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Between Victory and Disintegration: Zaluzhnyi’s Stark Choices for Ukraine – and for Europe
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, now Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom and formerly Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, has set out one of the starkest assessments yet of the war and its political context. In a long essay for the Kyiv outlet…
Russian strategic missile test ends in mid-air explosion over Orenburg
A suspected test of a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from the Yasny launch area in Orenburg region on 28 November ended in a mid-air failure, with the rocket breaking up and exploding a short distance from the silo. Multiple…
Drone attack on Grozny military compound prompts disruption at North Caucasus airports
A drone has struck a military town in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechen Republic, damaging a building used by the Russian National Guard and prompting the temporary suspension of flights at several airports across the North Caucasus. The incident…
Ukrainian strike reportedly destroys rare Russian laser aircraft at Taganrog
Ukrainian forces have carried out one of their deepest and most technically significant strikes of the war, hitting the Taganrog-Yuzhny airfield and the adjacent Beriev aviation complex in Russia’s Rostov region overnight on 24–25 November. Open-source imagery and Russian regional…
Ukrainian drones strike major Shaturskaya power plant near Moscow
A major fire broke out at the Shaturskaya State District Power Plant (GRES) in Russia’s Moscow region on Sunday after what local authorities said was a Ukrainian drone attack, in one of the deepest confirmed strikes on Russia’s power infrastructure…
Polish rail sabotage highlights Europe’s exposure to hybrid attacks
The sabotage of a key railway line linking Warsaw with Lublin has moved Poland’s security debate from the abstract to the immediate, and renewed questions about whether Europe is treating Russia’s hybrid campaign as a real war rather than a…
Ukraine Uses Long-Range Neptune Missiles in Strike on Novorossiysk Port
Ukraine’s General Staff has identified a series of strategic targets in Russia hit in a recent long-range strike, saying that Ukrainian-made Neptune cruise missiles and attack drones were used against the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and energy facilities in…
Nuclear Testing Revisited: Trump, Putin and the Future of Deterrence
Nuclear testing, long regarded as part of the Cold War’s past, has returned to the diplomatic agenda. Recent remarks by President Donald Trump about restarting United States nuclear tests “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, followed by an…
Hold, Reinforce or Withdraw? Ukraine’s Dilemma in the Pokrovsk–Myrnohrad Pocket
Pokrovsk has become the latest case study in how rapidly evolving battlefield technology is being constrained by something as old-fashioned as the weather. As dense fog and autumn rain settle over the eastern Ukrainian city, both Russian and Ukrainian forces…
Kyiv confirms mass Flamingo missile strike on Russian and occupied targets
Ukraine has confirmed the first massed use of its domestically produced Flamingo long-range missile in a night-time strike package that hit “several dozen” targets across Russia and occupied Ukrainian territory, including oil infrastructure, airfields and command posts. In a statement…