Ukraine’s drive to black out occupied Crimea claims another night
Russian officials are staying mum on the extent of the damage after overnight drone strikes across the occupied peninsula
Ukraine’s Gen Z protested for their anti-corruption agencies last year. Now they’re protesting for one man
A leaderless crowd is reading the war more clearly than the command class that dismisses them—and letting one blogger tell them what it means.
NATO’s former deputy commander: Ankara papered over the cracks between Europe and America
Sir Richard Shirreff held NATO's second-highest military post. He now advises Ukraine's commander-in-chief—and says the summit that pledged Kyiv €140 billion produced no strategy.
Ukraine can build Patriots or keep hitting Russia’s refineries—not both, defense scholar says
Marc DeVore asked two expert groups he chairs, both advising the UK defense ministry, whether Ukraine could build Patriots within a year. Both said no.
Russia says it downed Ukraine’s first ballistic missile—a weapon Kyiv has never announced
Kyiv stayed silent. Moscow's ministry did the announcing.
NATO’s former No. 2 says the alliance must rebuild without America. Starting now.
He reported to an American commander for years. Now NATO's former deputy chief says Washington is "an inconsistent predator" and Europe must plan to stand without it.
NATO’s former No. 2 wants Ukraine to fight like it’s 1918
The front is stuck in 1917, Sir Richard Shirreff says—trench attrition neither side can break. The way out was invented a year later.
Ukraine can win the battles. Without the word “victory,” it loses the war.
NATO's former deputy commander says no one but Ukraine names victory as the goal. Ukraine's former defense minister warns that without naming it, even a battlefield win is no victory at all.
NATO’s former second-in-command says what the alliance won’t: only Russia’s defeat ends the war
He warned about Russia a decade ago. Now he's inside Ukraine's command—still pushing for the strategy NATO won't write.
Russia built its air defense in layers. A Ukrainian commander says the drones are peeling them off one by one
The layers were the whole point—each system covering the next. Now the sky over the occupied south opens for Ukrainian jets
Russian pilots chase Ukraine’s glide-bomb jets. They will soon meet Gripens’ 200-km Meteors.
Ukraine flies its glide-bombers in escorted pairs now. The Swedish Gripens' Meteor would hand that escort a reach Russian pilots can't shake.
Ukrainian commander: Russia can’t buy the air defense to hold Crimea. The microchips don’t exist.
The bottleneck over Crimea isn't money, a drone-hunting commander says. It's chips.
Azov Corps: Kherson 2.0 is next, then Crimea. Russia has no way to resupply them.
Not an analyst or a politician—the corps fighting the campaign said it.
Russia set fire to the Kyiv monastery where Moscow’s founder is buried
A Russian strike ignited the Dormition Cathedral; officials say it likely scored a direct hit