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Russian forces are pressing on two axes from occupied Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast. The 7th Rapid Reaction Corps of Ukraine’s Airborne Assault Forces reported on 16 April that Ukraine’s defense forces are holding the northern outskirts of Pokrovsk and striking Russian troop concentrations before assault groups can form. Infantry fightingContinue Reading

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Washington misread Iran, overestimated its own leverage and found itself trapped in a costly 40-day war of attrition., The developments following the 12-day war between Iran and Israel did not lead to de-escalation, but rather to a redefinition of the conflict on a much broader scale. While volatile negotiations betweenContinue Reading

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On February 4, 2026, The Washington Post ’s Ukraine correspondent, Lizzie Johnson, announced on X that she had been laid off, via email, “in the middle of a warzone” —left behind in Kyiv by a ruthless wave of layoffs at the Jeff Bezos–owned paper. Johnson’s stranding at the imperiled fringesContinue Reading