At the start of March, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces stated that the Russian military casualties exceeded 150,000. Meanwhile, several reports indicate that Ukrainian military casua...
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Russia Doubled Its Army In 2022. But Its Casualties Doubled, Too.
Mobilized Russian marines after they were captured outside Vuhledar. Via social media Kremlin officials knew as early as last spring that they had a manpower problem. Russia’s wider war in Ukraine the...
It’s Possible 270,000 Russians Have Been Killed Or Wounded In Ukraine
Russian graves. Thom Quine photo At least 200,000. As many as 270,000. That’s how many Russian troops have died, been wounded or gone missing in the first 11 months of Russia’s war in Ukraine, accordi...
Ukraine’s Drones Keep Hitting Russia’s Bomber Bases. Now Russian Missile Crews Are Getting Jumpy.
A Russian air force Su-27 in 2016. Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian military on Dec. 29 apparently sent more explosives-laden drones to strike a Russian air force base outside Moscow. It was at least t...
To Survive Ukraine’s Air-Defenses, Russian Pilots Fly Low And Lob Rockets. It Might Not Be As Inaccurate As It Seems.
Russian air force Su-25s firing unguided rockets over Ukraine. Via social media It’s one of the weirdly iconic images of the Ukraine war: Russian and Ukrainian helicopters and attack jets flying low o...
Bakhmut Is ‘Soaked In Blood’ As Eight Of Ukraine’s Best Brigades Battle 40,000 Former Russian Prisoners
Volodymyr Zelensky in Bakhmut. Office of the president of Ukraine Russian mercenary firm The Wagner Group since this summer has been trying, and so far failing, to capture the town of Bakhmut in easte...
Russia’s Shadowy Mercenary Air Force Is Losing More And More Jets In Ukraine
A Russian air force Su-24M in 2009. Alexander Mishin photo via Wikimedia Commons The Sukhoi Su-24M supersonic bomber that was shot down and crashed practically on top of Ukrainian positions outside Ba...
The Russian Army’s Terminator Vehicles Are Heavily Armed, Highly Protected … And Far Too Few To Matter
A BMP-T near Svatove. ANNA New capture Arms-maker Uralvagonzavod manufactured only 10 or so high-tech BMP-T Terminator fighting vehicles for the Russian army. This spring most, or all, of the heavily-...
Ukrainian Scouts Were In Their Foxholes Near Bakhmut When A Russian Bomber Came Crashing Down
The wreckage of a Russian Su-24 bomber near Bakhmut. Ukrainian army photo A Ukrainian army reconnaissance battalion was directly below when, on the night of Dec. 2, allied forces around Bakhmut in eas...
Ukraine Pulled Ex-Soviet Recon Drones Out Of Storage, Added Bombs And Sent Them Hurtling Toward Russia
An ex-Soviet Tu-141 variant in storage in Moscow in 2012. Alan Wilson photo The drones that Ukrainian forces used to strike two Russian bomber bases 300 miles inside Russia on Monday weren’t the satel...
Ukrainian Drones Just Took Out A Russian Heavy Bomber 300 Miles From Ukraine
A damaged Russian air force Tu-22M bomber following the Dec. 5 drone raid. Via social media For ten months, the Russian air force’s heavy bombers have bombarded Ukrainian cities with impunity, lobbing...
The Ukrainian Army Captured Dozens Of The Russian Army’s Old T-62 Tanks—And Is Now Sending Them Back Into Battle
An ex-Russian T-62 in Ukrainian colors. Via social media After losing a thousand of its best T-80 and T-72 tanks in Ukraine, the Kremlin early this summer began pulling 50-year-old T-62s out of long-t...
Russian Soldiers Are Freezing To Death In Eastern Ukraine
Russians huddle in a trench as a drone bomb explodes among them. Via social media The Ukrainian army has deployed some of its best brigades to eastern Ukraine, including the 92nd and 93rd Mechanized B...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Personal Brigade Is Fighting One Of the Ukraine War’s Hardest Battles
A 1st Presidential Brigade trooper near Bakhmut. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Officially, it’s the mission of the Ukrainian national guard’s 1st Presidential Brigade to defend the leader of Ukrain...
Some Of Russia’s Last Good Troops Needed Three Weeks To Capture A Half Square Mile Of Eastern Ukraine
53rd Mechanized Brigade artillery in action. 53rd Mechanized Brigade The Kremlin is determined to capture all of Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. The oblast after all is the seat of ...
Russian Soldiers Are Surrendering To Ukrainian Drones. This Has Happened Before.
Russian prisoners in Ukraine. Via social media Firing missiles, dropping tiny bombs and spotting targets for artillery, the Ukrainian army’s drones undoubtedly are responsible for hundreds, if not tho...
A Russian Regiment Reportedly Lost 2,500 Draftees In Just Two Weeks Of Fighting
An abandoned Russian T-72B3 near Svatove. 92nd Mechanized Brigade The Ukrainian army’s 92nd Mechanized Brigade is killing Russian draftees as fast as the Kremlin can shove the unhappy, unfit conscript...
Easily In Range Of Ukrainian Artillery, Kherson’s Airport Was A Death Trap For Russian Troops
Chornobaivka Airport burns on March 16, 2022. Maxar Three days after the Kremlin ordered its starving, battered forces to retreat from the right bank of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine’s Kherson ...
The Russians Sent Their Slow Attack Jets On Virtual Suicide Runs
Russian air force Su-25s. Wikimedia Commons The six Russian air force brigades and regiments flying the twin-rotor Kamov Ka-52 attack helicopter probably have suffered the highest casualty rate of any...
Fly Low, Get Aggressive—How Ukrainian Pilots Fought The Russian Air Force To A Standstill
Russian Su-35 aircraft intercept a P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft assigned to U.S. 6th Fleet over the Mediterranean Sea on May 26, 2020. U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa For all its profound faults, the...
How The Ukrainians Wrecked the Russians’ Best Helicopter Regiments
A Kamov Ka-52 and pilot. Russian state media It’s not totally accurate to describe the Russian air force’s Kamov Ka-52 attack helicopters as death traps. But it’s not totally inaccurate, either. The a...
As Bombs Rained Down, Ukrainian Troops Set A Trap For Russia’s Pilots
Russian air force Sukhoi Su-25s. Via Flickr The air war over Ukraine could have gone either way in the first few weeks of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of the country starting in late February. The Rus...
Biggest Defeat For Russia In A Generation As Starving Troops Flee Across A Key Ukrainian River
Ukrainian forces in Kherson Oblast. Czech T.V. capture The Kremlin has ordered its forces to withdraw from the city of Kherson on the Black Sea coast in southern Ukraine. The order comes eight months ...
The Russians Have Lost Nearly 300 Aircraft Over Ukraine—Mostly Drones
A Russian fighter burns after being shot down over Ukraine in March 2022. Via social media Ukrainian troops have brought down 278 Russian aircraft in the eight months since Russia widened its war on U...
Russian Marines Are Getting Killed And Wounded By The Hundreds In Ukraine
The 40th Naval Infantry Brigade in happier times. Russian defense ministry photo. In April 2021 the Russian navy’s 40th Naval Infantry Brigade, based on the Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Russia,...
The Russian Army Appears To Be Pulling Out Of Kherson
Ukrainian troops with M-113 personnel carriers. Ukrainian defense ministry photo A city bus, rolling unimpeded past a military checkpoint in the Russian-occupied city of Kherson on or before Thursday,...
Ukrainian Saboteurs Reportedly Blew Up Russian Helicopters 500 Miles From Ukraine
A Kamov Ka-52. Wikimedia Commons Russian air force regiments flying the service’s Kamov Ka-52 attack helicopters have been having a difficult war. It just got a lot more difficult. Ukrainian air defen...
The Russian Black Sea Fleet May Have Lost Another Flagship
‘Admiral Makarov.’ Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian navy for months has been hunting the Russian navy frigate Admiral Makarov. It seems the Ukrainians finally got a shot at the 409-foot, mi...
The Russian And Ukrainian Armies Brace For The Dreaded ‘Wet Cold’ Winter
A Ukrainian tank in the Donbas mud. Ukrainian defense ministry photo There are two winters in Ukraine. The first, in the final couple months of the year, are cold—but not cold enough for a deep freeze...
12,000 Russian Troops Were Supposed To Defend Kaliningrad. Then They Went To Ukraine To Die.
The 11th Army Corps in 2017. Russian defense ministry photo Six years ago, the Russian navy formed a new army corps whose job it would be to defend Kaliningrad, Russia’s geographically separate outpos...
A Fierce Ukrainian Mechanized Brigade Is Routing Russian Mercenaries In One Symbolic Eastern Town
The 93rd Mechanized Brigade around Bakhmut. Photo via the Ukrainian general staff When Ukrainian forces launched twin counteroffensives in eastern and southern Ukraine starting in late August and earl...