17th Tank Brigade. Via social media The Russian army and its mercenary allies are shoving many of their best remaining forces into the sector around the ruins of Bakhmut, a ruined town in eastern Ukra...
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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...
Ukraine Has Exactly One T-80UK Command Tank. It Just Fought A Dangerous Solo Battle Near Bakhmut.
The 30th Mechanized Brigade’s T-80UK in action. Via social media The Ukrainian army has captured exactly one Russian T-80UK command tank that independent analysts have been able to confirm. That...
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...
Russian Mercenaries’ Human Wave Tactics Push Back Ukrainian Troops In Soledar
Wagner fighters, purportedly in Soledar’s salt mines. Via social media When the Ukrainian army began rotating fresh units into eastern Ukraine in mid-December, the 46th Air Mobile Brigade drew t...
Why Are Mercenaries Driving Russia’s Best T-90 Tank?
A T-90M that the Ukrainian army captured. Ukrainian army photo It seems that Russian mercenary firm The Wagner Group is operating Russia’s best tank, the T-90M. That would be yet another wrinkle in th...
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...
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...
As the Russian Army Digs In, A Pro-Kremlin Mercenary Company Goes On The Attack in Ukraine—And Begs For Credit
The Wagner Group in Ukraine. Via social media Six weeks after the Ukrainian army launched twin counteroffensives in northeastern and southern Ukraine, Russian forces all across the country are digging...