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Russian forces control roughly 19–20% of Ukraine as of mid-December 2025, having gained several thousand square kilometers during 2024–25 and continuing modest, steady territorial advances through lat...
The Russia–Ukraine war began with Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, driven by Kremlin leadership seeking to control Ukrainian territory and political orientation; Moscow’s aim...
Russia’s tank fleet has been pummeled by battlefield losses and accelerated retirements in 2024–2025, and open-source trackers and defence analysts paint a picture of a force sharply smaller than Mosc...
Russia has not achieved an outright, decisive victory in Ukraine despite recent territorial gains; ISW reports Russian forces gained roughly 243 square miles over four weeks to Dec. 9, 2025, and Russi...
Public reporting and OSINT show large but uncertain changes in Russian and Ukrainian tank inventories since February 2022: multiple sources report Russia suffering thousands of tank losses (Reuters: “...
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin for nearly five hours on Dec. 2 as part of U.S. efforts to press a peace plan for Ukraine and then briefed President...
Since January 2024 open-source and intelligence reporting show Russian equipment losses outpacing Ukrainian losses by a wide margin, with aggregate attrition ratios reported variably between roughly 5...
Independent and open-source estimates of Ukrainian killed and wounded from Feb 2022 through 2025 are fragmented and contested: Western analysts and OSINT projects give wide ranges rather than single a...
reporting shows has struck power and heating infrastructure on n soil, including a heat-and-power station in the region and power/heating plants in border cities such as , as part of a sustained long‑...
Russia is actively recruiting non-Russians—both by law and by practice—through new decrees, targeted online campaigns, and expanded enlistment pathways that reach foreigners, prisoners and migrant com...
Claims that “Ukraine has more tanks than Russia” are not supported by the available sources: multiple open-source tallies and expert trackers indicate Russia still fields and stores substantially more...
The available sources identify Russia — and specifically President Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin — as the primary initiator and continuing principal actor driving the war that escalated with the full‑scale...
The Ukraine–Russia war traces back to a contest over Ukraine’s orientation and territories that erupted into open conflict after Russia’s covert seizure of Crimea in 2014 and expanded dramatically whe...
Major Western think tanks converge around a small set of plausible 2026 futures for the Russia–Ukraine war: a prolonged, high‑intensity war of attrition that continues into 2026; limited Russian tacti...
The June 2025 Iran–Israel war — often called the “Twelve‑Day War” — saw Israel and the United States strike Iranian nuclear and military sites beginning 13 June, and Iran respond with missiles and dro...
Ukraine cannot be separated from the international political, economic and military context in assessing whether it can “win” against Russia on its own: Russia occupies almost 20% of Ukrainian territo...
Russian officials and state media claim they have seized Pokrovsk and are poised to push deeper into Donetsk; independent battlefield analysts and Ukrainian statements show fighting continues in and a...
’s fleet is dominated by three modernized -designed families—T-72B3 variants, T-80BVM, and the newer /T-90M2—with open-source analysis estimating these types make up roughly 65–70% of Russia’s MBT for...
Independent open‑source investigators have published geolocated video and photographic analyses, aircraft/drone track reconstructions, satellite imagery reviews and compilations tying long‑range drone...
The reporting provided does not include any item that specifically documents an event in on ; there is no direct source in the set that says “this happened on 2025.1.6” (p1_s1–4). What can be assemble...