Soldiers from the Ukrainian army’s 14th Mechanized Brigade with a Stugna-P anti-tank missile. Photo via social media Roaming groups of infantry hauling anti-tank missiles, working in the gaps be...
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Ukrainian Drones Are Carpet-Bombing The Russians
A Ukrainian drone bombs a Russian BTR-82. Via social media Look out down below! Ukraine’s tiny, terrifying DIY drones are carpet-bombing Russian forces. Videos that have appeared online in recent week...
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...
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...
This Village In Eastern Ukraine Is A ‘Meat Grinder’ For Two Armies
Ukrainian defense ministry photo The village of Pisky lies mere yards from Russian lines just outside Donetsk, an industrial city of one million that, since 2014, has been under the control of pro-Rus...
Russia’s Artillery Is Wearing Out, And Blowing Up
A Russian army 2S7 howitzer after a barrel-failure. Photo via social media Russian artillery batteries in Ukraine appear to be running low on ammunition as Ukrainian rockets blow up more and more supp...
There’s A Good Reason Russia’s Artillery Is Running Out Of Ammo. Ukraine Keeps Blowing It Up.
A Russian ammo dump burns near Kherson. Photo via social media Russian artillery is falling quiet in Donbas, if observations by NASA’s fire-detecting satellites are any indication. Well, quieter. Batt...
Yard By Yard, The Ukrainians Appear To Be Pushing Toward Kherson
Ukrainian defense ministry photo Don’t get too excited about unconfirmed reports of Ukrainian forces surrounding hundreds, or even thousands, of Russian troops in a town 60 miles northeast of the port...
Ukrainian Missile Crews May Be Creeping Closer To A Key Russian-Held City
The July 19, 2022 shoot-down. Social media capture The Russian air force lost another one of its best fighter planes over Ukraine on Tuesday. The shoot-down of what appears to be a Sukhoi Su-35 could ...
Russian Troops Just Shot Down One Of Their Own Planes. It Was One Of Their Most Precise.
An Su-34 takes off for a strike in Ukraine. Russian state media capture Russian air-defense troops apparently shot down a high-tech fighter-bomber over eastern Ukraine on Sunday. Just one problem: it ...
The Russians Just Shot Down One Of Their Own Best Jets
Su-34s deployed for the war in Ukraine. Russian state television capture Russian air-defense troops just shot down one of the most sophisticated warplanes involved in Russia’s wider war in Ukraine. On...
The Russian Army Is Sending New Recruits To War With Just A Month Of Training
A volunteer battalion with the Russian Northern Fleet’s 200th Arctic Motorized Rifle Brigade trains … [+] for deployment to Ukraine. Russian state media capture Desperate to reinforce its batter...
Ukraine Is Blasting Russia’s Offshore Platforms On The Black Sea
A Neptune anti-ship missile during testing. Ukrainian navy photo The Ukrainian navy last month struck a Russian natural-gas rig on the Black Sea. The attack on the night of June 26 damaged Tavrida, a ...
Ukraine’s American-Made Rockets Are Blowing Up Russia’s Ammo Dumps
Ukrainian HIMARS target a Russian ammo dump in Melitopol on July 3, 2022. Ukrainian defense ministry photo The Ukrainian army systematically is demolishing Russian ammunition supplies. The strategy co...
The Ukrainian Army Retreats In The East, Advances In The South
Ukrainian defense ministry photo Ukrainian forces have retreated from Lysychansk, the last free city in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. The retreat comes weeks after the Ukrainians ...
Ukraine’s Weirdest Howitzer Drove Russian Troops Off Snake Island
The 2S22 in action on the coast. Ukrainian defense ministry photo The Ukrainian army’s rarest artillery played a pivotal role in finally driving Russian troops off strategic Snake Island in the wester...
Ukrainian Troops Gain Ground In The South, Lose Ground In The East. Is The Trade Worth It?
Ukrainian artillery. Ukrainian defense ministry photo The Ukrainian army is closing in on Russian-occupied Kherson in southern Ukraine. Of course, closing in isn’t the same as liberating it. Infrared ...
Russia’s Ancient T-62 Tanks Are On The Move In Ukraine
T-62s in southern Ukraine. Social media capture After losing more than 700 of its best T-72, T-80 and T-90 tanks in Ukraine in the first three months of fighting, the Russian army got pretty desperate...
Ukraine Has Launched Its Southern Counteroffensive
Ukrainian army M-777 gunners in action near Kherson. Social media capture A Ukrainian air force MiG-29 fighter shot down one of the Russian air force’s best jets—an Su-35—near Russian-occupied Kherson...
To Replenish Its Army In Ukraine, Russia Plans To Strip Its Training Units. It Can Only Do This Once.
Russian troops in January 2022. Russian defense ministry photo Before Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his forces to widen their war on Ukraine starting the night of Feb. 23, the Russian army ...
Up To 15,000 Russians Have Died In Ukraine: U.K. Defense Ministry
Ukrainian defense ministry photo The Russian army in three months of fighting has lost as many soldiers killed in action as the Soviet army lost in nine years of warfare in Afghanistan starting in 197...
Putin’s ‘Under Pressure’ Commanders Will Push Unprepared Forces To Donbas, U.K. Defense Ministry Says
Topline Russia will likely hastily redeploy forces from Mariupol to Donbas without time for “adequate preparation” once it has secured the city, the U.K.’s defense ministry said on Friday, as Moscow’s...