Topline Russian units suffering “heavy losses” in Ukraine have been forced to return to Belarus and Russia to “reorganize and resupply” as logistical problems continue to plague Moscow’s offensive, th...
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Russia Sends More Mercenaries To Fight In Ukraine’s East, Per U.S. And U.K. Officials
Topline Russia has sent more than 1,000 mercenaries from the private military company known as the Wagner Group to fight in eastern Ukraine, according to British and U.S. officials—the latest maneuver...
The Ukrainian Army’s Helicopter Crews Could Be in Big Trouble If Russia Attacks
A Ukrainian soldier assigned to 1st Battalion, 80th Air-Mobile Brigade lies in the prone position to … [+] provide coverage for an air-assault mission in conjunction with a situational training ...
Why The Latest Russia Crisis Might Be Worse For Berlin Than Moscow And Kyiv
Russia and Ukraine are at it again, says the U.S. Kyiv tells Washington to cool it, and not to … [+] panic. Russia investors are bailing. And German investors are ignoring the noise. KMR Images ...
One Of Ukraine’s Best Brigades Defends One Of Its Most Vulnerable Cities
92nd Mechanized Brigade Photo via Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian government this month put into effect a new law creating a framework for everyday civilians to join territorial defense battalions. Ar...
Kiev Could Mobilize 130,000 Volunteers To Fight The Russians
The Ukrainian Volunteer Corps in 2014. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Eight years ago, everyday Ukrainians—thousands of them—formed volunteer battalions, grabbed whatever weapons they could find and race...
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...
Ukraine’s Giant Howitzers Have A Problem. Russia’s Own Huge Guns Are Faster.
A Ukrainian 2S7. Ukrainian army photo Seven years ago, the desperate Ukrainian army—relentlessly pummeled by Russian artillery along the front line in Ukraine’s separatists-controlled Donbas region—op...
If Russia Invades Ukraine, Its Front-Line Air-Defenses Will Be The Most Dangerous In The World
Russian army Tunguska vehicles in training. Russian defense ministry photo In early May 2014, separatist rebels and their Russian backers in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region shot down three Ukrainian M...
Russia’s Armored Mine-Clearers Can Blast Entire Streets. They’ve Done It Before.
a UR-77 launches its mine-clearing line charge. Konstantin Lazarev photo via Wikimedia Commons If Russian President Vladimir Putin pulls the proverbial trigger and the Russian army currently massed al...
The Russian Army’s Huge Engineering Vehicles Could Carve Paths Across Ukraine
A BAT-2 in Donbas in 2019. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, the likeliest battleground in the event Russia widens its eight-year war on Ukraine, is...