Amy B. Zegart
French military personnel are already in eastern Ukraine with a specific mission.
French service members have been discreetly traveling to Ukrainian-controlled areas of Donbas to train near the front on operating combat drones, reports Paris Match, …
Ukrainian Forces continue a successful operation to de-occupy Kupyansk from Russian troops. Russia’s military does not control the city, and those who remain there are taking significant losses.
That information sharply contrasts with reports from …
Editor’s Note:
Wishing you a peaceful Christmas from all of us at The Counteroffensive.
Tim and Tania spent Christmas Eve with the Khartiia Brigrade in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine. More on that soon.
This year, Christmas in Ukraine looks …
Belarusian authorities have sent to prison a Belarusian national who fought for Russia against Ukraine, in a move analysts describe as a pointed signal despite Minsk’s alliance with the Kremlin.
According to Dissidentby, a Belarusian court sentenced …
Russian army is stepping up pressure on Mirnohrad in the Donetsk region, a key objective for its advance in this sector, the press service of the 7th Corps of the Air Assault Forces said.
“To achieve its goal, the enemy has concentrated around ten …
Ukrainian Forces struck positions used by Russian drone operators in Siversk and Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, the Eastern Group of Forces said on December 24.
According to the statement, 1,217 drones of various types and 105 other pieces of …
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) says it hit a Russian Il-38N maritime patrol aircraft at the Yeysk airfield. It was the only aircraft of its type Russia had in the Black Sea, the SBU said.
The SBU released footage from the drone that struck the …
Several blasts were reported at the site where a car belonging to Russian Gen. Fanil Sarvarov was previously blown up in a parking lot. Residents of Moscow’s Orekhovo-Borisovo district said they heard at least two loud “pops” on Yeletskaya Street, …
As Ukraine’s future is debated in distant conference rooms and Ukrainians prepare to mark another wartime Christmas, dozens of residents of a small border village in Sumy Oblast have vanished across the Russian border — taken by force from their …
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said he received a briefing from the head of Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service, Oleh Ivashchenko, including how Russia is targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure using Chinese satellite images.
Zelensky …
