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Dec 18, 2025
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What are the current frontlines and territory changes between Russia and Ukraine as of December 2025?

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...

Dec 7, 2025
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Why did the Russia-Ukraine conflict start

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...

Dec 12, 2025
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is russia winning the war with ukraine

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...

Dec 19, 2025

How many operational main battle tanks does Russia likely have after 2024–2025 combat losses and retirements?

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...

Nov 26, 2025

How many tanks do Ukraine and Russia currently possess, and how have their inventories changed since 2022?

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: “...

Dec 13, 2025

Steve Witkoff and Jared Corey Kushner are suspected of pursing business deals with aggressor Russia to enrich the Trump family at the expense of Ukraine.

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...

Dec 21, 2025

How have equipment-loss ratios between Russia and Ukraine changed month-by-month since January 2024?

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...

Nov 23, 2025

What independent estimates (OSINT, IISS, UK Ministry of Defence) say about Ukrainian killed and wounded from 2022 to 2025?

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...

Dec 19, 2025

Is Russia recruiting soldiers from other countries?

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...

Dec 8, 2025

who is actually the root cause for the russo-ukrainian war?

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...

Nov 23, 2025

ukraine has more tanks than russia

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...

Dec 14, 2025

iran israel war

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...

Jan 16, 2026

What scenarios do major Western think tanks forecast for the Russia‑Ukraine war in 2026?

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...

Dec 14, 2025

can ukraine win the war on russia by itself

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...

Dec 9, 2025

Putin is preparing a maneuver in Pokrovsk to capture Donetsk, sending 150,000 troops

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...

Jan 22, 2026

Is russia at war with ukraine

Yes — the available reporting shows an active, ongoing and : large-scale Russian military operations, repeated Russian strikes inside Ukraine, into Russian territory, territorial contests and steady c...

Jan 21, 2026

how did the Ukraine-Russia war

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...

Jan 18, 2026

ニュース 速報

世界の主要ニュースを一望すると、地政学的緊張と内政の騒乱、経済の減速予測、そして技術・科学分野の相次ぐ更新が同時並行で進行している。重要な具体例としては、ロシア・ウクライナ戦線での情報戦と限定的攻勢(ISW報告)、米国内で連邦捜査と治安問題が交錯する事件(NPR報道)、そして国際機関の成長見通しの引き下げ(IMF)などが挙げられる()()()。 ロシア軍報告は1月中旬に前線各地で進撃を主張し、幾つ...

Jan 16, 2026

What is the latest on Kotvitski?

There is no direct, corroborated reporting in the provided sources about an individual named "Kotvitski"; the materials instead contain a range of Russia–Ukraine conflict updates and one item referenc...

Jan 8, 2026

Gli americani stanno attaccando l'iran?

No: al momento (inizio gennaio 2026) gli Stati Uniti non stanno conducendo un attacco militare in corso contro l'Iran, ma esistono precedenti recenti di azione militare statunitense in Iran e un clima...