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Russia’s secret aviation report: fighter jet clipped its own gate, a 500 kg bomb fell on takeoff, a gunship came home with a printer-paper-sized hole. Nine engine failures in three weeksThe 24-incident log covers mishaps around the turn of the year, with 9 involving engine failures across combat and transport aircraft types. -
ISW: Russia has likely begun its anticipated spring-summer 2026 offensive against Ukraine’s Fortress Belt in Donetsk OblastISW assessed on 21 March, adding that Russian forces are unlikely to seize the Fortress Belt in 2026 but will likely make some tactical gains at significant cost. -
Ukrainian drones may have knocked out yet another Russian radar planeBeriev A-50U radar planes are Russia's eyes in the sky. As Ukraine knocks out more of the A-50Us, Russian forces are slowly going blind. -
Ukrainians back diplomacy in principle – but 71% don’t believe it will workDistrust of Russia. Skepticism about Western guarantees. War fatigue rising. The data tells a complex story. -
Russia couldn’t fix its oil revenues. The US Air Force did it.First-half March data show Russia’s fossil fuel revenues up 14%, as the Hormuz closure reversed India’s retreat from Russian crude. -
Ukraine charges ruling-party MP with treason — and the case has two separate tracksOne case targets a 2024 post on the 72nd Brigade allegedly enabling rapid Russian redeployment. Another, court-opened, concerns Bezuhla’s 2021 disclosure of operatives during Wagnergate hearings. -
Ukraine pauses rate cuts as Middle East oil shock rewrites inflation forecastThe NBU had one cut behind it and more planned. Then oil prices spiked. -
Russia’s tanks are back after a year in hiding. Thursday was a massacre.In 2025, Russia parked many of its combat vehicles. Now it may shifting them back into drive for a renewed mechanized push. -
Three years of wartime growth—built almost entirely on government spendingThree years of wartime growth—but the engine is government spending, not a recovering economy. -
Running restricted goods to Russia used to get you sanctioned. Apparently it now gets you unsanctioned.Cleared entities include a Turkish network serving Russian intelligence services and a UAE firm that shipped manufacturing equipment to Russia. -
China sells 62% of Russia’s weapons-making machines. EU sanctions target Kyrgyzstan.18 countries funnel war tech to Russia. The EU's new tool covers one. -
South Korea’s $8 million bet: Ukraine’s postwar railway will look nothing like the Soviet oneAn $8 million Korean grant is funding the blueprint for Ukraine’s break from Soviet-era rails. -
Ukraine’s graphite plant proves Western supply chains can bypass China—one African batch at a timeChinese dumping shut it down. African ore brought it back. -
Killer robots don’t exist yet but Ukraine and Russia are getting closer"We are already deep into practical battlefield autonomy." -
Iran is doing to the US what Ukraine did to Russia — Washington didn’t learn“The lesson is brutal — layered, cheap, scalable, beats exquisite, expensive and finite.” -
Ukraine’s half-month air defense blitz: 27 Russian anti-air assets destroyed, including S-400s, Pantsirs, radars, and EW stationsUkraine's MoD detailed 20-plus confirmed strikes on Russian air defense infrastructure between 1 and 15 March — from front-line oblasts to occupied Crimea and a radar node at Novorossiysk in Krasnodar Krai. -
Why Ukraine may lose a fifth of its harvest—and what two wars have to do with it?Two wars have halved Ukraine’s fertilizer output and spiked import costs 54%. The farm lobby says a 20% harvest loss is likely. -
I defended NATO’s values. I no longer recognize what NATO defends.The Alliance's founding documents haven't changed. Its founding nation has. -
Sanctions finally squeezed Russia’s oil revenues in half. Then Iran sent prices back up—three weeks too late.The Iran windfall arrived three weeks after Q1 closed. Now Moscow is eyeing the war budget. -
9,000 drones, terabytes a day: Ukraine opens battlefield data to allied AI trainersUkraine is a frontrunner in the AI weapon race. One of its advantages: a wealth of battlefield data
