15 explosions rocked a Russian presidential sanatorium in Kursk Oblast, potentially marking a significant expansion of Ukraine's strike capabilities with Western-supplied weapons.
Most of them address violations of war laws, including attacks on civilians, mistreatment of prisoners, and the use of banned weapons. A small portion of them also includes collaboration, treason, and crimes against Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
Russia's updated doctrine frames large attacks by non-nuclear states backed by nuclear powers as joint assaults on Russia, but the Pentagon views this as rhetorical rather than a practical shift in military posture.
President Biden has authorized sending antipersonnel land mines to Ukraine, contradicting his previous opposition to their use and drawing criticism from arms control groups.
Ukraine must concentrate its ATACMS strikes on critical targets while Western allies, especially Germany with its Taurus missiles, need to step up support to sustain pressure on Russian forces, according to a new Royal United Services Institute analysis.
Ukrainian forces targeted one of Russia's largest ammunition storage facilities, hitting the 13th GRAU arsenal that houses multiple rocket launcher systems and strategic missiles.