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Russians Are Pulling Cash Out of Their Banks at the Fastest Pace Since the Pandemic — and Ukrainian Drones Are the Hidden Reason Why

Russia's stock of physical cash has jumped since January — the biggest rise outside the pandemic, per a BBC analysis — as mobile-internet shutdowns...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

Putin at Valdai Club in 2013. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Ukraine War

Ukraine Just Hit Three Russian Oil Depots and a Shadow-Fleet Ship in a Single Night — Moscow’s Whole Fuel Chain Is Now a Target

Ukraine's SBU says drones set fires at three oil depots in Russia's Stavropol region while a Mamai sea drone struck the Avero, the fourth...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

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Ukraine War

Russia Says It Downed Nearly Four Hundred Drones in a Single Night — a Smoke Plume Dozens of Miles Long Tells the Story It Left Out

Russia said it intercepted 379 Ukrainian drones overnight — yet smoke from a burning Wildberries complex near Moscow stretched for dozens of miles, and...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

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Ukraine War

Russia Just Threw One of Its Largest Ballistic Barrages of the Entire War at Kyiv — and Ukraine’s Defenses Stopped Most of It

Russia fired 41 missiles and 125 drones at Ukraine overnight into July 19, concentrating one of its largest ballistic barrages on Kyiv; the Air...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 19, 2026

The Treaty

Ukraine Just Hit ‘Russia’s Amazon’ Twice in a Single Night — Striking the Giant Warehouses That Keep the Wartime Economy Moving

Ukrainian drones struck two Wildberries warehouses and an oil depot in the Moscow and Tambov regions overnight, with regional governors reporting seven workers killed...

Jack BuckbyJuly 18, 2026

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Explosions Just Rocked the Air Base That Houses Russia’s Strategic Bomber Fleet — and Moscow Isn’t Saying What Happened There

Ukrainian drones reportedly struck Engels-2 air base in Saratov Oblast, home to the Tu-95 and Tu-160 bombers that launch cruise missiles at Ukrainian cities...

Caleb LarsonJuly 18, 2026

Putin in Meeting In January 2023 Creative Commons Photo

Dollars and Sense

Europe Swore Off Russian Energy Years Ago — It’s Still Buying the Same Fuel Through Middlemen, Just at Higher Prices Than Before

Sanctions battered Russia's economy but never broke it: Europe still buys Russian fuel indirectly at higher prices, and a shadow payment network moves enough...

Isaac SeitzJuly 18, 2026

Putin Back in 2025 Creative Commons Photo

The Treaty

Putin’s Approval Just Took Its Steepest One-Week Dive in Nearly Four Years — and the Bad News Comes From the Kremlin’s Own Pollsters

Polling published Friday by two Kremlin-linked survey groups shows Putin's approval taking its steepest weekly drop since the September 2022 mobilization, with FOM measuring...

Jack BuckbyJuly 17, 2026

Dollars and Sense

Russia’s Richest Men Are Quietly Moving Their Fortunes Out of the Country — and Some of Them Are Reportedly Close to Putin Himself

Some of Russia's wealthiest businessmen — including figures reportedly close to Putin — are quietly moving assets abroad, Bloomberg reports, favoring Dubai, the Gulf,...

Isaac SeitzJuly 17, 2026

National Security Journal

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Ukraine War

Russians Are Pulling Cash Out of Their Banks at the Fastest Pace Since the Pandemic — and Ukrainian Drones Are the Hidden Reason Why

Ukraine War

Ukraine Just Hit Three Russian Oil Depots and a Shadow-Fleet Ship in a Single Night — Moscow’s Whole Fuel Chain Is Now a Target

Ukraine War

Russia Says It Downed Nearly Four Hundred Drones in a Single Night — a Smoke Plume Dozens of Miles Long Tells the Story It Left Out

Ukraine War

Russia Just Threw One of Its Largest Ballistic Barrages of the Entire War at Kyiv — and Ukraine’s Defenses Stopped Most of It

The Treaty

Ukraine Just Hit ‘Russia’s Amazon’ Twice in a Single Night — Striking the Giant Warehouses That Keep the Wartime Economy Moving

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Explosions Just Rocked the Air Base That Houses Russia’s Strategic Bomber Fleet — and Moscow Isn’t Saying What Happened There

Dollars and Sense

Europe Swore Off Russian Energy Years Ago — It’s Still Buying the Same Fuel Through Middlemen, Just at Higher Prices Than Before

The Treaty

Putin’s Approval Just Took Its Steepest One-Week Dive in Nearly Four Years — and the Bad News Comes From the Kremlin’s Own Pollsters

Dollars and Sense

Russia’s Richest Men Are Quietly Moving Their Fortunes Out of the Country — and Some of Them Are Reportedly Close to Putin Himself

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