On February 24, 2022, Putin unleashed a military attack on Ukraine, without any provocation and without any credible justification. And while on February 24, 2023, the world marks the year of the war,...
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Russian Jamming Fails To Stop More Drone Attacks
Russia extended its attempts to jam satellite navigation systems after the drone attack on Engels Airbase on December 5th. Open-source data show a huge ‘bubble’ of jamming signals around Moscow and se...
Russian Intelligence Detains 8 Suspects Linked To Crimea Bridge Blast
Topline Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) Wednesday detained eight individuals it claims were “accomplices” in the weekend attack on the bridge connecting Russia with the annexed territory of Cr...
Kyiv Hit By Missile Strikes After Putin Blames Ukraine For Crimea Bridge Attack
Topline Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities were hit by a series of missile strikes on Monday morning in an apparent retaliatory attack by Russian forces, a day after Vladimir Putin blamed Ukraine for an ...
Putin Accuses Ukraine Of ‘Act Of Terrorism’ After Crimea Bridge Explosion
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday accused Ukraine of carrying out a deadly explosion that damaged the only bridge linking Russia and Crimea, calling the blast—which Ukraine hasn’t dir...
Watch Russia’s Lone Bridge To Crimea In Flames—Here’s What It Means For Putin’s War Efforts
Topline An explosion set fire to and destroyed sections of Russia’s only bridge to Crimea, isolating Russia and its troops from the critical Black Sea peninsula at a critical moment in the war, though...
Russian Navy Crews Are Under Orders To Avoid The Ukrainian Coast
‘Moskva’ burns on April 13, 2022. Photo via social media The commanders of the Russian navy’s Black Sea Fleet are scared to send their surviving surface warships beyond sight of the Crimea...
The Ukrainians Have Struck Another Russian Airfield In Crimea
The air base at Hvardiiske before the Aug. 16, 2022 raid. Maxar Technologies photo A Ukrainian drone blew up an ammunition dump at a Russian airfield near Hvardiiske in occupied Crimea on Tuesday, acc...
How Did Ukraine Destroy So Many Russian Aircraft At That Crimean Airbase?
The Ukrainian attack on a Russian airfield in occupied Crimea on Tuesday was another unexpected David v. Goliath result, on a par with the sinking of Russia’s Black Sea flagship in April. Some have ev...
A Ukrainian Raid Destroyed A Lot Of Russian Aircraft—And Could Force Russian Squadrons To Pull Back
A wrecked Su-24 at Saki air base on Aug. 9, 2022. Social media capture The Ukrainian attack on a Russian airfield in occupied Crimea on Tuesday apparently destroyed a lot of aircraft. It easily was th...
The Ukrainians Hammered A Russian Air Base 120 Miles From The Front
Tourists react as Saki air base explodes on Aug. 9, 2022. Photo via the Ukrainian defense ministry A Russian air force Il-76 airlifter was rolling down the runway at Saki air base in Russian-occupied ...
The Ukrainian Army Just Blew Up A Russian Ammo Train—The Fourth Of The War
A Russian train hauls T-62 tanks in June 2022. Photo via social media Ukraine continues to escalate its bombardment of Russian supply lines in southern Ukraine. But it might not matter that much in th...
Germany must strike Putin energy deal and Ukraine should give up Crimea
Gerhard Schröder Putin Russia Germany Nord Stream gas energy crisis Crimea Ukraine – Sean Gallup/Getty Images Germany must strike a deal with Putin to avoid an energy crisis this winter and Ukra...
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Needs Boats. Captured Ukrainian Vessels Might Be Just The Thing.
An ex-Ukrainian ‘Gyurza’ in Russian service. Photo via social media The Russian navy’s battered Black Sea flotilla is so desperate for hulls that it’s begun putting its sailors on boats it...
Ukraine Hints At Progress On Crimea, While Both Sides Optimistic On Putin-Zelensky Meeting
Topline Negotiations in Istanbul Tuesday between Russian and Ukrainian delegations sparked optimism, as Ukraine shared proposals for non-military negotiations regarding Crimea and both sides said ther...
Ukraine Is A Small But Mighty Market For Wine
A long history and a diversity of grapes drives the country’s winemaking The Chateau Chizay winery near Berehove in Zakarpattia Oblast Chateau Chizay Tough times for Ukrainians includes the wine indus...
Risk of Russian banks defaulting on debts highest since Crimea
Crisis pushes up risk of Russian banks defaulting on their debts The risk of the Kremlin and its banks defaulting on their debts is higher than at any point since the invasion of Crimea as S&P cut...
Raise A Glass To Ukraine’s Wine History
The eastern European country has a long, respected history of producing wine Early Crimean winemakers Lev Golitsyn Mikhail Vorontsov. Collage: LBortolot The whole world is focused on Ukraine this week...
Ukraine Is Weaponizing Corporations Against Russia—Using Lawfare
Kyiv Territorial Defence unit train on a Saturday in a forest on January 22, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. … [+] Across Ukraine thousands of civilians are participating in such groups to receive basic ...
To Resist A Russian Attack From Crimea, The Ukrainian Army Has Deployed A Whole Artillery Brigade
55th Separate Artillery Brigade gunners train near Crimea in February 2022. Ukrainian army capture With more and more Russian battalions, warplanes and warships staging along Ukraine’s borders, analys...
German Navy Chief Resigns After Saying Ukraine Won’t Get Crimea Back And Putin ‘Probably’ Deserves Respect
Topline Germany’s top naval officer stepped down Saturday following comments he made about Russia, including a call to show respect to Russian President Vladimir Putin and claiming Ukraine would never...
How a Russian invasion of Ukraine could trigger market shock waves
The threat of a devastating European ground war hasn’t done much to rattle financial markets so far, but investors still appear likely to snap up traditional safe-haven assets should Russia attack Ukr...