History suggests that military defeat often leads to radical political change in Moscow
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Category: 2. RussianAggression
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Putin could pay a personal price for failure in Ukraine
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Andriy Yermak, Once the Muscle Behind Zelensky, Is Now Crowdfunding Bail Money
Ukraine’s predominant power broker has fallen so far from grace that even his own fortuneteller couldn’t have seen it coming.
This gray cardinal, Andriy Yermak, was until late last year the second most powerful person in the country. An old friend of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s, Mr….
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Danish shipyard still servicing LNG tankers for Russia trade
Fayard is only remaining EU yard taking on dry-dock work for ships carrying gas exported from Siberia
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Russia’s $30m terror missile keeps missing
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- It’s possible Russia launched two Oreshnik ballistic missiles at Ukraine on May 23, not one
- If so, both failed to hit anything of major military or symbolic…
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Can Russian missiles really decimate Kyiv?
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Moscow’s missile massacres are deadly. However, the scalability ceiling may be lower than Russian messaging suggests, at least in the short to medium term. The upper limits…
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Trump Hits the Stalemate Phase of His Interventions in Gaza, Ukraine and Now Iran
President Trump likes his military and diplomatic victories quick, clean and decisive.
On his desk in the Oval Office, he keeps models of the B-2 bombers that took out three Iranian nuclear sites in one night, not quite a year ago. In the opening weeks of the Iran conflict this year, he talked…
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Ukrainian Drones Strike Oil Refinery Deep Inside Russia
A major fire broke out at the Saratov oil refinery after a Ukrainian drone strike on May 31, according to Ukrainian military officials. The refinery is located about 600 kilometers from the Ukrainian border and is operated by Rosneft.
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Ukrainian Drones Target Russian Refinery In Latest Attack Deep Inside Russia
Ukrainian drones have targeted a Russian oil refinery hundreds of kilometers from the Ukrainian border, the latest in a campaign of deep strikes aimed at disrupting Russia’s oil industry.
The May 31 overnight attacks on the facility in the central Saratov region — the second since…
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A Big Bang, a Fire and Panic as War Enters Romanian Homes
For Romanians living near the border with Ukraine, noisy phone alerts warning of “falling objects from the surrounding airspace” and other possible dangers had become so frequent and seemingly needless that many often set their phones to silent mode before going to bed.
Andra Lupsa, 38, had…
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Gripens: What Impact Will The Swedish Fighter Jet Have In Ukraine?
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