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Media: Ukrainian forces operate against Wagner mercenaries in Sudan

The Kyiv Post obtained footage displaying Ukrainian special forces elements questioning apprehended mercenaries from Russia's Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) in Sudan, the media reported on 5 February.

byMichelle Bondar

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Moscow promoting ever more military programs for ever younger school-age groups

In a sign that the Putin regime is preparing for the militarization of Russian society over the long…

byPaul A. Goble

Putin-backed legislation will make official the status of Russian passports as an instrument of the country's military aggression and annexation strategy. (Credit: depositphotos)

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Putin-backed citizenship legislation tips his plans of more aggression and annexation

If the leader of any other country proposed new citizenship legislation that would give his government the power…

byPaul A. Goble

Collage of Vladimir Putin in front of a sign stating "Crimea is Russian land" (RFE/RL Graphics)

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For Putin, it’s all about Crimea

After several months of Russian statements that the country’s security depends on obtaining guarantees that Ukraine and other…

byVitaly Portnikov

Fighters of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the forests of Volyn. According to the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, the UPA was the only military force in World War II to define its strategic goal as the creation of an independent Ukrainian state; therefore, the soldiers were ready to fight against all countries that tried to prevent the formation of an independent nation. UPA organized and waged anti-German campaigns throughout the entire period of German occupation. Whole Ukrainian regions were freed from German occupation … where so-called ‘insurgent republics’ were created … UPA engaged in guerilla attacks against the Polish forces that were trying to restore the pre-war borders of Poland. The UPA fought against the Soviet Union as their primary opponent.

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It took Red Army ‘a decade’ to subdue Western Ukraine after 1945, Russian specialist on Ukraine warns Kremlin

Anyone thinking about a Russian invasion of Ukraine today should remember that it took the Red Army at…

byPaul A. Goble

T-72B3M tanks of Russia's 126th Coastal Brigade based in occupied Crimea outfitted with special cage armor intended to protect from Javelin anti-tank missiles supplied to Ukraine by the United States. Photo from Russian social media

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Russia seeks to maintain its global status by making threats and keeping others off guard, Shevtsova says

Russia is “attempting to maintain its global role with military threats to undermine the status quo at any…

byPaul A. Goble

Dressed as Russia in a blood-stained outfit and holding a national flag, a woman chained herself to a Lenin statue in Novosibirsk, Russia to protest deteriorating human rights and increasing poverty. The large sign attached to the flag says: "I Am Dying." Three smaller signs hanging off the chain crisscrossing her body say: "Police," "Fear" and "Censorship." August 22, 2017 (Photo: Alyona Martynova / Sib.fm)

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

Left: Hitler announces the Anschluss of Austria on the Heldenplatz, Vienna, Austria on 15 March 1938. (Image: Wikipedia) Right: Putin speaking in occupied Sevastopol to celebrate 18 March 2014 anschluss of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine conducted by Russian military and special forces. May 9, 2014 (Image: kremlin.ru)

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Putin doesn’t live in a parallel reality but revels in his ability to speak and act in this one with impunity, Portnikov says

Many who hear Vladimir Putin’s most outrageous statements or see his most aggressive actions are inclined to say…

byPaul A. Goble

Putin, the Russian defence minister Sergey Shoygu (R) and chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov at the Zapad 2021 military exercises. Belarus, 13 September, 2021. (Photo: kremlin.ru)

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For Russia’s rulers, war now a defining ‘principle of reality,’ Pavlovsky says

For the 30 years of the existence of the Russian Federation, the Kremlin has increasingly gotten involved in…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian airborne forces participate in Zapad 2021 exercise in Kaliningrad (Source: Joint Forces)

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Zapad 2021 suggests, in event of war, Moscow could seize Baltics but lose Kaliningrad

Military exercises not only make known what a government believes could happen but become an occasion for its…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Putin Propaganda (Image Credit: PREDICTHISTUNPREDICTPAST.BLOGSPOT.COM)

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Putin better reflects underlying Russian values than does the opposition and his system will thus outlast both, Pastukhov says

That makes him successful at retaining power, the London-based Russian analyst says, especially since the opposition refuses to…

byPaul A. Goble

Local troops of Putin's Youth Army on parade in the city of Sochi, 2017. The Russian Defense Ministry founded the "Youth Army" troops for children from 8 to 18 years old in 2016. (Photo: privetsochi.ru)

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‘Russia may cut itself off completely from the West,’ Sergey Medvedev says

What is already taking place, the HSE scholar says, is the formation of “a medieval strata-based society” where…

byPaul A. Goble

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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…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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The thorny road to the Kremlin’s desired Yalta-2021

In turn, Western leaders, including US President Joseph Biden and his Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, have been…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

World War III: Putin's hybrid war against Western democracies using the Russian secret services, propaganda journalism and corruption of foreign elites.

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Russian Aggression

Advisor to Russian Defense Minister warns of ‘mental war’: who is waging it and against whom?

A particularly telling point made by the Russian military advisor was that, “If in classical wars the goal…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Russia's only aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov on its way to Syria in October 2016 to participate in Putin's campaign to defend the dictatorial Assad regime. (Photo: social media)

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Moscow’s plans for new kind of aircraft carrier unlikely to be realized

In late February, TASS reported that Russian designers have come up with “a new class of ship.” The…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Militarization of children in Russia-occupied Crimea. (Source: arc.construction)

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Stolen childhood: Russian propaganda and militarization of Crimean youth

On December 7, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UNGA) adopted the resolution “Problem of the militarization…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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UNGA vote on militarization of Crimea highlights Moscow’s international isolation on Ukraine, Portnikov says

“Of these 17,” writes Portnikov, “three are members of [Russia’s] Eurasian Economic Union [which has five members –…

byPaul A. Goble

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What if Russia wins in Ukraine? Consequences of Hybrid War for Europe (Part 2)

In part one, I conceptualized the Hybrid War. I argued that it is a long term strategy, aimed…

byHans Petter Midttun

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Russia may get a new aircraft carrier but only one of Soviet design and only in 10 years

Now that Vladimir Putin has signaled that he wants Russia to have a new aircraft carrier, officials are…

byPaul A. Goble