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The Ukrainian partisan movement Atesh says Russia is responding by pulling scarce military units—including operators from its elite Rubicon (also spelled Rubikon) drone center—off other duties to guard the tankers. This comes as Ukraine struck 147 vessels of Russia’s sanctions-dodging shadow fleet between 6 and 16 July, collapsing maritime traffic in theContinue Reading

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Mykhailo Fedorov has been credited with reforming defence procurement and tackling corruption., Mykhailo Fedorov has been credited with reforming defence procurement and tackling corruption. Hundreds of people have gathered near the Ivan Franko National Theatre in central Kyiv to protest against the dismissal of Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, as parliamentContinue Reading

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During negotiations with the U.S. in Switzerland last month, the Iranian government reportedly warned Vice President JD Vance that Traitor 47’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner were undermining the chances of a peace deal. Drop Site News reports , citing an unnamed Iranian official, that IranianContinue Reading

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The collapse of Afghanistan in August 2021 is still widely interpreted as a military or political failure. That interpretation is incomplete. Afghanistan collapsed because it lost the cognitive war long before it lost territory. Inside the system, we did not face a simple insurgency. We faced a persistent contest overContinue Reading

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The Iranian aircraft incident has exposed a fragile calm that may not survive a wider regional escalation., In the space of just a few days, Yemen appeared to be slipping out of its fragile de-escalation and back into the heart of regional tensions. The incident involving the Iranian aircraft thatContinue Reading