Browsing Tag
Military build-up
41 posts
Daily review: Russia deployed 75% of its troops against Ukraine; full-scale invasion ‘unlikely,’ risk of local attacks
Past 24 hours in the war zone Escalation and disinformation continue. On 19 February, Russian-controlled forces launched 136…
Russian troops massed around Ukraine now ready for ‘various offensive scenarios’: digital sleuths
[editorial]As all eyes are on the east-Ukrainian Donbas region, Russian troops massed around Ukraine continue preparing for a…
Daily review: Day of Unity; €1.2 bn loan to Ukraine; Israel torpedoes Iron Dome sale
Past 24 hours in the war zone On 15 February, Russian hybrid forces launched four attacks on Ukrainian…
Daily review: US sends more Javelins; US, UK, others urge their citizens to leave Ukraine, resultless Normandy talks
Past 24 hours in the war zone Russian hybrid forces launched eight attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donetsk,…
How weapons from allies would help Ukraine fend off Russia’s invasion
Javelins on combat alert in Donbas Ukraine received its first Javelin man-portable anti-tank missiles from the US a…
Russia builds up troops near Ukraine for blackmailing, not invasion, ex-DNR hostage Stanislav Aseyev believes
Starting from 2015, Stanislav Aseyev worked for different media in his hometown of Donetsk, wring his op-eds mostly…
Daily review: US, NATO reject Russian demands; half of Ukrainians ready to join territorial defense
Past 24 hours in the war zone On 25 January, Russian-hybrid forces launched five attacks on Ukrainian positions…
Russia moving “significant parts” of its far-eastern military units towards Ukraine: digital sleuths
Read also: Military buildup registered at nearly half of Russian bases at Ukraine’s border in late 2021, satellite…
Russia downscales demands to keeping Ukraine, Georgia out of NATO
Commenting on the negotiation process with the US, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Russia was ready…
Daily review: Germany keeps blocking arms exports to Ukraine; Russia moves troops to Belarus; another false-flag warning
Past 24 hours in the war zone JFO reported one attack by Russian hybrid forces near Pisky, Donetsk…
NATO and Russia agreed to talk more at Brussels talks
Read also: 58% Ukrainians support joining EU, 54% in favor of NATO, IRI Ukraine poll finds NATO Secretary-General…
Shuttering Memorial – part of Kremlin’s preparation for expanded war against Ukraine, Chubais says
The Kremlin almost certainly decided to move against Memorial now lest that human rights group serve as a…
Daily review: Court freezes Poroshenko’s assets; Latvia to send weapons to Ukraine; Christmas in Ukraine
Past 24 hours in the war zone Russian-hybrid forces launched four attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donetsk, Luhansk,…
Daily review: Turkey “ready” to mediate Donbas talks; 200 Ukrainian military to get training in military colleges of 13 countries
Past 24 hours in the war zone Ukraine’s east On 30 December, Russian-hybrid forces launched four attacks on…
Russia’s military buildup on Ukraine’s border “on par” with that of April, say online sleuths
On 10 November, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the US was concerned that Russia might…
Russia prepares for Zapad 2021, keeps heavy armed forces close to Ukraine
On June 2, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Moscow had withdrawn around 10,000 troops from the border…
Defense reform in Ukraine: The leadership challenge
The latest “National Security Strategy of Ukraine” was approved on September 14, 2020 (see EDM, September 24, 2020),…
Outreach to Putin, crackdown on Medvedchuk: A hard stretch for Zelenskyy
At the same time, however, Zelenskyy persists with his quest to meet personally with Putin in order to…
Russia’s Armed Forces test combat readiness close to Ukraine’s border
On April 30, Army General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the General Staff, said the exercises involved over…
New reservists law in Ukraine: A forced step forward
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, the reserve system reforms introduce a number of key changes (Army Inform,…