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.
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Russian aggression in Europe and in Ukraine in particular.
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?
Repeated Russian missile-targeting failures may themselves violate the laws of war
The authors of a new Ukrainian war-crimes framework say the error-or-method question may be the wrong one—and name the evidence that would settle it.
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.
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.
In Kherson, the children still train under the drones
Russia has destroyed 221 of the city's sports venues. Its boxers, rowers, and chess players train in the basements beneath them—and still come home with medals.
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.
Precision missiles hit the coordinates. Investigators ask who was still standing there
A new framework names the pattern in four Russian strikes—and aims at Russia’s standard legal defense.
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.
Crimea’s political prisoners lost their lifeline—because keeping it open would have put more people in prison
The Crimean Solidarity movement backed families of the detained in the occupied peninsula, arranged legal defense, and circulated information that fell outside the official Russian narrative.
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.
Russian troops inch toward Lyman. Drones keep delaying the plan.
Fedorov's middle-strike drones are throttling the supply lines behind the Russian push. Whether they keep doing it without him is the question hanging over Sloviansk.
International monitors confirm Russia’s blockade of occupied Oleshky, where the living starve and the dead go unburied
Four months after Euromaidan Press first reported the siege, the UN, Human Rights Watch, ISW, and the OSCE have all confirmed it. An exiled official says 100 bodies lie unburied in the town's hospital basement.
Russia bet 50 vehicles that the drones would miss. The drones did not miss.
Russian commanders had banned their own vehicles from these roads, knowing what the drones do to them. Then they lined up 50 and sent them anyway.