Oil storage tanks in Siberia. Getty Images When the Russian army left behind their raping and pillaging communities around Kyiv, but continued the complete demolition of cities like Mariupol, and the ...
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Ukraine’s Drones Are Peeling Back Russian Defenses On Infamous Snake Island
A Ukrainian TB-2 strikes a Russian Strela-10 air-defense system on Snake Island. Ukrainian defense ministry capture Ukraine’s Snake Island was one of Russia’s first conquests in the wider war between ...
Moscow Accuses Israel Of Supporting ‘Neo-Nazis’ In Ukraine After It Seeks Apology For Lavrov’s Claim About Hitler
Topline The Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday accused the Israeli government of supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine marking a major escalation in a diplomatic row between the two countries after Israel ...
Russian Foreign Ministry Hits Back At Israel’s Criticism Of Lavrov, Accuses It Of Supporting ‘Neo-Nazis’ In Ukraine
Topline The Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday accused the Israeli government of supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine marking a major escalation in a diplomatic row between the two countries after Israel ...
Russia Women To Be Replaced By Portugal At UEFA Women’s Euro 2022
09 April 2022, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bielefeld: Soccer, Women: World Cup qualifying Europe women, … [+] Germany – Portugal, group stage, group H, at Schüco Arena. Portugal’s player...
Ukraine’s Citizen-Soldiers Are Shooting 60-Year-Old Artillery At Russian Tanks
Ukrainian troops train with an MT-12 in 2019. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Ukraine’s territorial troops are true citizen-soldiers. Volunteers all, they enlist with local brigades and fight in their hom...
The Russians Got Caught Faking A TB-2 Drone Shoot-Down
The apparently-staged TB-2 crash from late April 2022. Via social media As Russia’s wider war in Ukraine enters its third month, Ukraine’s small force of Turkish-made TB-2 armed drones continues to pl...
Ukraine’s Artillery Might Be Winning The War With Russia
Ukrainian 2S3 in Donbas in March 2015. OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine photo As Russia widened its war in Ukraine in late February, many observers assumed Russian artillery would dominate t...
In The Shadow Of War, Ukrainians Observe Orthodox Easter
Topline The people of Ukraine observed Orthodox Easter on Sunday, one of the country’s most important holidays in the shadow of a Russian invasion that began exactly two months ago and has resulted in...
The Ukrainians Keep Blowing Up Russian Command Posts And Killing Generals
Wrecked vehicles at a destroyed Russian command post. Photo via social media Eight years ago, a trio of Ukrainian army brigades fighting Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region m...
Too Few Troops, Not Enough Supplies—Russia’s Eastern Offensive Could Be Doomed
An abandoned Russian howitzer in Ukraine. Ukrainian defense ministry photo As Russia’s wider war in Ukraine nears its second month, the Kremlin still hasn’t solved its fundamental military problems. T...
T-72s To The Rescue? Ukraine’s 5th Tank Brigade Could Roll Into Battle Any Day Now.
Ukrainian tanks train in 2021. Ukrainian defense ministry The Ukrainian military’s success in sinking and damaging Russian warships could have a happy side-effect for Ukraine’s war effort on land. The...
IMF Sounds Alarm On ‘Significant Slowdown’ As Ukraine War And Inflation Slam Global Economies
Topline The International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday that global economic growth will be “severely set back” by the fallout from Russia’s war with Ukraine, the effects of which will be felt “far ...
Ukraine Has Mobilized Its Tank Reserves. They’re Already On The Attack.
3rd Tank Brigade troopers with an abandoned Russian T-80. 3rd Tank Brigade photo The Ukrainian army’s 3rd Tank Brigade reportedly has reached the battlefield around Izium, near Kharkiv in eastern Ukra...
Ukrainian Troops Reportedly Fired A Captured Russian Rocket Launcher … Back At The Russians
A Russian TOS-1 in Ukraine. Russian defense ministry photo The Russian army that rolled into Ukraine on the morning of Feb. 24 brought with it some of the world’s most powerful, and indiscriminate, ar...
Russian Bombers Just Carpet-Bombed Mariupol
Tu-22Ms drop unguided bombs on Syria. Russian defense ministry photo Russian air force Tu-22M bombers flew into Ukrainian air space on Thursday and dropped unguided bombs on Ukrainian troops in the be...
Air Cover Might Have Saved Russia’s Cruiser ‘Moskva’
‘Slava’ in 1982. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Early Wednesday morning, the Russian navy cruiser Moskva exploded around 60 miles off the Ukrainian coast near Odessa. The 612-foot, Slava-clas...
The Ukrainians Claim They Damaged A Russian Cruiser
Cruiser ‘Moskva.’ Photo via Wikimedia Commons A Ukrainian navy missile battery reportedly has struck the Russian navy cruiser Moskva off the coast of Odessa, a strategic port city on the B...
Ukrainian Marines In Mariupol Are Out Of Ammo
Russian forces in Mariupol. Russian defense ministry photo via Telegram Mariupol, a Ukrainian port city on the Sea of Azov just 30 miles from Russia, was one of the first and biggest targets of Russia...
Ukrainian Commandos Riding In Speedboats Captured A High-Tech Russian Radar Vehicle
Ukrainian commandos atop their captured SNAR-10M1. Ukrainian army photo via social media In seven weeks of fighting, Ukrainian troops have captured no fewer than 982 Russian vehicles. Among them are s...
Russia Just Lost A Killer Drone Over Ukraine. It Can’t Afford To Lose Many More.
An Orion drone with a Kornet missile. Russian defense ministry capture Ukraine’s Bayraktar TB-2 drones firing tiny guided missiles have wreaked havoc on Russian forces in Ukraine. The Ukrainians aren’...
Ukraine Is Losing Several S-300 Anti-Air Launchers A Week. But It Still Has Hundreds Left.
A destroyed Ukrainian S-300 battery in eastern Ukraine in late March 2022. Russian defense ministry capture Ukraine had around 100 active batteries of S-300 long-range air-defense systems with as many...
A Russian Attack On Odessa Could Be Naval Suicide
‘Saratov’ burns in Berdyansk. YouTube capture Russia had a chance to cut off Ukraine from the sea. It blew it. Now it’s highly likely, however and whenever the war ends, that Ukraine still...
The Ukrainians Have Nearly Destroyed One Of The Russian Army’s Best Regiments
A wrecked BMD near Bucha. Via Twitter user @BarracudaVol1 Eight years ago, an elite Russian parachute regiment played a central role in a massacre of Ukrainian soldiers. Now Ukraine has exacted its re...
To Knock Out Russian Tanks And Survive, Ukrainian Missileers Have Learned To Shoot And Scoot
A Ukrainian Corsar team. Via social media To knock out Russian vehicles, Ukrainian teams lie in wait along roads—sometimes for days—before firing their missiles and sprinting away to their own vehicle...
Ukrainian Attack Helicopters Just Slipped Into Russia And Blew Up A Fuel Depot
Ukrainian Mi-24s set ablaze a Belgorod fuel depot. Social-media captures via Twitter In an incredible feat of airmanship and planning, a pair of Ukrainian Mi-24 attack helicopters slipped across the b...
Ukraine’s Best Tank Brigade Has Won The Battle For Chernihiv
1st Tank Brigade in training in 2021. Ukrainian army photo When a Russian tank army swept southwest from the Russia-Belarus border region into northern Ukraine on the morning of Feb. 24, a single Ukra...
Russia Has Shot Down A Second TB-2. It’s Too Little, Too Late To Stop Ukraine’s Killer Drones.
A TB-2. Ukrainian navy photo As the war in Ukraine enters its sixth week, Ukraine’s Bayraktar TB-2 drones still are in action. We know that because the Russians recently shot down one of the 1,400-pou...
The Ukrainians Are Killing A Lot Of Russian Generals. It Won’t Help To End The War.
Lt. Gen. Andriy Mordvichev. Russian defense ministry photo The Russian force in Ukraine probably includes two dozen generals who act as commanders and deputy commanders for the dozen or so combined-ar...
Ukraine Has Launched Counteroffensives, Reportedly Surrounding 10,000 Russian Troops
Ukrainian defense ministry photo The claims of Ukrainian counteroffensives in the area surrounding Kyiv began more than a week ago. Now we have our first objective observations confirming that, yes, t...
The Russian Army is Running Out Of Trucks For its War In Ukraine
Civilian trucks on a Russian train heading for Ukraine. TikTok capture via Twitter-user @raging545 The Russian army never had enough trucks to sustain a fast-moving invasion force in Ukraine. The prob...