Economic sanctions remain one of the most powerful tools the United States has in its foreign policy arsenal. And as Russian forces continue to amass along the border with Ukraine, officials in the U....
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Ukraine Hit By ‘Massive Cyber Attack’ As Russia Mobilizes Troops Near Border
Topline A “massive cyber attack” has taken multiple Ukrainian government websites offline and left messages warning the public to “prepare for the worst,” a foreign ministry spokesperson a...
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...
A Russian Invasion Of Ukraine Would Have Profound Implications For International Energy Markets
TOPSHOT – A Ukrainian serviceman fires at Russia-backed separatists during night combat on the front … [+] line near Novolugansk in the Donetsk region on November 14, 2019. – Althoug...
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...
‘Emily In Paris’ Is Offensive, Says Ukraine’s Culture Minister
Lily Collins in ‘Emily in Paris’ on Netlix. STEPHANIE BRANCHU/NETFLIX Emily in Paris on Netflix NFLX is again facing criticism for its stereotypical representations. Ukraine’s Cultur...
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...