Le président Volodymyr Zelensky a accusé la Russie d'avoir eu recours à des missiles livrés par Pyongyang dans une frappe menée à Zaporijjia. L'allié de Moscou mobilise ses forces dans le cadre d'un accord signé en 2024.
Ukraine has built an interceptor that catches Russian drones instead of ramming them. The company WINFLY has unveiled the WINFLY Spider, an interceptor equipped with a net-launcher to neutralize targets with a net and return to its launch point, the defense outlet Militarnyi reported.
The Spider is the newest entry in Ukraine's fast-growing interceptor-drone industry. Ukraine has fielded a widening range of cheap interceptors to counter Russia's massed drone attacks, and the Spider's distinction is reusability.
The netgun makes it reusable
Most interceptors are one-shot weapons that ram or explode against their target. The Spider instead carries the Karakurt net-launcher, made of high-strength aluminum and rated to work from −20°C to +50°C, which snares an enemy drone in a net while the interceptor itself stays intact and ready for repeat flights.
The economics are the point. The developers say each net shot about $27, while the drone remains undamaged. That turns the cost equation of drone defense, where an interceptor is often spent to down a single target, into one where the same aircraft can make many intercepts, paying only for a cheap net each time.
The platform and what it hunts
The Spider is built on an existing WINFLY interceptor. It uses the WINFLY 10 Hunter as its base platform, which operates at up to 5,000 meters, reaches 160 kilometers per hour, and has a range of over 18 kilometers.
It is designed for a range of Russian drones. The system targets fixed-wing UAVs, Mavic quadcopters, FPV drones, and fiber-optic drones, with flight times up to 25 minutes, deployment times of up to 3 minutes, and target detection ranges of up to 500 meters. The maker offers day and night versions.
One tool in a scaling defense
Ukraine is downing tens of thousands of Russian drones a month, per the Defense Ministry, and fielding interceptors from at least 29 licensed makers, with new designs like the high-altitude Tsyklop climbing above enemy drones and others ramming them.
Ukraine is shooting down drones at a fast-rising rate. Ukraine's Defense Forces destroyed 40,438 Russian fixed-wing drones, or "wings", in July 2026, Ukraine's Defense Ministry reported on 11 August.
The July figures mark a defense scaling up as fast as the threat it counters. Since the start of the year, Ukraine's Defense Forces have destroyed 195,000 Russian "wings" and 66,000 copters. A counter-drone effort is growing month by month against a Russian drone campaign that has itself expanded relentlessly.
The numbers climbed across drone types
Both categories of drone kills rose sharply. Fixed-wing "wings," the category that includes long-range attack drones like Shaheds, climbed from 27,711 in May to 40,438 in July, according to the ministry.
Copter kills rose even faster in proportion. The number of destroyed copters grew 42% in a single month, from 14,071 in June to 19,945 in July. The parallel rise in both types reflects a Russian drone offensive attacking on multiple fronts at once, from deep-strike Shaheds to short-range quadcopters over the trenches, and a Ukrainian defense expanding to meet each.
DELTA confirms every kill
Every strike has been confirmed by the DELTA system, and video recording of the shootdowns helps identify the most effective counter-drone tools for development and scaling, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said.
That verification matters for a claimed tally. Rather than a bare count, the numbers are tied to Ukraine's battle-management system, which logs and video-confirms each kill, the same DELTA platform whose combat data now trains Ukraine's target-detection AI.
The count is one side of the drone war
The figures capture only Ukraine's defensive half of a war fought increasingly by drones. Russia has expanded its drone production and nightly launches throughout 2026, aiming to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses with mass, and the rising Ukrainian kill counts are the answer to that escalation, not a sign it has eased.
Annoncé dimanche soir, le rejet par Israël du plan de paix américain pour Gaza traduit les dissensions au sein de la coalition gouvernementale de Benjamin Netanyahu alors que se profilent des élections législatives décisives en octobre. Selon plusieurs analystes, le Premier ministre israélien offre par ce refus une victoire diplomatique au Hamas.
Last night, the enemy launched a ballistic strike on an industrial site in Zaporizhzhia; the Zaporizhstal steel mill was hit, resulting in fatalities and injuries. Operations at the plant have been temporarily suspended.
Lawsuit challenges executive order targeting international criminal court for investigating Israeli crimes in Palestine
Four prominent US human rights organizations have accused the Trump administration of using its “crippling” sanctions regime against the international criminal court (ICC) to undermine global efforts to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court on Tuesday, the groups – the American Friends Service Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch and the Open Society Institute – argued that the administration’s targeting of the ICC, as well as of groups and individuals affiliated with it or assisting its work, amounts to a “blatantly illegal attack on international justice”, the groups said.
Un tribunal syrien a condamné mardi en son absence le président déchu Bachar al-Assad, son frère Maher et plusieurs autres ex-responsables à la peine de mort pour les crimes commis durant la guerre civile, les premières condamnations de membres de l'ancien pouvoir.
Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) said on 10 August 2026 that it had detained three more people suspected of illegally registering Starlink satellite terminals for Russian forces, and had blocked two separate schemes for putting hostile terminals onto Ukraine's verification list.
The arrests are the latest in a months-long pattern. After Ukraine and SpaceX cut off smuggled Starlink terminals and required every device to be verified, the SBU says, Russia turned to paying financially desperate Ukrainians to register hostile terminals under real Ukrainian identities, laundering them onto the whitelist meant to keep them out. Each case the service has announced follows the same script: a recruit found through Telegram, a terminal signed up in their own name, then pressure to pull in others.
In Dnipro, according to the service, counterintelligence exposed a woman who had done Russia's bidding in exchange for money to buy drugs. She registered one terminal in her own name, the SBU said, then drew in acquaintances, also looking for money for a "dose," to register more.
Photo: SBU
In Zhytomyr, according to the service, a local unemployed woman registered one terminal in her own name, then brought in a male acquaintance, and the two moved to what the SBU called "serial" activation at post offices, using front persons who handed over their personal data for a cut of the payment.
Photo: SBU
The SBU described all three suspects as drug-dependent people who had gone looking for quick money in Telegram channels, the same recruitment funnel it has flagged in earlier cases. The service said it had documented the suspects' activity, detained them at their homes, and blocked every terminal registered through the two schemes.
Investigators served the three with notices of suspicion under two articles of Ukraine's Criminal Code: Article 114-1, obstructing the lawful activity of the Armed Forces and other military formations during a special period, applied together with the prior-conspiracy provision of Article 28, and Article 111-2, aiding the aggressor state. The SBU said the suspects face eight to 12 years in prison. These are allegations, and none of the three has been convicted.
The SBU's regional directorates in Dnipropetrovsk and Zhytomyr oblasts ran the operations with the National Police, overseen by the regional prosecutors.
In February, the SBU detained a couple in Odesa Oblast who, it said, had agreed to register terminals for Russia at $30 each and planned to pull in a local resident who uses drugs to help.
In late June, the service reported eight suspected agents who registered terminals in their own names, passed the credentials to Russian handlers, and were told to recruit as many additional people as possible.
On 24 July, the SBU said it had broken up a network in Kyiv that used fake Ukrainian passports and an unwitting postal worker to activate 76 terminals for Russia's FSB security service, a case that drew high treason charges under martial law and the threat of life imprisonment.
On 25 July, the service detained a man in Dnipro suspected of registering more than 1,000 terminals, the largest single scheme reported so far.
Why Starlink matters
Starlink, operated by SpaceX, has become one of the most important communications systems on the modern battlefield, providing fast, reliable satellite internet that is difficult to jam.
Ukraine has relied extensively on the network throughout Russia's full-scale invasion to maintain communications between military units and support drone operations.
Russian forces have also sought access to the system, but their use has been significantly constrained. In cooperation with SpaceX, Ukraine has introduced verification measures and whitelisted legitimate users operating on Ukrainian territory, limiting Russian access and forcing Moscow to seek alternative communications systems.
Russia will introduce two editions of a new regional history textbook series in occupied Ukrainian schools on 1 September 2026. The books present the occupied Ukrainian regions as historically Russian, MOST, a Kherson-based outlet, reported on 10 August.
The new textbooks bring Russia's campaign to erase Ukrainian identity into occupied classrooms, where authorities remove Ukrainian from curricula and replace lessons with Russian ideology, military drills, and firing-range visits. Moscow's Russification campaign extends beyond schools to efforts to change the demographics of occupied Ukrainian territory and re-educate forcibly transferred Ukrainian children.
The new textbook series, entitled "History of Our Region: Donbas and Novorossiya," comprises one edition for grade 5 and another for grades 6–7. The course attached to the books will be compulsory throughout Russia's so-called "new regions," according to the Ukrainian human rights center ZMINA.
"Novorossiya" is an imperial term Moscow uses to claim southern and eastern Ukraine.
Russia's Education Ministry calls the course "objective" and part of a "unified history of Russia," Meduza reports. Minister Sergei Kravtsov claimed it contains "objective information, rather than the lies that appeared in Ukrainian textbooks."
Replacing the curriculum, then the population
The "Novorossiya" textbook forms part of a broader Kremlin campaign to Russify occupied Ukraine's education, culture, and demographics.
Since occupying Melitopol, Russian authorities have systematically replaced Ukrainian curricula and textbooks. Older Russian textbooks, issued after Moscow's full-scale war, already depicted occupied Melitopol as part of Russia.
A 2025 Kremlin strategy requires occupied regions to enter Russia's educational, cultural, and information space. The policy also sets a nationwide target for “All-Russian civic identity” to reach at least 95% by 2036.
35,000 Ukrainian children still missing
Meanwhile, experts estimate that about 35,000 Ukrainian children remain missing and are likely held in Russia or Russian-occupied territory. Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab identified at least 210 facilities used to hold children from Ukraine. The lab found that at least 130 facilities subjected Ukrainian children to pro-Russian cultural, patriotic, or military programs.
One case shows where such indoctrination can lead. Once listed as missing under occupation, Ukrainian boy Oleksandr Mustiatse later appeared online in a Russian uniform bearing the “Z” invasion symbol, Save Ukraine reported.
Le Pakistan, pays réputé pour ses valeurs conservatrices, fait rarement parler de lui pour sa scène musicale et de divertissement. Pourtant, dans les grandes villes comme Karachi et Lahore, une scène DJ discrète mais en plein essor commence à se faire entendre, avec des talents émergents et des artistes qui transforment l’industrie musicale. Au cœur de cette évolution, de plus en plus de femmes s’affirment dans un milieu largement dominé par les hommes.
L’Europe occidentale vient de connaître sa période juin-juillet la plus chaude jamais mesurée, selon le service européen Copernicus. La température moyenne sur ces deux mois a atteint 21,62 °C, dépassant le précédent record établi en 2022. Reportage France 2.
Novorossiysk remains the last outpost where Russia can station its Black Sea Fleet warships after losing the ability to use Crimea as a naval base fully.
Un séisme de magnitude 7,4 a frappé lundi la Colombie, dans le département pauvre du Choco, dans l’ouest du pays. Le bilan fait état mardi d'au moins 224 morts, de centaines de blessés, ainsi que de nombreux dégâts matériels. France 24 a recueilli les témoignages de plusieurs habitants de la ville de Quibdo.
En Colombie, les opérations de sauvetage se poursuivent dans l'ouest du pays, frappé lundi par un séisme de magnitude 7,4 - le plus puissant que le pays ait subi depuis des décennies. Récit de Noémie Roche.
En Europe, la sécheresse transforme les paysages. Du Rhin au Danube, les fleuves sont au plus bas et révèlent des vestiges inattendus. Alors que plusieurs pays s’apprêtent à affronter de nouvelles températures proches de 40 °C, les touristes cherchent l’ombre.
August 12 has been declared a day of mourning in the Zaporizhzhia region for those who died as a result of the Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia on the night of August 11.
La première ministre et cheffe caquiste, Christine Fréchette, a poursuivi mardi ses présentations de candidats en vue des prochaines élections québécoises. Cette fois, c’est dans la région de Chaudière-Appalaches qu’elle a fait ses annonces ; un terreau potentiellement fertile pour les troupes conservatrices d’Éric Duhaime.
À la veille de l’éclipse solaire du 12 août, Biarritz se prépare à accueillir de nombreux curieux. Dans cette ville du sud de la France, la Lune masquera jusqu’à 99,5% du Soleil, soit le taux d’occultation le plus élevé observé depuis la France métropolitaine. Reportage France 2.
On aime tous avoir un beau jardin bien fleuri et des plates-bandes luxuriantes tout l’été. Mais que ce soit par manque de temps ou d’intérêt, on aime bien ne pas avoir à passer des heures à bichonner nos plantes. Voici notre top 5 des vivaces résistantes à entretien minimum.
Les aménagements paysagers sans aucun entretien n’existent pas. Il y a toujours un minimum à faire : un peu de désherbage, d’arrosage, la taille ou le rabattage, etc.
Certaines plantes sont plus fragiles et demandent plus de soins aux jardiniers alors que d’autres vivent leur vie tranquillement, avec un minimum d’entretien.
Hostas
Les hostas sont appréciés pour leurs feuillages colorés et lumineux plus que pour leur floraison. Tolérant les espaces ombragés, ils enjoliveront même les sous-bois où le soleil se fait très rare. Vous pourrez facilement les diviser quand ils auront pris trop d’expansion.
Hémérocalles
Les hémérocalles sont très faciles de culture et ont une longue durée de vie. Plus souvent jaunes et orangées, mais aussi disponibles en rouge, rose et violet, les fleurs des hémérocalles ne durent qu’une journée, mais comme la floraison est abondante, ce n’est pas un enjeu. Même lorsqu’elles ne sont pas en fleurs, les hémérocalles sont très ornementales grâce à leur feuillage touffu qui rappelle les graminées.
Rudbeckies
Les rudbeckies ressemblent à des marguerites, mais dont les pétales jaunes surmontent un centre brun foncé presque noir. Faciles de culture, elles poussent bien en plein soleil ou à la mi-ombre. Elles fleurissent de juillet à septembre et on ne doit que supprimer les fleurs fanées et rabattre le feuillage en automne ou au printemps pour assurer leur santé. Elles mettent du soleil partout!
Astilbes
Avec leurs fleurs en forme de plumeaux rouges, roses, blancs ou violacés, les astilbes tolèrent les sols humides et les endroits ombragés. Leur feuillage délicat et bien découpé ajoute encore plus de beauté à ces vivaces polyvalentes.
Achillées
L’achillée est très résistante, voire légèrement envahissante; vous devrez la contrôler de temps en temps pour ne pas qu’elle s’étende trop. Avec ses petites fleurs regroupées en talles, elle tolère la sècheresse et les endroits très ensoleillés. On retrouve différentes couleurs en jardinerie : blanc, rouge, rose et orangé.
Bon jardinage!
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L'Alliance de la presse d'information générale, organisme collectif regroupant près de 300 quotidiens français, a annoncé mardi être passée à l'offensive devant l'Autorité de la concurrence après le déploiement fin juillet par Google de résumés réalisés par IA, dont les médias redoutent qu'ils ne les privent de trafic.
Russia has effectively lost the ability to use occupied Crimea as a naval base, but continues to launch airstrikes against Ukraine and maintain military infrastructure on the peninsula.
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