Amy B. Zegart
Russian forces that pushed into Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region are largely hiding as they wait for backup from their main units, a Ukrainian officer said, describing a fluid and difficult battlefield.
Ukraine’s military says Moscow assembled …
Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi confirmed the heaviest fighting is now on the Pokrovsk axis. But he denied that Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad are cut off, stressing that joint Defense Forces teams - including the Defense Ministry’s Main …
Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Defense Ministry said Ukrainian strikes have knocked out the “Ring” petroleum products pipeline in the Moscow region.
GUR called it a “critical military facility” that supplied Russia’s army with …
Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (GUR) continues stabilization operations in the city of Pokrovsk, and Kremlin claims that a GUR airborne detachment was “wiped out” are false, RBC-Ukraine reported, citing its own sources in the Ukrainian Armed …
Ukraine is continuing to fight for Pokrovsk and “landed earlier this week” a special-forces unit from the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry (GUR MO) to take part in combat in the area, Reuters reported , citing two Ukrainian …
At an on-the-record meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) chief Vasyl Maliuk said Russia’s most effective air-defense asset is the Pantsir surface-to-air missile and gun system - a frequent target for …
fter Ukraine’s security services began sustained attacks on oil processing facilities, Russia has been hit by a widespread fuel crunch. According to experts, since August 2025, 21 of the country’s 38 largest refineries have been targeted by Ukrainian …
Russia is seeking to bleed Ukraine through a “thousand cuts” tactic - simultaneous offensives across multiple fronts. But military analyst Dmytro Snegiriev says it isn’t working in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where an attempt to create a buffer zone …
The arrest and detention of a former top energy official in Ukraine this week is an alarming new episode of democratic backsliding, Ukraine's civil society and lawmakers say — the latest in a series of politically motivated attacks on individuals and …
