The Institute for the Study of War - Archives from 2026/02/09/68610

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 ...

Russian forces are using low-cost fixed-wing "Molniya" (Lightning) drones equipped with Starlink satellite terminals to impose a battlefield ...

China continues to provide crucial support to the production of weapons in Russia, including Oreshnik missiles and Shahed long-range drones. This w ...

Moscow is trying to reach an agreement with the United States on its demands on Ukraine in exchange for normalizing US-Russian relations, analysts fro ...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made a statement in which he hinted that the Kremlin is using its participation in the ongoing negotiations with the U ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to use US President Donald Trump's Peace Council to lift the freeze on Russian assets in order to stimu ...

The Kremlin has drawn up a list of five candidates to represent the ruling "United Russia" party in the State Duma elections in September 20 ...

European countries appear to be taking tough measures against oil tankers linked to the shadow fleets of Russia and its allies. The Ukrainian army ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to show that he will not be satisfied with a peaceful settlement of the conflict, which concerns only Ukrai ...

The Russian offensive slowed in late December 2025 and early January 2026, likely due to less favorable winter weather conditions and the end of effor ...

Preliminary unconfirmed reports indicate that Russian forces may have launched a strike with the hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM ...

The US Coast Guard has seized two oil tankers linked to Russia for attempting to evade US sanctions on Venezuelan oil. On January 7, US officials c ...

The Russian army continues its offensive on the front and does not give up its intention to seize more territories. This is what analysts from the Ins ...

Russian forces increased their average speed of advance in 2025 thanks to a new operational model, supported by technological adaptations and a change ...

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has not registered any confirmation of Russia's claims about the alleged Ukrainian strike on Vladimir Put ...

The Kremlin's latest statements contradict several of the positions that Trump presented as the basis for ending the war. The Kremlin has repeated ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has explicitly stressed his continued commitment to his maximalist military goals in Ukraine – the same goals t ...

The Council of the European Union confirmed that European countries and the United States will provide "solid" security guarantees to Ukrain ...

The Kremlin is setting conditions for rejecting the Ukrainian and European peace plan. It previously rejected key points of the US-proposed 28-point p ...

Ukrainian forces continue to advance in and near Kupyansk, and more details about the counteroffensive have emerged. This is reported by the Instit ...

The Ukrainian counterattack in Kupyansk shows that the army is capable of defending itself and counterattacking against significant Russian attacks. ...

The Kremlin reacted positively to the recently published US National Security Strategy (NSS). Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that the & ...

American and Ukrainian officials have indicated that the 28-point peace plan initially announced by the United States is not final and is currently be ...