Tag: Russia

Ukraine’s newest weapon should terrify Russia’s flailing strategists

Crimea – totemic, strategically essential, Putin’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier” – is starting to look unseaworthy.There are four main arteries supplying it. To the...

Russia accused of beheading Ukrainian soldiers

The beheaded body of a Ukrainian soldier was discovered by an aerial reconnaissance team on top of a damaged military vehicle on Monday.It...

One-Two Punch From the Skies Is a Massive Blow to Putin

Ukraine’s military has spent the last two years chronically short of planes. Its prewar stocks were already small in number and mostly dated...

Shunned by West, Russian army deserters live in fear

Russian officer Farkhad Ziganshin had prepared himself for a life of military service since a young age. He could never have imagined that...

Russians told to mobilise to inflict 'maximum harm' on West in response to sanctions

By Andrew Osborn(Reuters) - One of Russia's top security officials called on Thursday for Russians to mobilise to inflict "maximum harm" on Western...