Ukraine War
Summary and Key Points: As Russia’s economy buckles under sanctions and drone strikes on its oil infrastructure, the elite consensus around Vladimir Putin is...
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Ukraine War
The Russian army is now losing ground in Ukraine for the first time since January 2024. As one top retired British Army commander told...
Ukraine War
In a phone call to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Russia’s Foreign Minister-for-life Sergei Lavrov warned that Russia would now be conducting an...
Ukraine War
On May 25, 2026, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov placed a phone call to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The substance of what...
Dollars and Sense
On paper, Vladimir Putin is a modestly compensated public servant. The Kremlin’s official disclosures list his annual salary at roughly $140,000. His declared personal...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Ukraine’s armed forces retook 116 square kilometers of Russian-occupied territory in April 2026 — the largest monthly rollback since Ukraine’s August 2024 incursion into...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Financial Times reported that during Donald Trump’s recent visit to Beijing, Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping told the U.S. president that...
Ukraine War
A recently resurfaced Kremlin video shows Russian President Vladimir Putin coughing repeatedly and struggling through a recorded International Women’s Day speech in March 2026....
Ukraine War
Russia has lost between 1 million and 1.2 million soldiers killed and wounded in Ukraine since February 2022, according to Western analysts. A January...