Three years after deadliest battle in Donbas, official investigation skims over guilt of Ukrainian command
The investigation into the responsibility of Ukrainian commanders is highly important not only for the sake of historical…
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Zapad-2017: military games with an unpredictable ending
Just weeks remain until the joint Russian-Belarusian military exercises Zapad-2017 take place. It is expected that they will be held…
Under our noses, Russia has geared up for a western offensive
In the last few months, I have repeatedly warned about Putin’s shifting approach to Russia’s involvement in eastern…
Russian outpourings into the Caucasus
It is restless again on the Russian Federation’s (RF) southern border. This unrest should not be a surprise…
Why did the Russian-militant forces attack Krasnohorivka? Latest flare-up in Donbas, explained
The last week in Ukraine was marked by a sudden announcement by the chief of the unrecognized "Donetsk…
The forgotten war in Donbas. Ceaseless fighting in eastern Ukraine, explained
For the fourth year in a row, Ukraine is fighting an undeclared war with Putin’s Russia. But it…
Is Russia getting ready to launch a nuclear strike from Crimea?
“For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the United States recognizes that Russia poses…
The Russian war against Ukraine by the numbers
There is no “Ukrainian crisis,” as so many in Moscow and the West continue to say; there is…
Meaningfully deterring Russia is NATO’s best option for European security
In Western official discourse, NATO-Russia relations are often analyzed by wishful thinking rather than by accepting realities. It…
Ukraine re-thinking its approach to Donbas war. Key things to know
After more than three years which have passed since the start of the war in eastern Ukraine, the…
Russian diplomats Chisinau expelled reportedly recruited Gagauz to fight in Ukraine
The identification of a pro-Moscow Ukrainian who fought against Kyiv in the first months of Moscow’s war in…
How Ukraine can open its door to NATO
Ukraine’s top priority needs to be its domestic policy. Success at home will determine the rest, including strengthening…
What can Ukraine offer NATO?
Is Ukraine a recipient, or contributor to regional security? Recently, there have been speculations that Ukraine is becoming…
Moscow heavily involved with ISIS and other terrorist groups, Ukraine tells NATO
In the not so distant past, the United States government would have taken the lead in exposing Russian…
Ukraine is in a state of war with Russia – and Kyiv needs to say so, Sungurovsky says
The Ukrainian government continues to call its fight against the Russian invasion of the country “an anti-terrorist operation,”…
Moscow planning to send 60,000 Muslim troops to Syria, Saudi newspaper says
Citing unnamed “informed sources,” a Saudi newspaper says that “Russia has prepared approximately 60,000” predominantly Sunni Muslim soldiers…
To annex Donbas, Moscow would have to destabilize Ukraine by attacking elsewhere, experts say
Just as Moscow opened the way to its annexation of Crimea by undermining Ukrainian positions in the Donbas,…
Russia can no longer afford a blue water navy, defense minister suggests
Sergey Shoygu, Russia’s defense minister, says that Moscow will still build submarines – a giant one was launched…
‘Spetsnaz of the USSR’ – the new Russian irregulars in Syria now fighting for Assad
The Syrian military does not have enough personnel to simultaneously launch major attacks, suppress militants, and garrison cities…
West fails to recognize nature and scope of Putin’s hybrid war against it, Eidman says
Many in the West have “the wrong idea about how the Russian manipulation machine works,” Igor Eidman says,…