Vadym Voroshylov parachutes to Earth following his October battle with Russian drones. Instagram photo via the Ukrainian defense ministry An accomplished photographer and videographer, Maj. Vadym Voro...
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Ukrainian tailor shop was a front for illegal crypto mining
A tailor shop located in Ukraine was illegally mining cryptocurrency and was shut down by local authorities. Law enforcement discovered that a tailor shop located in Kovel — a city located in the Voly...
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’s Drones Spell Danger For A Vast Swathe Of Russia As New Airbase Strike Reported
The Ukrainian strikes which we reported yesterday on Russian airbases 400 miles inside Russian territory have huge implications for this conflict. Now social media reports describe a fresh drone attac...
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...
In Eight Years, Russian Agents Blew Up 210,000 Tons Of Ukrainian Ammo—And Nearly Silenced Kyiv’s Artillery
Ukrainian defense ministry photo Russia hasn’t done a lot right in its 10-month-old wider war on Ukraine. But it did at least one thing right before the war. A systematic Russian sabotage campaign tar...
Anticipating A Russian Attack, The Ukrainian Army Doubled Its Artillery
A Ukrainian army BM-21 rocket-launcher. Ukrainian defense ministry photo In Soviet ground-warfare doctrine, which both the Ukrainian and Russian armies largely still follow, artillery is the decisive ...
Anticipating A Russian Attack, The Ukrainian Army Trained Its Tank Crews To Fight Like Artillery
Ukrainian army 17th Tank Brigade. Ukrainian army photo Ukraine’s tank corps wasn’t ready for the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014. The Ukrainian army’s two tank brigades and 10 mechanized b...
Russian Trenches In Southern Ukraine Are Too Short To Stop A Ukrainian Attack
Ukrainian artillery. Ukrainian defense ministry photo It’s been three weeks since Ukrainian brigades forced Russian troops across the wide Dnipro River in southern Ukraine, liberating Kherson city and...
Ruslan Baginskiy Launches Crystal Edition Where Hat Accessories Meet Jewelry
The Ruslan Baginskiy Crystal Edition hat embellished with one of the six crystal accessories in the … [+] set. Ruslan Baginskiy Buzzed about Ukrainian milliner Ruslan Baginskiy has created an ex...
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...
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...
The Ukrainian Navy Still Has One Big Amphibious Ship. She’d Be Pretty Useful Right About Now.
‘Yuri Olefirenko’ in happier times, before the current war. Ukrainian navy photo There might be just one big ship left in the Ukrainian navy—the amphibious landing vessel Yuri Olefirenko. ...
The Ukrainian Army’s Helicopters Sat Out The Last Campaign. They Sure Aren’t Sitting Out This One.
Ukrainian army Mil Mi-8s. Ukrainian defense ministry photo It was an open question, as Russian forces massed along Ukraine’s borders in late 2021 and early 2022, whether the Ukrainian army’s helicopte...
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...
Ukrainian Territorials Are Wearing Down Russian Defenses In Zaporizhzhia. Are They Preparing For A Counteroffensive?
A 110th Territorial Brigade trooper. 110th Territorial Brigade A few videos circulating online and depicting the goings-on in one Ukrainian army reserve brigade are not definitive evidence of a coming...
How The Ukrainian Army Could Get Behind The Dnipro River And Roll Up Thousands Of Russian Troops
Ukrainian troops pass each other. Ukrainian defense ministry The Dnipro River is the biggest natural obstacle in all of Ukraine. Running north to south through major cities including the capital Kyiv,...
Ukrainian pro-crypto groups announce Web3 roadmap
Blockchain4Ukraine — a group of pro-crypto Ukrainian lawmakers — and the citizen group Virtual Assets of Ukraine (VAU) revealed a joint roadmap for promoting and developing Web3 in the country. The do...
Kherson’s Liberation Is The ‘Beginning Of The End’ Of War With Russia, Zelensky Says
Topline In an unannounced visit to Kherson Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the city’s recent liberation—following Russia’s announcement it was retreating last week—the “beginning...
A Strategic Strip Of Sand. Rumors Of Ukrainian Raids. As Russian Forces Retreat, Keep An Eye On The Kinburn Spit.
Kinburn Spit. Google Maps The Kinburn Spit is a narrow finger of sand and scrub, barely three miles long, that juts from the wider Kinburn Peninsula into the Black Sea at the mouth of the Dnipro River...
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 Dnipro River Poses A Large Challenge For The Ukrainian Counter-Offensive
Last week, the Russian military decided to abandon the city of Kherson and retreat to the east bank of the Dnipro River. As part of the operation, they destroyed or damaged every major river crossing ...
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...
Russia’s Retreat From Kherson Is Complete As Strategic Bridge Into The City Collapses
Topline Russia on Friday said its forces had completed their withdrawal from the key city of Kherson—one of the first major Ukrainian cities captured by Russian troops—but the collapse of a strategic ...
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 ...
Russia’s MiG-31 Crews Are Shooting At Ukrainian Pilots From A Hundred Miles Away—And The Ukrainians Can’t Shoot Back
A MiG-31 pilot. Russian state media It’s no secret the Russian air force has failed to achieve air superiority in the sky over Ukraine. Hamstrung by inflexible procedures, desperately short of precisi...
Four Days After A Ukrainian Drone Assault, Russia’s Black Sea Flagship Is Still Afloat
‘Admiral Makarov’ in 2018. Russian defense ministry photo The Ukrainian drone assault on Sevastopol, the home port of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, may have damaged one of the fleet’s two best...
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 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...
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...
Russia’s Desperate Fort-Building In Eastern Ukraine Won’t Stop The Ukrainian Counteroffensive
Russian defenses outside Hirske. Via social media A Russian mercenary firm is building a line of anti-tank obstacles across eastern Ukraine. The Wagner Group earlier this month began laying parallel l...