Russo-Ukrainian War (2014-present)

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Russia has a missile stockpile only for two more massive attacks; needs two months to produce missiles for one attack — Ukraine’s spy chief

The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov Russian Federation…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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The unsung heroes of the first battle for Kherson

Kherson residents remember 1 March 2022 as one of the most tragic days in the history of their…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Retreating Russian troops leave death and destruction in villages of Kherson Oblast (photo report)

As Russian troops withdraw from towns and villages in southern Kherson Oblast, Ukrainian soldiers are confronted with the…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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“Children arrived with bits of shrapnel in their scalps.” Ukrainian doctors recount horrors of Bucha

Ukrainian doctors Olha and Andriy Svyst were recently invited by the President of Ukraine to receive the National…

byChristine Chraibi

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2024

Ukrainian Army officers under 32 explain the meaning of Independence

More and more often, young officers are moving up in the ranks and taking command in the Armed…

byUkrainian media sources

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Former Russian athlete serving in the Ukrainian Army killed in Donetsk Oblast

Olha Simonova, call sign “Simba”, from Cheliabinsk, Russian Federation was killed in a landmine explosion during a combat…

byChristine Chraibi

Russian soldiers are pictured at the Wagner military base in Popasna, Ukraine, with the address clearly visible on a plaque in the top left corner, resulting in a deadly mid-August attack (Source: Sergey Sreda)

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Wagner PMC recruits Russian criminals and convicts for war in Ukraine

On August 14, the Ukrainian town of Popasna (Luhansk Oblast) was hit by US-produced and Ukraine-operated M142 HIMARS…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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The West is running out of weapons it can supply Ukraine. NATO or a coalition of the willing needs to intervene

24 February 2022 was only yet another phase, the war started in 2014 Tomorrow, political leaders and media…

byHans Petter Midttun

Putin meeting with members of the Russian Federation Security Council at the Kremlin on February 21, 2022, three days before Russia started the full-scale military invasion of Ukraine (Photo: kremlin.ru)

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Putin’s next miscalculation: Russia’s readiness for a long war

As Russian aggression against Ukraine approaches the half-year mark and combat operations appear to be at a standstill,…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Exhumation of a mass grave with bodies of Ukrainian civilians tortured and murdered in cold blood by Russian troops in Bucha, Kyiv Oblast. April 2022. Photo: open source

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Seeking a diplomatic agreement with Putin is amoral, senseless and dangerous, Russian analysts say

Two of Russia’s more thoughtful analysts, Vladislav Inozemtsev and Aleksandr Skobov, argue in separate commentaries that seeking an…

byPaul A. Goble

The town of Borodianka in Kyiv Oblast was destroyed by Russian troops. April 2022. The Russo-Ukrainian War. Credit: Dattalion

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Russian forces in Ukraine have destroyed almost 60 times more civilian facilities than military ones, Kyiv says

Over the first five months of Putin’s war in Ukraine, Russian forces there have destroyed 17,300 civilian buildings…

byPaul A. Goble

Putin approval rating by Russians from 8-1999 through 7-2022 per Levada Center

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Most Russians increasingly optimistic about what war in Ukraine says about Russia’s future, Levinson says

A new Levada Center survey shows that the percentage of Russians who think the country is on the…

byPaul A. Goble

Anti-Putin Russian activists abroad waving modified Russian flags symbolizing opposition to their country's aggressive war against Ukraine (Photo: twitter.com/newrusflag)

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Even ‘good Russians’ should stop being invited to discussions about Ukraine and, if invited, should shut up, ‘Grani’ editors say

A month ago, Olha Rudenko, editor of The Kyiv Independent, posted on Facebook a comment about an unfortunate…

byPaul A. Goble

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For Russians, their war in Ukraine is still ‘a TV war’ not directly involving them, Fedorov says

Today what is happening in Ukraine is for most Russians “’a special operation on television,’” VTsIOM director Valery…

byPaul A. Goble

Ukrainian Grandma Resists Russian invasion and learns to shoot a gun

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Opinion

Ukraine’s secret to resisting Russia: resilience

Many continue to report on the war as it is a conventional war that started on 24 February…

byHans Petter Midttun

Troops from Chechnya in Ukraine. Credit: Gur.gov.ua

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Will the Kremlin send new ‘savage divisions’ to Ukraine?

The Russian full-scale re-invasion against Ukraine, launched in February 2022, was initially explained as the desire for “denazification”…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Russian nationals Igor Girkin (aka "Strelkov") as "DNR defense minister" and Alexandr Borodai as "DNR prime minister" in summer 2014 during the initial invasion of Ukraine. Screenshot and captions by ukranews.com

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Is a military coup expected in Russia?

However, an influential group is informally forming in the country that has authority among the “pro-Putin majority” and…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Soldiers of the National Guard of Russia (aka Russian Guard), a 500,000-strong internal security structure subordinated to Putin personally

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Moscow turns to regions to replace losses and boost forces in Ukraine

The center is devoting enormous resources to both now that the spring draft is ending, but problems persist…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Putin meeting with top government members via videoconferencing on July 8, 2022 (Source: kremlin.ru)

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Russian assault on world order falters and fails

Russian military command announced an “operational pause” in Donbas after the hard battles for Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, implicitly…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Hitler and Putin collage (Source: social media)

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Putin using Kaliningrad exactly the way Hitler did when it was called East Prussia, Skobov says

In the late 1930s, Hitler demanded the opening of “a Polish corridor” to Germany’s East Prussia, triggering a…

byPaul A. Goble