Newly released footage confirms that the Russian Air Force has begun using three-ton glide bombs in Ukraine. While it remains uncertain just how big a role this munition will play in the war, it adds to...
Russia, China, and Iran are waging information wars against Western countries, particularly at universities, and it’s Ukrainian and Jewish students who are paying the price.
A newspaper can hide substantial reporting failures by describing a story as “updated” rather than admitting to malpractice by printing a correction. A headline on the front page of...
Nearly two weeks into their long-awaited counteroffensive, Ukrainian forces have made some initial tactical gains while also taking significant losses. However, the offensive has yet to reach its decisive...
Ukraine launched a flurry of localized offensives across the battlefield on June 4 and 5, most notably in Russian-occupied southern Donetsk Oblast. These attacks likely aim merely to probe Russian defenses...
Kyiv continues to pursue a weeks-long effort to set favorable conditions for success in its coming counteroffensive. These “shaping operations” aim to undermine the Russian military’s ability...
Zelensky Visits Besieged City of Avdiivka
Putin Hosts Xi for State Visit Days after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest, Vladimir Putin hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a state visit. The event marked a diplomatic...
With an overwhelming vote of 141 in favor, seven opposed, and 32 abstentions, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly demanded on Thursday that Russia “immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw...
With renewed fighting expected, Kyiv needs the ability to attack deeper behind Russian lines in occupied lands, write a trio of FDD researchers.
Ukraine’s stunning victory in Kharkiv Oblast has reshaped the battlefield and dealt a powerful blow to Vladimir Putin’s ambitions in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces continue to wage a more gradual...
Congress should insist that U.S. dollars not fund United Nations procurement from Russian companies.
Lessons Learned and Recommendations
Russia’s modern day foreign ministry seems to follow the old Soviet negotiating precept: What is mine is mine, what is yours is up for negotiation.
Russia has attacked hundreds of Ukrainian health care facilities since it invaded unprovoked in February, yet it remains a World Health Organization executive-board member with full voting rights. Indeed,...
During my eight years in Moscow, the annual May 9 Victory over Nazism Parade was a huge, nationally televised extravaganza. Journalists parsed President Vladimir Putin’s speech. Military attaches from...
Will President Joe Biden’s cri de coeur “Putin is a war criminal” become former President Barack Obama’s “Assad must go?” Lofty words; noble intentions, for sure. But Obama came and went....
Bucha? That was the leafy Kyiv suburb where we spent a Saturday afternoon, eating ice cream cones and exploring a city park defined by neatly clipped hedges, classical sculptures and fathers teaching their...
As Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine grinds on into its fourth week, the physical war rages in the cities and countryside, while an information war is waged over the airwaves and on the internet...