“There are no good hands anymore”: Training gaps erode Ukraine’s air defenses
Lack of training time prevents mobilized personnel from mastering air defense systems
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Russian aggression in Europe and in Ukraine in particular.
Ukraine counterattacks as Musk’s Starlink crackdown grounds Russian drones
Russia just lost Starlink access. Now Ukraine has an opportunity to retake lost territory.
Reuters: US pushes Ukraine toward a March peace deal with Russia and unrealistic May elections
The Witkoff-Kushner negotiating team has pressed Kyiv to move fast, warning that Trump will have less political capital for a deal as congressional midterms approach, according to sources familiar with the talks.
Ukraine fired a barrage of Flamingo missiles at Russia’s Oreshnik missile base—and apparently missed
Ukraine's Flamingo cruise missiles are back in action in small numbers. But it seems they missed a very valuable target.
Cheap drones are shredding NATO armor. France just borrowed Russia’s solution
Four years after "cope cages" became a punchline, a French VBCI is wearing their evolved descendant.
Ukrainian brigades detail Starlink crackdown: Russian terminals “became just bricks,” assaults disrupted
Russians forced to look for imperfect backup plans, which should slow down operations
Ukraine dominates the drone war at the front—but Russia owns the sky behind it
A flurry of deep strikes on Russian logistics by Ukrainian FP-2 drones belies a bigger problem: the Russians may be winning the deep drone war.
Behind the black windows: How Kyiv survives a winter in the dark (PHOTOS)
In a city of prolonged blackouts and extreme freezes, survival in Kyiv has become a calculated battle fought with makeshift engineering and a finite supply of luck.
“Modern war requires moving away from infantry warfare”: Ukrainian brigade turns to ground and aerial drones on one of the toughest fronts
At the freezing, contested sector near Kostiantynivka, ground drones now manage most supply tasks once handled by troops, brigade commander Colonel Kulykivskyi says.
How Starlink made Russia’s drones deadlier—and harder to jam
Improved reliability and resistance to jamming make Starlink-equipped drones deadlier and a priority for Kyiv to shut down
Russian troops may have seized their best chance to strangle Kostiantynivka
Fog and rain could help Russian troops sever Kostyantynivka's main supply line. If the city falls, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk are in trouble.
Can Starlink block Russian drones? Yes — but the devil’s in the details
4G modems and stolen SIMs are the gap nobody's closing
Russia’s January assault pace drops just 4% — but its territorial gains fell by half, Deep State says (INFOGRAPHIC)
The OSINT monitoring project reports that while Russia occupied 245 sq km last month — nearly half of December's figure — the overall number of assault operations fell only just.
Ukraine keeps droning Russia’s “penguins”—same unit, same mistake, six days straight
Heat-trapping thermal ponchos can help soldiers hide from heat-sensing thermal drones. But only in the right conditions.
Russia just blew up a fake F-16. The drone flew 200km to do it.
A Rubicon drone flew 200km for this. Ukraine's decoy fleet is just getting started.
France may give Ukraine all 26 Mirage 2000s—none have bombed Russians yet
Ukraine is getting more Mirage 2000s. Will it use the fighters offensively instead of defensively?
Ukraine wrecked Russian bombers with $2,000 drones. US F-35s have the same blind spot
Drone defense absent at key US bases, including where 75% of world's F-35 pilots train
Russia’s top general claims over 500 km² seized in Ukraine in January — ISW says it’s only 265
The Russian military command has been boasting about seizing small rural villages to push the false narrative that Moscow's victory is inevitable.
A Russian soldier dressed as a penguin was doing a pretty good job avoiding thermal drones
Desperate to hide from heat-sensing drones, Russian troops are wearing some pretty silly thermal camouflage. But silly isn't the same as ineffective.
Ukraine will build 7 million drones in 2026—and it still won’t be enough
Manufacturing volume has roughly doubled every year since 2023