Kyiv’s message to Moscow could not be clearer: Less than 24 hours before a possible meeting in Istanbul for direct talks on a peace process, the Ukrainian secret service says it has destroyed dozens of military aircraft at four airfields in Russia. A fifth attack in the Amur region apparently failed. The damaged or destroyed […]
Defense Express: Great Britain relies on drones. The British military is transforming itself from a traditional, mechanized army into a flexible, unmanned force, drawing on the experience of Ukraine in the war against Russia. The military leadership is proposing to carry out 80 percent of future operations with drones. Read the article.Roland Berger: The defense […]
Prior to the visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to Berlin on Wednesday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz successfully set a topic of discussion that was actually settled months ago: After more than two years of dispute over whether Ukraine should be allowed to use Western weapons against targets in Russia, the supporters from the West […]
The Russian army is increasingly mistreating its own soldiers in the war against Ukraine in order to force them to fight. They are increasingly being punished with torture, imprisonment under catastrophic conditions, and even being shot.Four independent non-governmental organizations from Russia have presented a new report on the subject. In it, they note an increase […]
No non-governmental organization in Ukraine has contributed as much to the use of drones by the military as Aerorozvidka. Founded in 2014 by IT specialists and drone hobbyists, the volunteers helped with reconnaissance on the movement of Russian troops in the Donbass from the very beginning. Today, the NGO is closely linked to the army, […]
There are well-founded doubts that Russian President Vladimir Putin really plans to end the war by diplomatic means. It remains to be seen whether the third, officially known phone call between him and US President Donald Trump on Monday will possibly change anything:Putin and Trump talked for a long time. According to both sides, the […]
As always, the devil is in the detail, and the details of the Ukraine-US reconstruction treaty are not yet unclear. However, what is known about the contract, which is due to be signed on April 30, speaks volumes for the negotiating skills of Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s government.Kyiv has succeeded in obliging the USA to invest in […]
The USA wants to support Kyiv in making the Black Sea safer for civilian shipping and preventing military violence. Maritime trade in particular should benefit from this. This was agreed by Ukrainian and US representatives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Monday and Tuesday, according to a statement issued by the White House. It initially remained […]
Further talks are to begin today, Monday, in Riyadh in the US’ attempts to mediate between Russia and Ukraine. Although representatives of both parties to the conflict are to be present for the first time, direct meetings between the Ukrainian and Russian sides are not planned.The first topic to be discussed is a ceasefire in […]
Almost eleven years to the day after then-US President Barack Obama said that Russia was merely a weak “regional power,” Russia’s ruler Vladimir Putin has achieved an important goal of his long war with hundreds of thousands of deaths: A US president is negotiating a new security order in Europe with him on an equal […]