Russia lost ground for a second straight month in June. CSIS says it has lost the initiative too
The war in Ukraine is grinding into a new frozen state as Russian advances slow or reverse in recent months.
Ukraine’s ballistic missile may have reached Moscow. The damage wasn’t the point.
Ukrainian developers rush new weapons into combat to gather data, not to inflict damage—the way Fire Point spent a year missing before the Flamingo started landing. The first ballistic shot was doing that job.
For two years, Ukraine’s strikes barely scratched Russia’s war factories. Something just changed.
The warheads finally got heavy enough to leave damage that lasts—and Ukraine's drones cleared the air defenses that used to stop the missiles short.
Ukraine lost three fighters in one day—one outranged in the air, two caught on the ground. The Gripen fixes both
A Russian missile downed one MiG from beyond the range it could shoot back; drones caught the other two parked. The Swedish jet that arrives next year is built against exactly these losses.
Russians keep raising “Potemkin flags” in Lyman. They’re no closer to capturing it.
Scattered reports of Russian flags flying over Lyman don't indicate new Russian positions in the front-line city. Lyman holds.
Russia is bolting World War II-style bridges onto armored tractors. They’re slow—and Ukraine’s drones are fast
Every bridge over the Vovcha is gone, so Russian crews drive improvised spans into the river and bail out—leaving the vehicles behind as makeshift bridges. The drones find them anyway.
After eight months, Kostiantynivka is falling. Why some Ukrainian commanders would rather fight the open fields behind it
Russia's first strategic win of the year is a ruined city—and Ukraine's drone-centric defense may not miss it the way it once would have.
For three years, Russia glide-bombed Ukraine in escorted pairs. Now Ukraine is glide-bombing Russia the same way.
High-flying escorts are protecting Ukraine's glide bombers from Russian jets. It's a familiar tactic.
Ukraine’s $50,000 drone just did what only $500,000 munitions could
Ukrainian drone-maker Fire Point has tweaked its iconic FP-1 drone to travel three times as far as before.
Russia sent quad bikes to clear a minefield. Ukraine’s drones did the rest.
Mines blast Russian assault groups from below. To clear a path, one Russian field army modified an all-terrain vehicle.
Ukraine’s newest drones don’t need Starlink. Russia spends $1.5 million to jam it anyway.
Onboard AI lets the newest drones find their own targets—nothing for a jammer to break.
Russia hides its cruise missiles inside drone swarms. A handful of bombers do the rest.
A Tu-22M3 crash in Irkutsk exposes a darker paradox: Russia's bomber fleet keeps shrinking, but Russia's bombing keeps getting smarter.
Ukraine’s newest Abrams brigade just built the “dumbest” tank cage of the war. In 2026, that barely matters.
The 160th Mechanized Brigade is an odd choice to operate some of Ukraine's approximately 50 surviving M-1 tanks.
Russia may soon have more tanks than pre-war. It just can’t use them.
To do it, Russia revived "previously unrecoverable" Soviet engines. The drones that destroyed the originals haven't gone anywhere.