Russian forces launched an armoured ground attack on Friday near Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv in the northeast of the country and made limited gains, opening a new front in …
Ukraine’s armed forces are taking up a more defensive posture, a military analysis said on Wednesday, after their summer counteroffensive failed to achieve a breakthrough against Russia’s army and as …
A Ukrainian M777 gunner. Ukrainian defense ministry capture In military parlance, “counterbattery” is when artillery fights other artillery. Traditionally, it’s a duel. Two opposing batteries spot each—and fire away until …
3rd Assault Brigade capture In mid-August, as Ukrainian brigades broke through Russian lines in Verbove, a key strongpoint on the road to Melitopol in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine, the Kremlin panicked. …
1430th MRR T-55 tanks. 1430th MRR photo In mid-August, as Ukrainian brigades began breaking through Russian lines in and around Robotyne—a key strongpoint along the axis leading all the way …
Soldiers from the Ukrainian army’s 23rd Mechanized Brigade. 23rd Mechanized Brigade photo For many observers, Ukraine’s long-anticipated southern counteroffensive began with cataclysm on June 8, when a battlegroup from the …
Ukrainian defense ministry The 82nd Air Assault Brigade, arguably Ukraine’s most powerful brigade, waited six weeks to join the country’s long-anticipated southern counteroffensive. The brigade’s tank crews in their 14 …
A Ukrainian air force TB-2 in 2020. Wikimedia Commons Months after virtually disappearing from Ukraine’s skies, the Ukrainian armed forces’ Bayraktar TB-2 drones are back in action. Videos that appeared …
A FAB glide-bomb. Via social media The Russian air force went to war in Ukraine with modern warplanes carrying obsolete munitions. And that mismatch immediately was obvious, as factory-fresh Sukhoi …
The 76th Guards Air Assault Division in training before the Ukraine war. Russian defense ministry photo The Kremlin is rushing reinforcements to southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast. It’s a desperate bid …