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Russian Aggression

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Russian aggression in Europe and in Ukraine in particular.

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Frontline report

Frontline report: Ukrainian hackers turn Russian security cameras into targeting systems for missile strikes

Ukrainian forces discovered massive Russian troop concentrations by infiltrating security camera networks near key bases, then launched preemptive strikes that destroyed entire convoys before they reached the battlefield.

byReporting from Ukraine

frontline report ukraine takes out russia’s radars one crimea—now bayraktars free fly kill again reporting ukraine's video s-400 surface-to-air missile systems blinded boats exposed drone strikes have returned skies over

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Frontline report: Ukraine takes out Russia’s radars one by one in Crimea—now Bayraktars are free to fly and kill again

With S-400 surface-to-air missile systems blinded and boats exposed, drone strikes have returned to the skies over Crimea.

byReporting from Ukraine

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Ukraine could get a lot more French Mirage 2000 fighters

More ex-French Mirage 2000s means more critical aerial jamming capability for the outnumbered Ukrainian air force.

byDavid Axe

Six Prominent Ukrainian Russia Critics Silenced Through Assassination

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Six outspoken Ukrainian voices assassinated for anti-Russian position in Ukraine

From a Crimean Tatar activist to an elite intelligence officer and former parliament speaker, each killing bears Russian fingerprints that demonstrate Moscow's deadly reach inside Ukraine.

byVira Kravchuk

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

To make a Flamingo missile, pack in old bombs & add a tiny engine

The Flamingo missile's best features are under its skin. Powerful and affordable, the missile could change the deep-strike math for Ukraine.

byDavid Axe

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Frontline report

Frontline report: Russian drone factories now staffed by teenagers as adult workforce collapses

Students recruited from technical schools now live in guarded dormitories at the Alabuga complex, working under surveillance with punishments for errors and reports of forced overtime.

byReporting from Ukraine

Staff of penal colony IK-10 in Mordovia, where Ukrainian POWs have been tortured. Illustration: InformNapalm.

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Russian Aggression

33 Russian guards, medics, commanders: InformNapalm links POW abuse in Mordovia to named Russian staff

The OSINT publication exposes those allegedly complicit in systematic violence against Ukrainian captives at IK-10 colony.

byYuri Zoria

425th Assault Regiment troopers apply identification tape.

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

A fearless Ukrainian trooper posed as Russian, got close—and then opened fire

Identities can be unclear along the porous front line in Ukraine. That's an opportunity for cold-blooded ambushes.

byDavid Axe

A Ukrainian soldier carries an FPV drone.

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

When a building is full of Russians, send in an FPV drone first!

One Ukrainian regiment is attaching explosive drones to its infantry squads—to help clear Russians from buildings.

byDavid Axe

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Russian marines rushed to save the Pokrovsk offensive—HIMARS had other ideas

Russian reinforcements rolling toward Pokrovsk made a fatal mistake. They traveled in armored vehicles—and within range of Ukraine's HIMARS.

byDavid Axe

A screenshot from the RFU News – Reporting from Ukraine YouTube video.

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Frontline report

Frontline report: Ukrainian marines raise flags in recaptured settlements as Russian units withdraw in Donetsk Oblast

The operation began when Ukrainian special operations forces cleared Russian infiltrators from Andriivka and raised their unit flag before the broader counteroffensive commenced.

byReporting from Ukraine

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Ukraine’s “lucky” spy ship hid for 42 months. A Russian drone boat finally found it

Russia has explosive drone boats, too—now Ukrainian ships and planes are no longer safe from surface attack.

byDavid Axe

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Frontline report

Frontline report: Ukrainian tanks destroy Russian infiltrators point-blank after river crossing near Lyman

Geolocated footage captured the entire sequence as thermal drones monitored a Ukrainian tank systematically destroying each building where Russians had taken shelter

byReporting from Ukraine

Russo-Ukrainian war Romania intends to collaborate with Ukraine on developing R-360 Neptune anti-ship missiles. The partnership aims to control Black Sea waters post-war.

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Ukraine’s missile crews are valuable targets now

Ukraine's Neptunes and other long-range cruise missiles pose a growing threat. So Russia is targeting them on the ground.

byDavid Axe

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

This American-made missile is Ukraine’s cheap refinery smasher

Ukraine needs harder-hitting deep-strike munitions. Lots of them. The American ERAM might be just the thing.

byDavid Axe

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Frontline report

Frontline report: Ukraine blew up Russia’s only nitrocellulose plant—no backup for gunpowder supply

A Ukrainian drone strike destroyed the Kotovsky plant in Tambov, Russia’s sole source of nitrocellulose powders for shells and rockets.

byReporting from Ukraine

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Ukraine’s defense tech leader challenges western strategic assumptions

FPV drones kill up to 70% of Ukrainian troops, yet NATO armies plan readiness for 2031.

byPeeter Helme

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Ukraine’s missiles could cut off the $ 9 billion Putin uses to pay soldiers

Russia pays new soldiers bonuses worth $4,500 each. Strikes cutting 17% of refining output threaten the funds that cover them.

byDavid Axe

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Frontline report

Frontline report: Ukrainian drones strike 1,300 kilometers deep into Russia, torching Shahed storage depots in Tatarstan

The Yelabuga factory has become too dangerous to staff, with few technicians willing to work at Russia's largest Shahed assembly plant under repeated Ukrainian strikes.

byReporting from Ukraine

Ukrainian soldier Vladyslav sits in his wheelchair at the hospital, communicating through written notes after Russian forces cut his throat during torture and left him in a pit with corpses of other killed Ukrainian fighters, thinking he was dead. The 33-year-old National Guard soldier survived and crawled for five days to safety.

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Russian War Crimes

Russians captured him, cut his throat, and left Ukrainian POW to die. He survived and wants revenge for tortured comrades

National Guard soldier Vladyslav was dragged into a basement near Pokrovsk and watched how the Russians tortured seven Ukrainian defenders before they slashed his own throat and dumped him in a pit with their bodies, thinking he was dead. He was not.

byVira Kravchuk