Tag: Russia
Ukraine Strikes Wildberries Warehouses Across Russia
Ukrainian forces used long-range FP-1 drones, built by Ukrainian manufacturer Fire Point and capable of reaching targets more than 350 kilometers inside Russia, to strike Wildberries logistics hubs in Russia's Ryazan, Penza, and Udmurtia regions overnight, part of a wider wave of strikes that also hit an oil refinery in…
Missile From Russia Crashes in Poland
An object that crashed in eastern Poland overnight appears to have been a Russian missile, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Thursday, after authorities found a crater and scattered debris in a field following reports of an explosion, according to Reuters, via the Moscow Times. Tusk said the object was…
Private Industry Storms the Missile Age
The missile is again becoming an organizing weapon of conventional war. Ukraine and the Middle East have shown that states with modest air forces can impose military and economic costs at long range. Precision strike has turned into an industrial competition built around mixed salvos, production speed and the ability…
Russia Opens New Mali Supply Route
The reported journey of the sanctioned Russian cargo ship Mikhail Britnev from Arkhangelsk via Baltiysk to Lomé, followed by an overland military-equipment convoy through Togo and Burkina Faso to Bamako in July 2026. The previous Conakry–Bamako corridor is shown for comparison; routes are schematic where exact tracking was unavailable. Illustration:…
Intelligence Rearmament Spreads as States Prepare for Conflict
Sweden is creating an independent civilian foreign intelligence service. Japan is establishing a central intelligence bureau and proposing its first standalone postwar foreign-intelligence agency. Germany is debating powers that could take its foreign intelligence agency beyond gathering information and into sabotage, cyber disruption and, only in a constitutionally declared state…
Ukraine Hits Wildberries Hub in Massive Ryazan Drone Attack
A massive Ukrainian drone attack struck Russia's Ryazan region early Wednesday, setting a Wildberries logistics center ablaze and reportedly hitting the Rosneft-operated Ryazan Oil Refinery.Governor Pavel Malkov confirmed a large attack and fires at industrial sites, saying six people were hospitalized. He attributed the fires to falling drone debris without…
Putin Orders Third Armed Forces Ceiling Hike of 2026
Russia has again expanded the authorized size of its armed forces, reinforcing a military structure built for prolonged war rather than postwar demobilization.The decree, signed by President Vladimir Putin on July 27, raises the ceiling to 2,426,130 personnel, including 1,535,000 servicemembers — the third such increase in 2026, according to…
Four Countries Protest Russia Over War’s Fallout
Over the past ten days, Russia has drawn formal diplomatic protests from three countries with little in common except geography, India, Azerbaijan, and Botswana, plus a fourth incident involving Romania that Bucharest has linked to Moscow's war. Read together, the four episodes trace back to three distinct features of how…
U.S. Missile Shortages Raise Risks From Ukraine to Taiwan
U.S. officials fear Russia and China may factor depleted American missile-interceptor stocks into decisions on Ukraine, Europe and Taiwan, after the Iran war consumed a share of critical air-defense munitions, The New York Times reported Sunday. That is an assessment of strategic risk, not evidence either leader has decided on…
Drone War Is Pushing Beyond Electronic Jamming
For much of the drone war in Ukraine, electronic warfare offered one of the cheapest answers to one of the battlefield's cheapest threats. Jam the radio link between an FPV drone and its pilot, disrupt satellite navigation or flood the relevant frequencies, and a weapon costing hundreds or thousands of…
