Amy B. Zegart
Sociologists are recording a swift drop in trust in Vladimir Putin’s rule amid the war and a deepening crisis.
Russia’s power vertical is experiencing a prolonged ratings slump in the fourth year of its full-scale war against Ukraine. Fresh surveys …
Do leaked CCTV videos really show Israeli missiles striking Iranian missile bases? No, that's not true: Clips in a viral video with that description contain several glitches typical of AI generated footage. It was published by an account that has …
UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Dec. 2 — In the evening on Dec. 1, Russian forces attacked a civilian car with an FPV drone in Klynova-Novoselivka village in the Zolochiv community, injuring two men aged 40 and 47 years old, reported the Kharkiv regional …
On December 2, 2025, Lithuania identified a hybrid threat originating from Belarus targeting its airspace, primarily involving hostile meteorological balloons carrying dummy payloads designed to terrorize skies. In response, the Lithuanian government …
On December 2, 2025, the Lublin branch of Poland’s National Public Prosecutor’s Office charged a 28-year-old Russian, Mihail M., with leading an organized criminal group conducting espionage and sabotage activities benefiting Russian …
A representative of Ukraine’s 63rd Separate Mechanized Brigade says fighting is intense in the city of Lyman in Donetsk region. According to him, Russian forces keep rotating in fresh troops, including what he described as Black mercenaries. …
Top officials in Ukrainian politics coordinated their actions to force out chief of staff Andriy Yermak, who had moved to sack the SBU chief and other security officials in a bid to save himself.
Yermak’s resignation has become not only one of the …
A group of drones reached Russia’s Dagestan region and struck workshops at the Dagdizel shipbuilding plant in Kaspiysk. A port that hosts Russian Navy vessels may also have been targeted. Local authorities confirmed the attack. The aftermath was …
Lithuania’s chargé d’affaires ad interim in Belarus, Erikas Vilkanecas, was summoned to the Belarusian Foreign Ministry on December 1. The diplomat was handed a protest over an alleged violation of Belarus’ state border by a fixed-wing unmanned …
Successful Ukrainian strikes on two tankers in Russia’s “shadow fleet” in the Black Sea are a lawful military operation, blogger Maksym Gardus argues - and they carry global consequences. Rising risks around oil transport could cut Russia’s revenues …
