The Institute for the Study of War - Archives from 2026/02/18/58621

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 ...

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 ...