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The Kremlin is trying to force US President Donald Trump to abandon his announced 10-day deadline for ending the war in Ukraine. This is stated in the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not make concessions on his military goals unless he is forced to do so by major victories for Ukraine on the fr ...

Russian forces have advanced northeast of Siversk, geolocated video footage released on July 27 shows. The Ukrainian brigade that repelled the attack ...

Russia is also using the ongoing internal protests in Ukraine as a weapon to undermine Ukraine’s legitimacy and discourage Western support. T ...

Ukrainian Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal said that Ukraine's Defense Industrial Base (DIB) could absorb additional investments of $6 billion and t ...

US President Donald Trump announced a large-scale and rapid delivery of military aid to Ukraine through NATO. On July 14, during a meeting with NATO ...

The Kremlin continues to use the aggressive rhetoric of Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, to undermine Western militar ...

The Russians are increasing drone attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine and, according to analysts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the ...

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 ...