Russia blasts Ukraine with thousands of glide bombs every month The bombs are difficult to defeat To suppress the bombardment over the long term, Ukraine could target the Russian aerospace industry Tighter sanctions and drone strikes could disrupt production of new jets The Russian air force is lobbing as manyContinue Reading
Adding thousands of metal “hairs” to a tank helps to protect the tank from first-person-view drones The Russians first fielded these hairy “hedgehog” tanks this fall Now the Ukrainians are building their own hedgehogs, hoping to reduce the impact of Russian FPVs In their never-ending effort to protect armored vehiclesContinue Reading
The Russian salient north of Pokrovsk may have been an elaborate diversion Marching through porous Ukrainian defenses toward Dobropillia, the Russians threatened Ukrainian logistics The march may have had another purpose: to draw Ukrainian reinforcements away from Pokrovsk The yearlong siege of Pokrovsk is coming to an end. At theContinue Reading
A Ukrainian assault company marched south into the contested center of Pokrovsk But it wasn’t a counterattack Elite Ukrainian forces have deployed into Pokrovsk to help cover a wider retreat from the city Pokrovsk and neighboring Myrnohrad could fall to attacking Russians any day now When a company from theContinue Reading
Russian infiltrators are congregating in Pokrovsk The city is likely to fall soon But Ukrainian forces are advancing north of the city Ukrainian counterattacks could establish a new and stronger defensive line North of Pokrovsk, Ukraine is winning. South of Pokrovsk, Russia is winning. Pokrovsk itself is likely lost—but thatContinue Reading
Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica are bracing for Hurricane Melissa. The storm is expected to quickly grow into a powerful category 3 or stronger hurricane.Continue Reading
After a long pause in vehicular assaults, Russian tanks and other armored vehicles are on the move all along the front line in Ukraine Russian mechanized attacks have resumed around Siversk in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast A 23 October attack involving four heavy vehicles and two dozen light vehicles endedContinue Reading
The winter weather is bad for drones, good for vehicles The helps both sides in the current war—in different ways The fighting may evolve as it gets cloudier and colder But the infantry are in for an uncomfortable few months Winter looms in Ukraine. And it’s going to change howContinue Reading
The Russians are attacking with armored vehicles again after a long break Mechanized assaults occur every few days in the east—and now in the south Ukrainian forces have defeated every major mech assault Infiltrating Russian infantry are more successful in “sowing chaos” in key Ukrainian strongholds Russian forces have begunContinue Reading