The Institute for the Study of War - Archives from 2026/04/21/58989

Ukrainian and Russian sources have accused each other of violating the short-term ceasefire agreed by the Kremlin during Orthodox Easter on April 11 a ...

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has taken control of seven of Russia's eight pre-trial detention centers (SIZO) as part of the Kremlin& ...

Russia Maintains Major Territorial Goals in Ukraine, Beyond Demands for Ukraine's Withdrawal from Donetsk Oblast. The Deputy Chief of the Ukrai ...

The Kremlin continues to set the stage for possible future aggression against the Baltic states. On April 7, Russian Foreign Ministry (MFA) spokeswoma ...

Russian military bloggers have continued to criticize the ineffectiveness of Russian air defense systems and highlight the impact of Ukrainian strikes ...

The Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) claims that Russian forces have captured the entire Luhansk Oblast for the third time during the war with Ukrain ...

Russia must either agree to a "shameful peace" or decisively defeat Ukraine through a strategic offensive, but that the Russian leadership i ...

Russia is preparing to temporarily halt all gasoline exports from April 1, likely in response to a rise in domestic gasoline prices caused in part by ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked leading Russian businessmen to provide financing for the Russian government. This indicates that the Kremli ...

Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief General Oleksandr Syrsky reported that Russian forces have stepped up ground attacks over the past week, attacking 619 ti ...

A senior Ukrainian military official predicted that Russia will begin using mobilized personnel on the battlefield in Ukraine from April 1. This is ...

Since the beginning of 2026, Ukraine has posed growing challenges to Russia at the tactical, operational and strategic levels. Ukrainian drone units a ...

Major Chinese oil companies may be interested in buying oil from Russia, which would allow both China and Russia to benefit from the March 12 US decis ...

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu has acknowledged the increasing effectiveness of Ukraine's deep-rear strike campaign against the ...

The ongoing Ukrainian offensive in the Dnipropetrovsk region is likely to limit Russian offensive operations in the Aleksandrovka direction and may so ...

France will reportedly send Ukraine the latest version of the SAMP/T NG anti-aircraft missile system for combat testing against Russian ballistic miss ...

The US has lifted sanctions on Russian oil, which is already on tankers at sea, until April 11, 2026. This is a decision that will support the Russian ...

Ukrainian forces are successfully counterattacking not only in the direction of Oleksandrivka and Hulyaipole, but also in the western part of Zaporizh ...

Ukraine will send an unspecified number of Ukrainian military personnel with experience in shooting down "Shahed" drones to the Middle East. ...

Russia continues to offer no support for Iran, only standard condemnations of the Western aggression that led to the deaths of Iranian Supreme Leader ...

Russian representatives condemned the US and Israeli strikes against Iran on February 28, in line with Russian rhetoric surrounding the Israeli-Irania ...

Russian forces have likely begun artillery and drone preparations on the battlefield for the expected spring-summer offensive in 2026 in the Donetsk r ...

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has observed no evidence of Ukrainian forces in Pokrovsk since late January 2026, indicating that Russian for ...

The fifth year of the war in Ukraine is not off to a good start for Moscow. Recent Ukrainian successes on the battlefield belie Russian threats that t ...

The attack in Lviv, which resulted in the death of a 23-year-old policewoman and the injury of more than 20 law enforcement officers, showed that Russ ...