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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

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All news about the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2022.

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Russian Easter vodka binges delayed Ukraine’s covert bomber-killing drone strike, SBU reveals

The Security Service of Ukraine originally planned the operation for early May, but Russian drivers' Easter drinking binges forced a delay for a month

byVira Kravchuk

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

A mystery drone helped Ukraine’s Su-27 wipe out Russian paratroopers with American JDAMs

The recently revealed Privet-299 drone could help extend the robotic kill zone by tens of kilometers from the front line.

byDavid Axe

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

“I don’t know what they report to you, Mr. President” — Ukraine hero explodes at Zelenskyy as Russia nears Pokrovsk

Russian troops are advancing past empty Ukrainian trenches. Do Ukraine’s leaders really understand the scale of the breach?

byDavid Axe

A 155th Mechanized Brigade Leopard 2A4 in Pokrovsk.

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Ukraine’s Leopard tanks rush to Pokrovsk—100,000 Russians wait to spring the trap

The battered coal-mining village is the last barrier between Russian forces and Pokrovsk’s encirclement.

byDavid Axe

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Ukraine’s Liutyi drone warhead grew by 50%—at the cost of 400 km of range

Something changed in Ukraine’s long-range drones. Their targets are suffering more damage, and the answer might be in the payload.

byDavid Axe

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Russia found 1,000 old tanks in Siberia—they miss when they move, but it’s all that’s left

Russia’s 1970s tanks are back in style—because everything newer is getting blown up in Ukraine.

byDavid Axe

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Russia’s air force can barely see Ukraine coming

Ukraine’s strikes have cut Russia’s A-50U fleet to just four planes—two or three near the front, and still not enough.

byDavid Axe

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Putin built concrete castles for his bombers—Ukraine’s drones burned them down

Ukraine’s state security agency, the vaunted SBU, has made a bad summer for the Russian air force much worse.

byDavid Axe

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Whatever you do, don’t march with two landmines strapped to your back while Ukrainian drones patrol overhead

Russian engineers are literally telling their troops to walk 20km carrying two anti-tank mines each. Ukrainian drone footage shows what happens next.

byDavid Axe

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Forget steel: Ukraine’s new tank armor is rubber and spikes

Steel once defined tank protection. Now, under constant drone attack, Russia bolts spikes onto its armor while Ukraine wraps vehicles in rubber—a complete rethink of how to survive on the battlefield.

byDavid Axe

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Did Ukraine just unleash its first Bars cruise missiles? A 500 km strike deep inside Russia suggests it

Photos from Stavropol have fueled speculation that Ukraine’s new Bars missiles have entered the war.

byDavid Axe

A scene from the Ukrainian Oscar-winning documentary 20 Days in Mariupol. A journalist Mstyslav Chernov and his Associated Press team remained the last international reporters in the besieged city of Mariupol, risking their lives to capture evidence of Russian war crimes that Moscow dismissed as "fakes."

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Seven Ukrainian war documentaries Russia doesn’t want you to see

These films expose Russian war crimes and showcase Ukrainian resilience through stories of survival, volunteering, art creation amid destruction, and resistance that directly contradict Moscow's propaganda about Ukraine.

byVira Kravchuk

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

The Russians creep toward Siversk, losing tanks on the way

A Russian tank column rolled into a bloody disaster outside Siversk in eastern Ukraine. But Moscow's troops are still advancing.

byDavid Axe

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Hawk missiles are old but reliable. Ukraine wants every one of the 40,000 America has stockpiled

To strengthen Ukraine’s air defenses against Russia’s growing missile and drone attacks, the US has approved a new deal that taps into a vast Cold War missile stockpile.

byDavid Axe

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Russia’s last tank yards go dark as every inch in Ukraine demands more sacrifice

Russian workers are pulling the last Soviet tanks from storage yards that used to hold hundreds. The math is unsustainable.

byDavid Axe

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Ukraine has a secret jet drone that Russia still can’t see—and it’s back

Ukraine has a jet-propelled stealth attack drone. We’ve just spotted the mysterious UAV for the second time since 2024.

byDavid Axe

An Australian M-1 being craned onto a ship.

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Ukraine just got 49 new Abrams tanks—but the tank war is already over

The first of up to 49 fresh M-1 Abrams tanks have arrived in Ukraine. What will the Ukrainian military do with the 69-ton, four-person vehicles with their thick armor and 120-mm guns?

byDavid Axe