Category: 6. Opinion

Ukraine has recently tested a new ground drone called Gnome, developed by the Ukrainian company Temerland for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The platform is designed to carry various weapons and provide fire support to soldiers and enhance non-contact combat operations, Militarnyi says. Drone… Continue Reading

Russia has seemingly formed a mechanized battalion from the crew of its only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov. The fact that Moscow is willing to sacrifice its naval capabilities by repurposing highly specialized personnel for ground operations reveals the depth of its manpower shortages… Continue Reading

Special forces of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) said that on the day the Ukrainian flag was raised on Zmiinyi (Snake) Island (Zmiinyi), a storm overturned a motorboat and the soldiers spent 28 hours in the open sea on a rubber boat with oars. The dramatic account of the… Continue Reading

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has indicated that delicate negotiations with the White House to allow Ukraine to use Storm Shadow missiles inside Russia are ongoing, arguing it was a time for “nerve and guts.” The potential authorization of these long-range strikes could significantly… Continue Reading

The explosion at the Toropets strategic ammunition depot in Russia’s Tver Oblast, approximately 500km from Ukraine, was recorded at 2.7 on the Richter scale, equivalent to a mild earthquake. The massive explosion at Russia’s Toropets strategic ammunition depot, one of the country’s… Continue Reading

A Russian drone hit a civilian car in Nikopol, in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, killing a twelve-year-old girl and a woman of 25. As Russian Armed Forces persist in targeting civilian areas from occupied territories, the incident serves as a grim reminder of the urgent need for increased… Continue Reading

Ukraine’s Defense Minister Rustem Umierov has announced that the country is capable of producing several million drones per year, significantly surpassing current budget allocations. He said it in a televised interview on 22 September, as reported by Ukrinform. The minister’s statement… Continue Reading

Russia’s Kremlin is reorganizing its decentralized, regional volunteer recruitment campaigns into a federal effort, “indicating that Russia is struggling to meet the manpower demands of its war in Ukraine despite previous claims that the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk Oblast caused a spike… Continue Reading

Commenting on his meeting with Constantinople exarchs a month ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on 20 September that he expressed support for elevating the status of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to a patriarchate. According to a report by Ukrainian news outlet LB, Zelenskyy Continue Reading

Estonian intelligence has reported Russia’s significant loss of ammunition following a Ukrainian drone strike on a storage facility in Toropets, Tver Oblast, in western Russia on 18 September, ERR reports. According to Col. Kiviselg, chief of the Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) Intelligence… Continue Reading