The Institute for the Study of War

A senior Ukrainian military official predicted that Russia will begin using mobilized personnel on the battlefield in Ukraine from April 1. This is ...

Since the beginning of 2026, Ukraine has posed growing challenges to Russia at the tactical, operational and strategic levels. Ukrainian drone units a ...

Major Chinese oil companies may be interested in buying oil from Russia, which would allow both China and Russia to benefit from the March 12 US decis ...

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu has acknowledged the increasing effectiveness of Ukraine's deep-rear strike campaign against the ...

The ongoing Ukrainian offensive in the Dnipropetrovsk region is likely to limit Russian offensive operations in the Aleksandrovka direction and may so ...

France will reportedly send Ukraine the latest version of the SAMP/T NG anti-aircraft missile system for combat testing against Russian ballistic miss ...

The US has lifted sanctions on Russian oil, which is already on tankers at sea, until April 11, 2026. This is a decision that will support the Russian ...

Ukrainian forces are successfully counterattacking not only in the direction of Oleksandrivka and Hulyaipole, but also in the western part of Zaporizh ...

Ukraine will send an unspecified number of Ukrainian military personnel with experience in shooting down "Shahed" drones to the Middle East. ...

Russia continues to offer no support for Iran, only standard condemnations of the Western aggression that led to the deaths of Iranian Supreme Leader ...

Russian representatives condemned the US and Israeli strikes against Iran on February 28, in line with Russian rhetoric surrounding the Israeli-Irania ...

Russian forces have likely begun artillery and drone preparations on the battlefield for the expected spring-summer offensive in 2026 in the Donetsk r ...

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has observed no evidence of Ukrainian forces in Pokrovsk since late January 2026, indicating that Russian for ...

The fifth year of the war in Ukraine is not off to a good start for Moscow. Recent Ukrainian successes on the battlefield belie Russian threats that t ...

The attack in Lviv, which resulted in the death of a 23-year-old policewoman and the injury of more than 20 law enforcement officers, showed that Russ ...

Kremlin officials and media outlets affiliated with the Putin regime confirmed Russia's unwillingness to compromise after the trilateral talks beg ...

It is unlikely that Russian representatives will deviate from their initial military demands during the upcoming trilateral talks between the United S ...

The Kremlin continues to maintain its claim that the current Ukrainian leadership is illegitimate. In an interview with TASS on February 15, Russian D ...

Kremlin representatives have been constantly reminding Russia of its commitment to its initial military goals in Ukraine to various media sources that ...

Russia's ability to acquire foreign machine tools despite Western sanctions allows the country to increase its production of tank and artillery ba ...

Russia continues to conduct a campaign of “cognitive warfare“, the essence of which is to carry out small attacks across the border in ina ...

The Russian military continues its attempts to install air-to-air weapons on its "Shahed" drones so that these strike drones can evade Ukrai ...

Kazakhstan facilitated the deportation of a Ukrainian citizen to Russia. The Russian investigative project "First Department", which special ...

Russian troops are trying to reproduce for the offensive against Konstantinovka the scheme that they had previously successfully applied in Pokrovsk. ...

Russia is building military infrastructure near the Finnish border, possibly as part of a broader military expansion effort aimed at preparing Russian ...