Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinIt’s been three weeks since Ukrainian brigades forced Russian troops across the wide Dnipro River in southern Ukraine, liberating Kherson city and bending the arc of Russia’s nine-month-old wider war on Ukraine. The fighting in…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinIt’s been three weeks since Ukrainian brigades forced Russian troops across the wide Dnipro River in southern Ukraine, liberating Kherson city and bending the arc of Russia’s nine-month-old wider war on Ukraine. The fighting in…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinThe Ukrainian army has deployed some of its best brigades to eastern Ukraine, including the 92nd and 93rd Mechanized Brigades and the 1st Presidential Brigade. But these elite Ukrainian formations might not be the biggest…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinThe United Kingdom is sending three Westland Sea King helicopters to Ukraine. The 1970s-vintage rotorcraft, which once served in large numbers in the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy, are Ukraine’s first Western helicopters. Harbingers,…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinThere might be just one big ship left in the Ukrainian navy—the amphibious landing vessel Yuri Olefirenko. She might be old and ugly and crude, but it’s possible Yuri Olefirenko is playing an important role…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinThe U.S. Navy plans to install its new hypersonic land-attack missiles on the first warship to get the missiles—the stealthy destroyer USS Zumwalt—in 2025. And in the years that follow, the Navy could arm as…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinAn apparent Ukrainian drone-boat strike on Novorossiysk, a hundred miles from Russian-occupied Crimea in southern Russia, should sound the alarm in Sevastopol, the Crimean headquarters of the Russian navy’s beleaguered Black Sea Fleet. A nighttime…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinThe Ukrainian army’s 92nd Mechanized Brigade is killing Russian draftees as fast as the Kremlin can shove the unhappy, unfit conscripts to the front near the Russian-occupied town of Svatove, 30 miles northwest of Severodonetsk…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinUkrainian advances in southern Ukraine could lead to, well, further Ukrainian advances in southern Ukraine. To understand why, look at Russian logistics in the region. Specifically, the town of Myrne in Kherson Oblast, 38 miles…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinThree days after the Kremlin ordered its starving, battered forces to retreat from the right bank of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast, Ukrainian troops liberated the international airport in the oblast. No…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinFor all its profound faults, the Russian air force has a lot of new and highly sophisticated fighter jets. They have better sensors, weapons and defensive gear than the Ukrainian air force’s own, less numerous,…