The Institute for the Study of War - Archives from 2025/07/07/62938

Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be trying to increase volunteer recruitment among the Russian population, possibly due to declining domest ...

Russian forces have recently advanced northeast of Pokrovsk and may try to advance towards Dobropilya as part of efforts to encircle Pokrovsk and bypa ...

US Patriot air defense systems remain crucial to Ukraine's ability to defend itself against Russian ballistic missile strikes. This was stated ...

Russia carried out its largest combined series of strikes of the war on the night of June 28-29, launching over 500 missiles and drones against Ukrain ...

Russian forces are increasingly using "Shahed" drones to strike Ukrainian targets on the front line, analysts from the Institute for the Stu ...

The Kremlin continues to downplay social and economic costs of Ukraine war and inflated military spending. This is stated in the daily analysis of ...

Satellite images of several Russian armored vehicle repair plants show that Russia continues to rely on the restoration of its Soviet-era armored vehi ...

US President Donald Trump told a press conference at the NATO summit on June 25 that Russia may have territorial ambitions beyond Ukraine. This is in ...

Russian troops continue to strike in the northern and eastern parts of Ukraine. But the Armed Forces of Ukraine are counterattacking and holding back ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered to mediate in negotiations between Iran and Israel after the start of the war between the two countries o ...

Russian forces carried out the third largest combined drone and missile strike against Ukraine since the start of the war on the night of June 16-17. ...

Cutting US military aid to Ukraine will not lead to lasting peace in Ukraine, nor will it force Russian President Vladimir Putin to reconsider his pla ...

The Kremlin is working to increase the number of North Korean labor migrants in Russia, possibly to bolster the Russian workforce and directly join th ...

It seems that the Kremlin is trying to leverage the prospect of bilateral arms control talks with the US to extract preemptive concessions from them r ...

A senior Ukrainian official has reported that the Russian military intends to seize half of Ukraine by the end of 2026. It is unlikely that Russian fo ...

The Ukrainian news agency ArmyInform reported on June 5 that an unnamed NATO official stated that Russian forces are suffering average casualties of 1 ...

The Kremlin has used the recent train derailments in Russia to reiterate long-standing claims that Ukraine is an illegitimate negotiating partner and ...

Russia continues to produce and stockpile missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles with which to strike Ukraine. This shows that Moscow continues to s ...

Russian troops are advancing in three districts of Sumy region and are trying to approach the regional center with the help of artillery and cannons. ...

Russia is forcing Ukraine to make concessions regarding the time, conditions and place of the negotiations. This is what the Institute for the Study o ...

Reports by Western media and sources close to the Kremlin about Moscow's demands for an end to the war in Ukraine coincide with repeated public state ...

The Kremlin is setting conditions for establishing permanent control over the occupied Zaporizhia NPP (ZAPP), suggesting that it plans to annex additi ...

Ukrainian intelligence continues to assess that the Kremlin is committed to its military goal of achieving the complete surrender of Ukraine and is pr ...

Senior Russian officials continue to deny the legitimacy of the Ukrainian president, government and constitution, as well as the sovereignty of Ukrain ...

It is possible that the Russian military is prioritizing recruitment as part of a longer-term effort to create a post-war strategic reserve for a pote ...