Russian soldier proudly shows off his tank’s drone defense: tubes of decorative plant clay
Not all Russian anti-drone improvisations actually work. For instance, tubes full of clay. They're 'useless,' one expert claimed.
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Russian aggression in Europe and in Ukraine in particular.
Russia’s winter campaign was supposed to freeze Ukraine, split its grid, and stop its factories. None of it worked, ISW says
With the campaign now over, Russia is preparing strikes on Ukraine's water supply — a shift ISW calls an implicit acknowledgement of failure, while warning that lessons from the energy campaign could be applied to water infrastructure, which shares similar Soviet-era vulnerabilities.
Ignoring the counteroffensive to its north, a Russian field army grinds toward Verkhnia Tersa
Despite the chaos all around it, the Russian 5th Combined Arms Army is determined to capture a key Ukrainian fortification in the southeast.
Not enough Patriot missiles to stop 60 Russian Iskanders a month. The Iran war is draining what’s left.
Ukraine's only defense against ballistic attacks became a whole lot harder to obtain
Four Ukrainian combat veterans sent to NATO drills ended up teaching 13 armies how drone war actually works
New details from Hedgehog 2025 show Ukraine's Nemesis crew improvised everything — because nobody on NATO's side had a plan.
Ukraine’s Mirage 2000 fighters finally go on the offensive
Ukraine's speedy ex-French fighters have been on the defensive for an entire year. That may be changing. But are there enough bombs?
The Russians massed 100,000 troops to take the last free cities in Donbas. One hill bars the way
Whether Hill 207 holds could decide Russia's planned offensive on the last strongholds of free Donbas
Everyone doubted Ukraine’s Flamingo missile. It just blew a hole in a major Russian missile factory
The Flamingo cruise missile was supposed to intensify Ukraine's deep strikes on Russian industry. Months late, it may finally be happening.
Kyiv’s winter survival gear: headlamps, EcoFlows, and a rock on the stove
Amidst freezing temperatures and Russia’s systematic infrastructure strikes, Kyivans have developed specialized toolkits of DIY engineering and adaptive routines to maintain their homes.
Ukraine’s southeastern counteroffensive is now recapturing villages Russia once firmly held
Penetrating the Russian line, Ukrainian assault troopers liberated a village that was once under firm Russian control.
From Kalashnikov’s engineers to Kamov’s designers — 1.2 million Russian arms workers just lost their anonymity
An interactive map of 6,088 defense factories, released by hacktivists on the invasion's anniversary, exposes the personal data behind Russia's war machine.
Frontline in Ukraine reduced to “robotic kill zone,” Zaluzhnyi says
Robots now conduct assaults as the number of troops physically able to operate in the combat zone keeps shrinking, Ukraine's former commander-in-chief said.
Russia wants 428 tanks a year by 2028. Its “second factory” is taking them apart instead.
There are reasons to believe Russia doesn't have two factories producing new tanks. It has just one.
“What broke your heart in service?” Ukrainian soldiers answer on war’s fourth anniversary
A wounded man shot himself during an assault. The reason and his last words will stay with his unit forever.
She lived in Europe for years and came back to Kyiv for week. Returnee says Ukraine’s reality is not what you read about in news
She arrived from warm, well-lit Europe to renew documents, and within a few hours, she was hearing explosions…
Russia used Belarus’s cell towers to bomb Ukrainian power plants. Then hackers got inside the operators’ chatrooms
For six months, Ukrainian IT specialists watched Russian drone operators plan routes in real time — tracking launch orders and flight paths, feeding everything to Ukraine's defense forces.
Russia rushed reinforcements to its fracturing southeast. They rode in unarmored and in broad daylight
Two weeks after Russian communications collapsed, Ukrainian troops are still counterattacking—and inflicting heavy losses on the Russians.
Bilateral deals for Washington, maximalist war aims for Moscow — ISW maps the Kremlin’s two-track play
While Lavrov blamed Ukraine and the EU and railed against Western security guarantees, Kremlin officials were at the same time calling on Washington to lift “illegal” sanctions and calculate the price of frozen US–Russian commerce.
A Ukrainian gun ‘bot saw a Russian soldier in the dark. He couldn’t see it back.
In a nighttime clash with a lonely Russian trooper, a gun-armed Ukrainian ground robot had the upper hand
Kyiv robbed Pokrovsk to save Zaporizhzhia. The gamble is paying off
When Ukrainian forces fell back a short distance north of Pokrovsk recently, it was the result of a deliberate choice in Kyiv: to prioritize a counteroffensive farther south.