Ukrainian resistance adapts to key role in counteroffensive
Article by: Yuri Lapaiev Source: Jamestown Foundation On July 19, the Ukrainian Armed Forces conducted a strike on…
Ukraine’s manpower requirements reaching critical threshold
Article by: Hlib Parfonov Source: Jamestown Foundation Following Ukraine’s successful Kherson counteroffensive in the fall of 2022, the…
The role of the Union State of Russia and Belarus in the Russo-Ukrainian war
In September 2023, Russia and Belarus are scheduled to carry out the joint military exercises Union Shield 2023,…
Russo-Ukrainian war should doom the “5+2” negotiations on Moldova’s Transnistria
Keeping the 5+2 process alive must be deemed inconceivable after Russia’s re-invasion of Ukraine. Yet, some process-addicted diplomats…
Wagner PMC recruits Russian criminals and convicts for war in Ukraine
On August 14, the Ukrainian town of Popasna (Luhansk Oblast) was hit by US-produced and Ukraine-operated M142 HIMARS…
Putin’s next miscalculation: Russia’s readiness for a long war
As Russian aggression against Ukraine approaches the half-year mark and combat operations appear to be at a standstill,…
Will the Kremlin send new ‘savage divisions’ to Ukraine?
The Russian full-scale re-invasion against Ukraine, launched in February 2022, was initially explained as the desire for “denazification”…
The Bystre Canal across the Danube: ‘mosquito’ tactics in Ukraine’s grain shipping
On July 9, the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority announced the opening of the Bystre Canal on the mouth…
Is a military coup expected in Russia?
However, an influential group is informally forming in the country that has authority among the “pro-Putin majority” and…
Moscow turns to regions to replace losses and boost forces in Ukraine
The center is devoting enormous resources to both now that the spring draft is ending, but problems persist…
Russian assault on world order falters and fails
Russian military command announced an “operational pause” in Donbas after the hard battles for Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, implicitly…
Seeking to crack Western unity, Putin sinks Russian economy
On the Donbas battlefields, Russian troops still strive to advance, but in the global arena of confrontation with…
NATO’s new Strategic Concept gives short shrift to Eastern Neighborhood and Ukraine
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) new Strategic Concept, approved at the summit just held in Madrid, strongly…
Challenges to Russian arms resupply: tanks, combat aviation, artillery ammunition
After more than four months of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, open-source data confirms that the Russian Armed Forces…
Dealing with the naval blockade of Ukraine: A diversity of views
The issue of Russia’s naval blockade of Ukrainian ports, which severely hampers the export of Ukrainian agricultural commodities,…
Inter-ethnic animosity saps effectiveness of Russia’s army in Ukraine
Russia’s 2022 re-invasion of Ukraine has damaged not only bilateral relations between the two majority–Eastern Slavic neighbors but…
Missiles and escorts: Unblocking Ukraine’s ports on the Black Sea
From the beginning of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war, the Russian Black Sea Fleet moved in to block or…
Macron’s Ukraine diplomacy runs into a Kremlin wall
French President Emmanuel Macron held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy…
German security assistance to Ukraine perpetually on hold (Part 2)
An itemized list of Ukraine’s latest request for German security assistance has found its way into two major…
German security assistance to Ukraine perpetually on hold (Part 1)
Germany ranks among the top arms-exporting countries worldwide. However, it is withholding lethal security assistance to Ukraine and…
