The Institute for the Study of War - Archives from 2025/09/29/71591

Russia's statement of intent to advance in the Kharkiv region testifies that it has not given up its territorial ambitions regarding Ukrainian lan ...

According to reports, the administration of US President Donald Trump has approved the first arms package for Ukraine through the initiative, which al ...

Russian Security Council Chairman Dmitry Medvedev directly threatened Finland, stating in an article for the TASS news agency on September 8 that the ...

The Kremlin continues to deny the White House's statements regarding the prospect of a meeting between the United States, Ukraine and Russia in th ...

The Kremlin appears to have launched a coordinated information campaign in which it demonstrates military power on the battlefield to influence Wester ...

A German source told Reuters that Ukrainian officials had warned their German counterparts on August 13 that Ukrainian intelligence assessed that Russ ...

On the night of August 27-28, Russia killed at least 21 civilians, including children, and damaged civilian infrastructure and European diplomatic fac ...

Russian forces recently penetrated Ukrainian defensive positions in two border towns in the Dnipropetrovsk region, but have not established permanent ...

Russian residents in border regions are increasingly apathetic towards the war and assume that Russia will not agree to an end to the war in the near ...

Russian authorities recently detained the acting vice governor of Kursk Region, Vladimir Bazarov. This is likely part of the Kremlin’s ongoin ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with NBC confirmed the Kremlin's explicit rejection of the US-proposed peace initiatives in ...

Russia is insisting on having the right to veto any Western security guarantees for Ukraine - in an attempt to thwart ongoing US and European efforts ...

On August 12, Russian forces continued to penetrate Ukrainian defensive positions east and northeast of Dobropil (northwest of Pokrovsk) with sabotage ...

US President Donald Trump has expressed his willingness to facilitate substantive peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in an effort to achieve lasti ...

Some Russian commentators are seeking to sow discord in the Trump administration, possibly as part of a broader effort to avoid US sanctions ahead of ...

Russian head of state Vladimir Putin has deliberately put himself in a position where he cannot present any peace agreement that does not meet his ori ...

The Russian authorities are not ready for any compromises within the framework of the negotiation process to end the war if they do not envisage the c ...

The Kremlin has yet to give a coordinated response to US President Donald Trump's August 1 order to deploy two US nuclear submarines closer to Rus ...

The Kremlin continued its nuclear threats against the US ahead of the ordered deployment of US nuclear submarines on August 1, demonstrating that Medv ...

US President Donald Trump has set an August 8 deadline for his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to begin talks to end the war in Ukraine. On July 29 ...

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 ...