Tag: Russia-Ukraine War

Zelensky pushes for Western aid to fight Russian ‘army of about 2 million people’

Joel Gehrke · January 13, 2023 9:12 pm

Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin attends the funeral of Dmitry Menshikov, a fighter of the Wagner group who died during a special operation in Ukraine, at the Beloostrovskoye cemetery outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2022.

Beltway Confidential

Forget Soledar: Russia cannot sustain the offensive initiative

Tom Rogan · January 13, 2023 8:09 pm

Iranian demonstrators hold posters showing portraits of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, top left on the poster, in a protest against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in front of the French Embassy in Tehran, Iran.

Threats from Iran are expanding beyond Middle East, defense official says

Mike Brest · January 13, 2023 4:54 pm

Commander of the Ukrainian army, Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, gives instructions in a shelter in Soledar, the site of heavy battles with the Russian forces, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. Russia's Defense Ministry said Friday Jan. 13, 2023 that its forces have captured the salt-mining town of Soledar, the focus of a bloody battle between Russian and Ukrainian forces for months.

Russia claims to have captured Ukrainian town of Soledar

Mike Brest · January 13, 2023 3:49 pm

Daily on Defense

Ukraine burning through critical ammunition far faster than the US can replenish its inventory

Jamie McIntyre · January 13, 2023 12:11 pm

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

From Cold War to frozen conflicts

Michael Rubin · January 12, 2023 11:07 pm

Volunteers load bodies of civilians killed in Bucha onto a truck to be taken to a morgue for investigation, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 12, 2022.

Report details horrific human rights abuses by Russian forces in Ukraine

Mike Brest · January 12, 2023 5:21 pm

‘We serve AMERICA’: Marjorie Taylor Greene rejects proposed Zelensky bust in Capitol

Heather Hamilton · January 12, 2023 2:13 pm

Col. Gen. Sergei Surovikin, commander of the Russian forces in Syria, speaks, with a map of Syria projected on the screen in the back, at a briefing in the Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow, Russia, Friday, June 9, 2017. Russia's Defense Ministry announced that air force chief, Gen. Sergei Surovikin, would be the commander of all Russian troops fighting in Ukraine. The statement marked the first official appointment of a single commander for the entire Russian force in Ukraine.

Putin replaces ‘General Armageddon’ as commander of Russia’s war in Ukraine after just three months

Conrad Hoyt · January 12, 2023 4:08 am

Putin snaps in recorded meeting with ministers

Brady Knox · January 11, 2023 10:24 pm

Russian mercenary chief claims victory despite Kremlin hesitation

Joel Gehrke · January 11, 2023 8:48 pm

Poland's President Andrzej Duda speaks at the start of a massive march marking 100 years since Poland regained independence in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018.

Poland to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine on one condition

Mike Brest · January 11, 2023 5:52 pm