Russia squeezes the flanks, then infiltrates the middle. Around Kramatorsk, it can’t do both
Russia knows how to take a Ukrainian city. Around Kramatorsk it does not have the infantry to run the method.
Russia is assaulting the gateway to Sloviansk. Ukraine’s 81st Brigade is holding it nearly alone
Mykolaivka is the biggest obstacle between Russian troops and Sloviansk, one of two big free cities in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast.
How Russia built a jam-proof drone force—and the Chinese supply chain that could still break it
First fiber optics, then mesh modems. Both came from China, and the modems are a catalogue item.
Ukraine’s new drone is a cousin to America’s stealth bombers. It reaches Ufa in three hours.
Ukraine's newest strike drone has a unique shape. And that helps it range deep inside Russia, faster, and with a heavier payload.
Ukraine’s new ballistic missiles would make Russia choose: bomb Kyiv or defend Moscow
Russia uses its S-400 air defense missiles in a surface strike mode. Once Ukrainian ballistic missiles start raining down, this may no longer be an option.
Can Ukrainian forces save Sloviansk and Kramatorsk?
Sloviansk and Kramatorsk are the last big free cities in Donetsk Oblast. Can Ukrainian forces save them from a creeping Russian advance?
Russia’s weirdest armored vehicle was built to fight infantry. The infantry stopped coming
The Russians are building and restoring thousands of replacement tanks and fighting vehicles. But the unique BMP-T is fading away.
Ukraine’s AI drones hammer Russian supply lines. Russia’s $10,000 drone just got the same kit
Russia built the Gerbera to be shot down instead of a Shahed. For $10,000, it now carries the Shahed's targeting kit.
Ukraine’s newest mine-clearing vehicle is a 1960s-design APC with nobody inside
Allies have shipped Ukraine more than 1,700 M113s. Khartia's engineers just showed what one looks like with nobody inside.
A Cold War submarine hunter is Ukraine’s newest Shahed killer
Ukraine's tiny interceptor drones need a little help getting into the air. An old naval helicopter is just the thing.
Russia took the cages off its newest tanks. The new Arena-M shield bought them a few minutes.
The Russians' new Arena-M systems shoots tiny projectiles at incoming enemy drones. But it didn't save a rare Russian tank assault this week.
Russia just copied Ukraine’s cleverest drone hunter
A $500,000 missile is a costly way of taking down a $50,000 attack drone. So the Russians are arming old planes with cheap interceptor drones.
Some Ukrainian bomber drones aren’t carrying bombs anymore. They’re carrying robots.
Roads can be treacherous for Ukraine's explosive unmanned ground vehicles. So heavy bomber drones are now airlifting them into action.
Ukraine is trying to wreck Russia’s oil fleet without spilling its oil—the Black Sea can’t take another slick
Ukraine's countershipping campaign risks polluting the fragile Black Sea. Drone operators are trying to spill less oil.