Ukraine

In a few days in September the Ukrainians liberated about as much land as Russia had captured in a few months, slicing through Russian forces to retake 6,000 square kilometers of territory. According to strategist Phillips Payson O’Brien It was one of the greatest military-strategy successes since 1945. Collapsing Russian…

Russia said it was withdrawing from the grain agreement. This is after the Black Fleet was hit in Sevastopol. We can now guess that the damage was significant. First, Russia launched missiles at Ukraine, chiefly critical energy and water infrastructure. Second, it was unable to respond to this: The UN…

KGB historian, Dr. Yuri Felshtinsky, believes that Russia is preparing to use Belarus as a launchpad for nuclear strikes against Ukraine. If this were true, and not mere speculation, it would be a clever move by Putin to avoid the worst of NATO’s response in the event of a Russian…

Like an abandoned amusement park, Russia’s economy is beginning to rust — Last night I spent a couple of hours drinking beers with a Ukrainian friend and two of his Russian friends who recently managed to escape Russia when mobilization started. The guys from Moscow offered up some observations of how Russians are surviving this moment in their history. Some inspired me…

The low morale of Russian soldiers and their poor equipment will be a major handicap. — While the beginning of autumn had been rather mild in terms of temperature, temperatures have started to drop sharply in Ukraine in recent days. Between December and February, the thermometer will remain on average below zero in Kyiv. In the North, where a continental climate prevails, it can drop even…

Putin is taking actions today that cripple his most valuable weapons and billboard the frail nature of Russia’s primitive economy. In fact, he is busy finishing it off. Russia is dependent on two exports, fossil fuels and raw materials, especially grain, which mostly do not undergo local processing into products…

The Ukrainians’ ability to develop weapons and techniques to repel Putin’s Russia goes beyond Western assistance. — In Ukraine, the Russian Black Sea fleet was attacked on Saturday 29 October 2022 in the port of Sevastopol in Crimea, a territory under Russian occupation since 2014, by Ukrainian maritime drones. Machines of a new type, never before used in an offensive. Putin took the opportunity to seize this…