The war in Ukraine is at a stalemate. Neither side has made any significant territorial gains in months, and Ukraine’s top military commander said there will “most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough.” It’s been five months since Ukraine launched its counteroffensive. Despite successful attacks on Russian supply lines, weapons depots, command posts, missile…

Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia isn’t going as quickly as some in the West would like. Ukraine doesn’t care. Just take it from the country’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba. He said, “Criticizing the slow pace of the counteroffensive equals spitting in the face of the Ukrainian soldier who sacrifices his life everyday moving forward and liberating…

Following the collapse of the Black Sea grain deal, Russia said if a foreign ship in the Black Sea sails to a Ukrainian port, Russia’s navy will treat that ship as hostile. Russia went on to say the flagged country of those ships will be treated as a Ukrainian ally. The Russian Ministry of Defense…

A Russian general appears to be one of the first officials to suffer consequences after Wagner Group mercenaries staged a brief rebellion. Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the deputy commander of the Russian group of forces fighting in Ukraine, has reportedly been detained. It’s not clear where Surovikin is detained, or whether he has been charged with…

Russia said it stopped a large-scale attack from Ukraine, but it’s still not clear if it was the start of Ukraine’s latest counteroffensive. The Russian Ministry of Defense posted a video to its Telegram channel on Monday, June 5, claiming it stopped Ukrainian advances along five sectors of the frontlines in Donetsk. The ministry said…

If Russia can’t take Bakhmut from Ukraine, it may be content with just burning the whole city to the ground. In drone video released by Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, images show what appeared to be white phosphorus raining down on the city’s buildings. White phosphorus ignites on contact with air. It burns at about 1500…

If sharing is caring, Russia could not care less about the United States. On March 29, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow was halting all information exchanges with Washington. Russia already said it was pulling out of the new START treaty. It was the last arms control pact between the U.S. and Russia.…

New images released by Russia’s Defense Ministry shows a supersonic missile launching and successfully hitting a target in the Sea of Japan. Two of the medium-range missiles that were launched are capable of destroying a ship within 75 miles. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the missiles successfully hit a mock enemy sea target. Japan has responded…

For the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian tactical nuclear weapons are being deployed outside the country’s borders. Russian President Vladimir Putin said he’s deploying the weapons because the U.K. gave armor-piercing shells containing depleted uranium to Ukraine. Russian President Putin has announced today that they will soon begin Deploying a…

Time may be running out for the Russian private military company, the Wagner Group. Most of the mercenaries fighting for Wagner are about to go home, and what fighters do remain could soon be cut off from the rest of Russia’s armed forces. Last fall, Wagner recruited heavily in Russian prisons to bolster its ranks.…