Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 15, 2025
Angelica Evans, Nicole Wolkov, Christina Harward, Anna Harvey, and Frederick W. Kagan with Nate Trotter
April 15, 2025, 6:45 pm ET
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Category: 4. World
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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 15, 2025
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19 Big Cats Rescued in Spain as Police Raid Animal Smuggling Ring
The Spanish police say they rescued 19 exotic felines from a home on the island of Majorca that were bound for sale on the growing illegal world market for big cats, and they arrested the Russian couple who owned them.
With demand for large…
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Elite Pentagon Unit Resigns En Masse After Clashing With DOGE
The Pentagon’s elite tech unit is collapsing after clashing with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Nearly every staffer at the Defense Digital Service (DDS) is resigning over the coming month, according to the program’s…
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Supreme Court to announce ruling on definition of a woman
Getty ImagesThe Supreme Court is to deliver its verdict on how a woman should be defined in law.
The announcement marks the culmination of a long-running legal battle between the Scottish government and a women’s group.
The outcome could have…
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Hamas says it has lost contact with US-Israeli hostage in Gaza
Hamas says it has “lost contact” with the group of fighters holding an Israeli-American hostage captive in Gaza following an Israeli strike on their location.
The 21-year-old soldier, Edan Alexander, has appeared in videos released by the group in…
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Jordan says 16 arrested over foiled rocket and drone attack plots
Jordan’s security services say they have arrested 16 people suspected of plotting attacks inside the country involving rockets and drones.
The General Intelligence Department said the suspects had been under surveillance since 2021 and their plans…
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Officials: US ‘open’ to supporting a Yemen ground operation
Amid its persistent, so-far largely ineffective aerial campaign against Yemen’s Houthis, the U.S. may now move to support Yemen’s internationally recognized government in a ground operation against them.
Indeed, the WSJ reported yesterday that…
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The First Ever Sighting of a Colossal Squid
In March, Kat Bolstad returned from an Antarctic expedition where she had used a new camera system specially built to search for the elusive colossal squid.
No one had captured footage of one of these animals swimming in the deep sea. She didn’t…
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