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 ...
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Ukrainian Troops Are Pushing Back The Russians In The South
Ukrainian artillery in action. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Ukrainian troops appear to be advancing toward Russian-occupied Kherson in southern Ukraine. Their progress overall is slow, but seeming...
This Old Ukrainian Howitzer Got Captured Then Recaptured
A recaptured 2S3. Via social media. As Russia’s wider war in Ukraine grinds into its fourth month, some weaponry has changed hands more than once. Captured then recaptured. Some of the first evidence ...
With New Guns And Long-Range Rockets, Ukraine Is Transforming Its Artillery. But Maybe Not Fast Enough.
An ex-Norwegian M-109 howitzer in Ukrainian service. Ukrainian defense ministry As many as a hundred Ukrainian soldiers die every day in the battle for eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, Ukrainian Defen...
Ukraine’s Cinemas, Museums And Theaters Start Reopening As Russia’s War Targets Cultural Sites
Topline The Theater on Podil in Kyiv, Ukraine, reopened over the weekend for the first time since Russia invaded the country, the Associated Press reports, marking the latest cultural institution in U...
Ukraine Isn’t Just Getting American-Made Killer Drones. It’s Getting A Whole System For Remote Warfare.
An MQ-1C with Hellfire missiles. U.S. Army photo The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden plans to offer to Ukraine the General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle, the U.S. Army’s best unmanned aerial veh...
As Russians Advance In The East And Ukrainians In The South, Moscow And Kyiv Want Different Things
Russian troops entering Severodonetsk. Russian government capture The Russian army and its separatist and mercenary allies appear to have entered Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine, possibly signaling t...
Ukraine Made Just A Handful Of Speedy T-84 Tanks. Now They’re On The Front Line.
A T-84 ‘Oblot,’ possibly in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian army photo Ukraine produced just five or six copies of one of its best tanks—the T-84 Oplot. That’s enough for just one platoon. But ...
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...
Giant Artillery Opens Fire As Russia Goes On The Attack In Donbas
A Russian 2S4 mortar in Donbas. Telegram user @epoddubny capture Fighting has sharply escalated in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. Both sides are bringing in more and heavier artillery, adding to the...
The Russians Are Throwing Everything They’ve Got At One Ukrainian Garrison
Russian paratroopers in Popasna. Social media capture With a thunderous artillery barrage, the Russian army on Thursday launched its latest offensive in Ukraine. Much of what’s left of the Russian arm...
Russia Lost A Third Of Its Forces In Ukraine. Now It’s Losing The War.
A destroyed Russian tank. Ukrainian defense ministry photo In the 82 days since Russia widened its war on Ukraine, the Russian military has lost a third of its forces, according to the U.K. Defense Mi...
Which Ukrainian Troops Are Getting American Howitzers? The Ones Preparing For A Major Counteroffensive.
Ukrainian troops with an M777. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Ukrainian army brigades have begun shooting their new American howitzers at Russian invaders. And not just any brigades. Ukrainian comma...
One Of The Most Dangerous Jobs In The Russian Navy
A ‘Serna’ landing craft maneuvers to avoid an apparent MAM missile on May 12, 2022. Maxar photo The Russian Black Sea Fleet began the wider war with Ukraine in late February with maybe 11 ...
Ukrainian Troops Appear To Have Fought All The Way To The Russian Border
Ex-Russian T-80 tanks now belonging to the Ukrainian army’s 93rd Mechanized Brigade. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Ukrainian forces around Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, appear to have pus...
Ukraine Made Exactly One Copy Of Its Best Cannon. It Just Joined The War.
The 2S22 in action. Photo via Sergey Pashynsky The Kramatorsk Heavy Machinery Plant, in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, built exactly one 2S22 howitzer around five years ago. As a Russi...
The Ukrainian Army Is On The Attack. This Is How The War With Russia Could End.
Ex-Russian T-80 tanks, captured by the Ukrainian army and delivered to the 93rd Mechanized Brigade, … [+] fire on Russian forces near Kharkiv. 93rd Mechanized Brigade photo The Ukrainian army re...
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 ...
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 ‘Ghost Of Kyiv,’ Who Was Never Real, Just Got Killed In The Press
Photo via Wikimedia Commons The Ghost of Kyiv was a Ukrainian fighter pilot. A lone warrior in the aerial defense of Ukraine’s embattled capital city in the early weeks of the Russian invasion. Deftly...
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...
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...
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 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’...
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...
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...
The Ukrainian Army’s Helicopter Crews Could Be in Big Trouble If Russia Attacks
A Ukrainian soldier assigned to 1st Battalion, 80th Air-Mobile Brigade lies in the prone position to … [+] provide coverage for an air-assault mission in conjunction with a situational training ...
To Resist A Russian Attack From Crimea, The Ukrainian Army Has Deployed A Whole Artillery Brigade
55th Separate Artillery Brigade gunners train near Crimea in February 2022. Ukrainian army capture With more and more Russian battalions, warplanes and warships staging along Ukraine’s borders, analys...
Ukrainian and Russian Su-25 Pilots Alike Face A Potentially Bloody War
Ukrainian Su-25s. Ukrainian air force The war in Ukraine has been brutal for fighter pilots and helicopter crews whose job it is to provide close air support to front-line ground troops. The sheer den...
Ukraine’s Best Fighter Pilots Are Preparing For War. But Will They Fight?
The 831st Brigade during training in January 2022. Ukrainian air force photo The Ukrainian air force is hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned by its most likely foe, the Russian air force. Kiev at best...