A group of Russian soldiers who didn’t want to «keep going ahead» in Ukraine were reportedly stripped, tied up, and whisked off in buses to an unknown location. A Russian soldier sent to do Vladimir Putin’s bidding in Ukraine has been caught calling the Russian leader an «old nutjob» and trash-talking his war, while others say the Kremlin’s militar

In Buryatia they said goodbye to serviceman Bato Basanov, who was the champion of Russia in tank biathlon. However, this title did not help the occupier to survive the attack on Ukraine. The death of the champion was reported by the Telegram-channel "InformNapalm", and then confirmed by the Russian media. The Russian press notes that in 2021 Basano

With Western technology sales banned, Russia is using computer chips meant for household appliances in battlefield gear, Commerce secretary tells a Senate hearing U.S.-led sanctions are forcing Russia to use computer chips from dishwashers and refrigerators in some military equipment, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Wednesday. «We have report

The seventy-ninth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. russian enemy does not cease offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson oblasts and maintain the land corridor between these territories and

HELSINKI — Nordic governments have set about deepening regional defense cooperation against the backdrop of the very real expectation that non-aligned Sweden and Finland will announce their decisions to join NATO as soon as May 16. Finland’s President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Sanna Marin issued a joint announcement on Thursday backing NATO

WASHINGTON ― While top Marine leaders watch as workers construct a state-of-the-art war-gaming center at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, war-gaming in multiple forms proliferates across the force. That’s coming to Marines of all ranks and billets through exercises large and small, board games and advance artificial intelligence options that a

By Barbara Moens and Leonie Kijewski The European Commission is facing a backlash against plans to send funding to Hungary as part of an effort to persuade Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to agree to EU sanctions on Russian oil. At a meeting of senior diplomats in Brussels on Wednesday, several EU countries raised concerns about a plan to offer Hungary

Making big promises at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow was hard; six months later, governments are finding out that actually following through on them is even harder. Ministers and representatives from more than 40 countries will be in Copenhagen on Thursday to ensure climate efforts aren't overshadowed by the war in Ukraine, a still-lethal pan

An eastern Ukrainian village that suffered tremendous devastation at the onset of the war is now turning the tables on Russian forces. ROHAN, Eastern Ukraine—The sound of thunder fills the sky as dozens of rockets soar over our heads. «Stay here!» Leila, a young Ukrainian officer, tells us while she points out a nearby farmhouse to use for cover sh

The representative of the occupying country said that the risk is great, because it is provoked by "pumping Ukraine with weapons." Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev erupted in threats over the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine. He believes that military assistance to Ukraine provokes a "nuclear war

The consequence of economic sanctions imposed by the world's leading powers on the aggressor country is a significant decline in the military-industrial complex of Russia. Having lost a significant part of their military and technical potential during the war in Ukraine, the Russians are already forced to supply 50-60 years of production and equipm

The seventy-eighth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. russian enemy continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. russian enemy does not stop conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk

WASHINGTON — The operation to supply Ukraine with defensive weapons is straining allied supply chains, laying bare the potential for bottlenecks in lower-echelon but high-tech weaponry needed quickly at scale, according to British Defence Minister Ben Wallace. “Even fairly handheld equipment, like Stingers or Javelins or NLAWS, are almost as bespok

There are no evidences of kremlin’s intentions to end the war in Ukraine for near future. At the same time, attempts to conduct so-called ‘covert mobilization’ are going on. An active agitation campaign is underway, as well as graduates and cadets of military schools are being sent to the combat zone. Air assault units which suffered significant lo

In 2014, when Russian forces entered the Crimean Peninsula, they faced remarkably little resistance. The Ukrainian military was weak, poorly trained, and corrupt. That was the Ukrainian military Russian President Vladimir Putin expected to encounter when he invaded the country again in February 2022. Assuming that the Ukrainian military would not p