leaving the Ukrainians out entirely.
Back on actual battlefields, Russia sent 133 drones at Ukraine overnight, killing two railway workers when a jet-powered Shahed deliberately struck a passenger train's locomotive in Odesa region as its crew tried to get 340 passengers off in time. Zelensky, meanwhile, told CNN Ukraine has floated new proposals to US negotiators — contents undisclosed — but wants Washington leaning harder on Putin, and he's not budging on the remaining Ukrainian-held Donbas, warning that a rushed deal just buys Russia time to come back "with one or two additional million soldiers."
Wildberries keeps hemorrhaging money it can't easily explain to shareholders: Ukrainian strikes have knocked out roughly a third of its warehouse capacity and $5.7 billion worth of goods since mid-July, a sum that would cover the annual budget of Krasnoyarsk Krai with room to spare. On the Ukrainian side of the ledger, Rozetka's co-owner says the Brovary warehouse Russia leveled on Aug. 5 alone was worth $70 million — insurance won't cover it, so she's asking parliament for tax deferrals instead.
Elsewhere: the SBU says it broke up a 14-member Russian spy ring that recruited itself out of an aviation Telegram channel to photograph F-16 and Mirage 2000 bases; a bomb hidden in a Sevastopol trash bin killed a former Ukrainian submarine commander who defected to Russia in 2014; Ukraine struck Gazprom's Salavat refinery in Bashkortostan for the second time this month; and Kyiv received back 261 more bodies Russia claims are fallen Ukrainian soldiers — the latest round in a repatriation process that keeps getting slowed by explosives hidden in the remains.
By Jeremy Dirac
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