Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air defenses shot down a Ukrainian “long-range operational-tactical missile”—a designation describing a ballistic weapon, and the first Russian claim of its kind in the full-scale war, Russia’s Ministry of Defense reported on 1 July. The admission is the news. A ministry that has spent fourContinue Reading
He flashed his phone screen across the table. A mother in the Kyiv metro cradling her newborn, hiding from the Russian missiles that so often fall from the night sky in Ukraine. “That could be you with your children, your baby.” Sir Richard Shirreff had taken that photo earlier atContinue Reading
In some areas of the front, the Russians are “losing the concept of layered air defense,” a company commander with Ukraine’s 413th Unmanned Systems Regiment “Raid,” callsign Churchill, told Euromaidan Press. As Ukrainian drones and missiles pick off radars and launchers one by one, the layers that once covered eachContinue Reading
Ukraine is beginning to fly its glide-bombing jets in escorted pairs—one low with the bombs, one high to drive off Russian fighters—and the Swedish Gripen jets it has on order could make that tactic far more effective, Euromaidan Press defense writer David Axe reported. Explore further Ukrainian jets now flyContinue Reading
Ukraine’s campaign to sever Russia’s supply lines into occupied Crimea could eventually force Moscow out of occupied Kherson Oblast, and then Crimea itself, the Azov Corps has said on the record. Asked by Euromaidan Press whether a “Kherson 2.0” was possible, the formation’s press service answered plainly: “Kherson Oblast andContinue Reading
Russia cannot simply buy its way out of the air-defense shortage leaving occupied Crimea and southern Ukraine open to Ukrainian strikes, because the bottleneck is microchips, not money. That is the assessment of a Ukrainian commander whose unit hunts Russian air-defense systems for a living. A money problem Russia couldContinue Reading
Ukraine’s campaign to sever Russia’s supply lines into occupied Crimea could eventually force Moscow out of occupied Kherson Oblast, and then Crimea itself, the Azov Corps has said on the record. Asked by Euromaidan Press whether a “Kherson 2.0” was possible, the formation’s press service answered plainly: “Kherson Oblast andContinue Reading
Russia regenerated diesel engines that one of its own industry representatives publicly described as “previously unrecoverable,” enabling the return of roughly 1,000 1970s-vintage T-72A tanks from long-term storage and completing a broader effort that has restored or set in motion the restoration of around 5,100 Soviet-era tanks, defense analyst DavidContinue Reading