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No JASSM missiles for Ukraine according to Trump.
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No Long-Range Missiles For Ukraine: Trump

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jul 15, 2025

Ukraine will receive additional Patriot batteries, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Monday.
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Trump Announces Deal To Send More Patriot Air Defense Batteries To Ukraine

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jul 14, 2025

Footage from a recent Russian bombardment of the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi provides us with what is likely our best look so far at a Kh-101 cruise missile fitted with a cluster warhead. While Russian forces have made extensive use of a variety of cluster munitions in the conflict, resulting in many civilian deaths and serious injuries, it’s notable that the relatively high-end Kh-101 is also now being used in this capacity, suggesting it is finding favor as a terror weapon as Moscow steps up its campaign against cities across Ukraine.
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Cluster Warhead Version Of Russian Kh-101 Cruise Missile Caught On Camera

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jul 14, 2025

An Antonov-124 Ruslan was spotted over Kyiv on Friday, the first such sighting since the all-out war began.
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Lumbering An-124 Condor Cargo Jet Appears In Kyiv’s Highly-Restricted Airspace

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jul 11, 2025

Drone strikes across Ukraine in largest Russian barrage ever.
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Largest Russian Long-Range Drone Onslaught Of The War Rains Down On Ukraine

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jul 9, 2025

The Pentagon is brushing off concerns that it is running low on Patriot interceptors.
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Patriot Missile Stockpile Concerns Grow, Pentagon Claims It Has Enough

By Howard Altman

Updated on Jul 8, 2025

Ukraine is now using bomber drones launched from sea drones to attack Russian targets.
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Ukraine’s Uncrewed Surface Vessels Are Now Launching Bomber Drones To Attack Crimea

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jul 3, 2025

US is halting some deliveries of weapons to ukraine
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Fears Of Disaster Brewing For Ukraine As U.S. Halts Weapons Shipments Over Stockpile Concerns

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jul 2, 2025

The U.S. Army wants its armored vehicles to begin sporting top attack armor protection by 2027.
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Army Wants Cope Cage-Like Armor To Protect From Drone Attacks On Its Tanks

By Howard Altman

Updated on Jul 1, 2025

Both sides have deployed elite units to fight in Sumy, where Ukraine says it has repelled a massive Russian offensive.
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Fight On Ukraine’s Northern Border Sees Elite Troops Poured In From Both Sides

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jun 30, 2025

An intriguing photo has emerged of an M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) captured by Russia and fitted with a Russian-made 30mm cannon in place of the vehicle’s original Bushmaster M242 25mm automatic cannon. Whether the installation is intended for operational use, or for trials, or for some other purpose, is unclear, but it is the latest in a long line of unorthodox modifications to armored vehicles that have appeared since the start of the war in Ukraine.
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M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle Appears In Russia With Locally Made 30mm Cannon

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jun 28, 2025

North Korea is reportedly sending 25,000 workers to Russia to build and learn how to operate drones.
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North Korea Sending Russia Thousand Of Workers To Build Shahed Drones: Report

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jun 19, 2025

APKWS rockets were kept from Ukraine to be used to defend US in the Middle East.
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Counter-Drone Weapons Diverted From Ukraine To Middle East Amid Rising Tensions, Hegseth Confirms

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jun 11, 2025

Newly emerged video footage purportedly shows the destruction of a Ukrainian drilling rig in the Black Sea by a supersonic cruise missile launched by a Russian Tu-22M3 Backfire-C bomber.
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Russian Cruise Missile Strikes Ukrainian-Controlled Black Sea Drilling Platform

By Thomas Newdick, Howard Altman

Updated on Jun 10, 2025

In an exclusive interview with The War Zone, Ukrainian Lt. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, commander of the Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR), talked about his game-changing sea drone campaign against Russia.
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AIM-9X Being Used By Ukraine’s Drone Boats To Engage Russian Jets, Not AIM-9M

By Howard Altman

Updated on Jun 10, 2025

Russia giving North Korea Shahed 136 production capability.
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Russia Giving North Korea Shahed-136 Attack Drone Production Capability: Budanov

By Howard Altman

Updated on Jun 9, 2025

Su-35 shot down in ukraine
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Claims Swirl Around Russian Su-35S Flanker Shootdown

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jun 9, 2025

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) says it has developed upgrades for a family of modular, rapidly deployable protective structures to improve their ability to shield against drone attacks.
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Growing Drone Threats Lead To Army Modular Shelter Kit Improvements

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 9, 2025

Russia launched revenge attacks across Ukraine for the destruction of its bombers.
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Russia Executes Revenge Strikes Against Ukraine For Blowing Up Its Bombers

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jun 6, 2025

Inside frontline drone operations in ukraine
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Ukrainian Commander’s Exclusive Insights On Brutal Drone Warfare On The Frontline

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jun 4, 2025

New satellite imagery and an official video has revealed more about the scale of destruction and damage inflicted on Russian airfields in Ukraine’s unprecedented covert drone attacks last weekend. Today, the Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, which carried out the drone attacks, published previously unreleased drone footage showing the attacks underway.
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Confirmed Losses Of Russian Aircraft Mount After Ukrainian Drone Assault

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Jun 4, 2025

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery that TWZ has exclusively obtained from ICEYE points to multiple Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers having been damaged or destroyed at Belaya Air Base.
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Latest On Russian Aircraft Loss Assessments From Ukrainian Drone Strikes

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 3, 2025

Ukraine's SBU said it mined the Kerch Bridge, severely damaging it. Russian sources downplay the damage.
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Ukraine Strikes At The Heart Of Russia’s Highly Defended Kerch Bridge

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jun 3, 2025

Hardened aircraft shelters are up for debate as Russia experienced a major attack from Ukrainian drones.
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Mass Drone Attack On Exposed Russian Bombers Puts Spotlight On Hardened Aircraft Shelter Debate

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 3, 2025

More details are emerging about the scope of the massive Ukrainian drone attack on Russian bombers and how it was pulled off.
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What We Know About Ukraine’s Mass Drone Assault On Russian Bombers

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jun 2, 2025

The future of Russia's bomber fleet after Ukraine's mass drone attack.
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What Ukraine’s Unprecedented Drone Attack Means For Russia’s Bomber Force

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Jun 2, 2025

Bear bomber struck by Ukrainian drone.
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Russian Strategic Bombers Destroyed In Unprecedented Wide-Scale Drone Attack (Updated)

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jun 1, 2025

Ukraine's Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR) claims it show down a Russian jet target drone converted to be a weapon.
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Weaponized Russian Jet-Powered Target Drone Shot Down Over Black Sea: Ukraine

By Howard Altman

Posted on May 30, 2025

A Ukrainian commander opens up about the benefits and challenges of using fiber optic cables to control first person view (FPV) drones.
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Inside Ukraine’s Fiber-Optic Drone War

By Howard Altman

Posted on May 28, 2025

Ukraine is pushing back on a Russian claim that Vladimir Putin's helicopter came under fire on May 20.
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Claims Swirl Over Supposed Ukrainian Attack On Putin’s Helicopter

By Howard Altman

Posted on May 28, 2025

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - MAY 14 (RUSSIA OUT) Russian President Vladimir Putin enters the hall during a Russian-Malaysian bilateral meeting at the Grand Kremlin Palace, May 14, 2025 in Moscow, Russia. Prime Minister of Malaysia arrived in Moscow for 4-day official visit to Russia. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images)
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Trump Tries To Spur Sputtering Ukraine-Russia Peace Talks With Flurry Of Calls

By Howard Altman

Posted on May 19, 2025

Russia has followed Ukraine’s lead in adapting the propeller-driven Yak-52 primary training aircraft as an ad-hoc drone-killer. The Yak-52B2 includes a sensor turret to help detect long-range one-way attack drones and has a shotgun mounted under the wing for shooting them down. While it appears that Ukrainian Yak-52s have had some success in the counter-drone role, the appearance of the Yak-52B2 provides more evidence of the pressure that Ukrainian drone strikes are placing on Russia’s traditional air defenses.
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Russia Testing Shotgun-Armed Yak-52 Trainer Aircraft To Down Ukrainian Drones

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on May 19, 2025

F-16 from Ukrainian Air Force.
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Ukraine Situation Report: Third F-16 Viper Lost

By Howard Altman

Posted on May 16, 2025

Ukrainian officials were in Washington this week to hammer out details of a potential $50 billion drone deal.
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Our Best Look Yet At Ukraine’s AIM-9 Sidewinder-Toting Magura-7 Drone Boat

By Howard Altman

Posted on May 15, 2025

Russia is taking a page out of Ukraine's play book and creating Naval drone regiments
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Ukraine Situation Report: Russian Navy Creating New Drone Regiments In Wake Of Enemy Successes

By Howard Altman

Posted on May 13, 2025

Ukraine has, apparently for the first time, released a video showing its use of the Soviet-era S-200 (SA-5 Gammon) long-range surface-to-air missile, a weapon that was apparently reinstated to service only after the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022.
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Our Best Look At Ukraine’s Reactivated S-200 Long-Range Surface-To-Air Missiles In Action

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on May 13, 2025

TOPSHOT - An employee handles 155 mm caliber shells after the manufacturing process at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant (SCAAP) in Scranton, Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. In brick buildings that are more than a century old, nearly in the heart of Joe Biden's Rust Belt hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, dated machinery churns artillery for modern conflicts, especially the war in Ukraine. The Scranton Army Ammunition Plant (SCAAP) is making steel tubes for 155 mm caliber shells, which are crucial to Kyiv's efforts to face down Moscow's invasion. (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
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Shell Game: Inside The Worldwide TNT Shortage

By Howard Altman

Updated on May 12, 2025

Ukraine’s military intelligence service has released details of a new Russian cruise missile, the S8000 Banderol, which it claims makes extensive use of components sourced from foreign manufacturers, including in the United States. Unusually, the missile was apparently developed for launch from drones and has reportedly already been used in combat in the war in Ukraine.
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New Small Russian Cruise Missile Captured By Ukrainian Intelligence

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on May 12, 2025

AeroVironment has rolled out a new long-range loitering one-way attack drone called Red Dragon that the company designed to operate with very "limited user interaction."
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Red Dragon Highly-Autonomous One-Way Attack Drone Unveiled

By Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman

Posted on May 6, 2025

A CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft assigned to the 20th Special Operations Squadron approaches the air-refueling receptacle of an MC-130 Commando II during a night flight at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, Sept. 12, 2024. The Osprey is a tiltrotor aircraft that combines a helicopter's vertical takeoff, hover, and vertical landing qualities with the long-range, fuel efficiency, and speed characteristics of a turboprop aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Gracelyn Hess)
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Electronic Warfare Lessons From Ukraine Informing Air Force Special Operations Future

By Howard Altman

Updated on May 5, 2025

AIM-9 Sidewinder-Armed Ukrainian Drone Boat: What We Know
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AIM-9 Sidewinder-Armed Ukrainian Drone Boat: What We Know

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 5, 2025

Lt. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov told us that Ukraine used drone-boat AIM-9 missiles to down two Russian SU-30 Flankers over the Black Sea.
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Two Russian Su-30 Flankers Downed By AIM-9s Fired From Drone Boats: Ukrainian Intel Boss

By Howard Altman

Posted on May 4, 2025

F-16 Fighting Falcons sit in the boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. on Jul. 30, 2010. The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group is converting F-16s into usable manned or drone targets allowing Air Force to train and test new weapons platforms in the process. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Desiree N. Palacios)
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F-16s Pulled From U.S. Boneyard Are Being Delivered To Ukraine For Spare Parts

By Thomas Newdick, Howard Altman

Posted on May 1, 2025

Conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East have put a huge strain on global TNT and propellant supplies.
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Ukraine Situation Report: U.S. Peace Plan Stumbles After Tumultuous Day

By Howard Altman

Posted on Apr 23, 2025

An example of the Ukrainian BMP-55 heavy infantry fighting vehicle, a radically reworked T-55 tank converted to transport soldiers across the battlefield, has appeared somewhere in Ukraine. While it’s unclear when or where the imagery was taken, this seems to be the first time a BMP-55 has been sighted in an apparently operational context, with suggestions that only one example of these vehicles was ever completed making its appearance all the more remarkable.
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Extremely Rare Ukrainian Heavy Infantry Fighting Vehicle Appears On Battlefield

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Apr 22, 2025

A Russian mechanized assault in Zaporizhzhia oblast might be the vanguard of a new front.
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Ukraine Situation Report: Russia Launches New Southern Assault

By Howard Altman

Posted on Apr 17, 2025

Russia has made few gains in its new offensive in Ukraine.
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New Russian Offensive Has Gained Little Ground So Far

By Howard Altman

Posted on Apr 14, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump derided Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's offer to buy 10 Patriot air defense systems.
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Trump Derides Zelensky’s Request To Buy $15B Worth Of Patriot Air Defense Systems

By Howard Altman

Posted on Apr 14, 2025

Satellite imagery shows work on the first of Russia's Project 23900 big-deck amphibious assault ships, also known as the Ivan Rogov class, is continuing at a shipyard on the occupied Crimean Peninsula.
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Russia’s New Helicopter Carrier Is Taking Shape In Crimea

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 4, 2025

Ukraine is testing uncrewed ground vehicles (UGV) with fiber optic cables.
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Unmanned Ground Vehicles Controlled Via Fiber Optic Cables Being Tested By Ukraine

By Howard Altman

Posted on Apr 4, 2025

Officials in the Russian border city of Shebekino have installed netting on buildings to protect against Ukrainian drone attacks.
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Anti-Drone Nets Now Being Used To Protect Buildings In Russia

By Howard Altman

Posted on Apr 3, 2025

KURAHOVE, UKRAINE - DECEMBER 19: Ukrainian servicemen of the 33rd brigade operate a Leopard battle tank in the direction of Kurahove, Ukraine as Russia-Ukraine war continues on December 19, 2024. (Photo by Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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New Russian Offensive In Ukraine Looms

By Howard Altman

Posted on Apr 1, 2025

Ukraine claims it destroyed two Ka-52 Hockum attack helicopters and two Mi-8 Hip transport helicopters in a missile attack in Belgorod.
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Ukraine Launched HIMARS Attack On Russian Helicopters In Belgorod

By Howard Altman

Posted on Mar 24, 2025

Ukraine Has Another New SAM System That Fires Soviet R-73 Air-To-Air Missiles
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Ukraine Has Another New SAM System That Fires Soviet R-73 Air-To-Air Missiles

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Mar 20, 2025

The European Union has created a new initiative to increase defense spending and boost local arms production.
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New European Union Plan To Boost Local Arms Production Would Freeze U.S. Out Of Billions

By Howard Altman

Updated on Mar 20, 2025

An apparent Ukrainian drone attack targeted Russia’s Engels-2 Air Base in the Saratov region 300 miles from the Ukrainian border, according to available imagery. At this stage it’s unclear whether any Russian aircraft were damaged in the incident, although there are indications that the primary target was a weapons storage area. Long-range bombers flying from the base regularly attack Ukraine and the airfield, and other like it, have long been high-priority targets for Kyiv.
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Massive Explosion Rocks Key Bomber Base Deep Inside Russia

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Mar 20, 2025

Ukraine's Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR) used drone boats to launch FPV drones against Russian radar systems in Crimea.
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Ukraine Launches FPV Drone Attack On Russia’s Air Defenses In Crimea

By Howard Altman

Posted on Mar 19, 2025

Ukraine armored vehicle in belgorod.
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Russia Confirms Ongoing Ukrainian Assault On Belgorod Region

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Mar 19, 2025

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin reached a tentative agreement on a 30-day limited ceasefire.
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Putin-Trump Limited Ceasefire Deal Reached, Ukraine Now Has To Agree

By Howard Altman

Posted on Mar 19, 2025

Our Best Look At Ukraine’s ‘FrankenBuk’ Air Defense System
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Our Best Look At Ukraine’s ‘FrankenBuk’ Air Defense System

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Mar 18, 2025

Two Ukrainian firms, both partnered with American companies, are among those now set to demonstrate long-range one-way drones to the U.S. military as part of a project called Artemis.
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Ukrainian Long-Range Attack Drones To Be Tested By U.S. Military

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Mar 14, 2025

Improved versions of the Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB) are reportedly among the weapons that will be sent to Ukraine after the United States after Washington decided to resume military aid and intelligence sharing with Kyiv. The GLSDB had made its combat debut in Ukraine, but had reportedly performed poorly there, especially due to the effects of Russian electronic warfare, and was last used “months ago.”
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Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb Headed To Ukraine For Its Second Try At Combat: Report

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Mar 14, 2025

Russian President Vladimir Putin has come out ostensibly in favor of a U.S.-brokered proposal for a total 30-day pause in his country's war on Ukraine, but with significant "nuances."
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Putin Open To Ceasefire Deal But Says “Nuances” Must Be Addressed First

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 13, 2025

Pictures have appeared on social media showing work in Ukraine to turn a tethered aerostat – what is more colloquially called a balloon – into an elevated platform for launching kamikaze drones at incoming long-range one-way attack drones.
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Balloon-Launched Drone To Intercept Long Range Kamikaze Drones Emerges In Ukraine

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 12, 2025