Russia has long depended for its successes on its ability to intimidate by instilling fear in its opponents. That was the basis of its successful run in ice hockey that was ended when the US team in 1980 was led by a coach who told his...
Anton Herashchenko, advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, announced that the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine recently launched a hotline for families, relatives, and friends of Russian soldiers who have been captured by...
The first local defense units emerged in Ukraine in 2015. However, these were neither part of the armed forces nor had any central headquarters. Ukraine’s Territorial Defense volunteers prepare to support army in case of Russian...
The news about Germany’s move was reported by Ukraine’s Minister of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov in his commentary for Financial Times. On 6 December 2021, Reznikov told CNN that “We don’t need American or Canadian...
Nonetheless, the UASOF still suffers from some obstacles on its road to superior combat readiness. Chief among them is a lack of financing, which is common to the entire Armed Forces. Despite its small size compared to Ukraine’s...
The latest “National Security Strategy of Ukraine” was approved on September 14, 2020 (see EDM, September 24, 2020), months overdue; and the “Military Security Strategy” was only adopted on March 25, 2021 (see...
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, the reserve system reforms introduce a number of key changes (Army Inform, April 22): Help reduce the time needed to reinforce the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) and other military formations since...
Several reasons were put forward to try to explain the springtime Russian buildup; and any or all of them may have played some role. According to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, three of these motives potentially included: (1)...
Originally published by Jamestown.org on November 9, 2020 From the earliest days of war in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, some bloggers and security experts noted key similarities between the situation in the temporarily occupied...
The Azerbaijani military’s use of Bayraktar TB2 medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UAV), purchased from Turkey, played such a prominent role in Baku’s victory over Armenian forces during the...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
