The Institute for the Study of War - Archives from 2024/08/18/40836

Russian forces are maintaining a relatively high pace of advance in Donetsk Oblast, indicating that the Russian military command continues to prioriti ...

Russian military bloggers say Ukrainian forces have made little progress in Kursk Oblast amid a general slowdown in Ukrainian operations as Russian fo ...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and other senior Ukrainian officials provided an update on the ongoing Ukrainian incursion into Kursk Oblas ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to portray himself as efficient and competent situation manager on the Ukrainian-Russian border and to shif ...

Ukraine's operation in the Kursk region allowed Ukrainian forces to at least temporarily take the initiative on the battlefield in one area of the fr ...

The Russian The Ministry of Defense (MoD) has issued an official response rejecting the request of the wives of mobilized Russian personnel for a meet ...

Russian military bloggers reacted to the arrival of the F-16s by trying to downplay their potential effect on the battlefield - directly undermining ...

The Kremlin has sharply cut the rights of the "new Russians" to get married, buy property, have bank accounts and drive. This is stated in the dai ...

Russian forces continue to advance slowly and steadily towards Pokrovsk (west of Avdeevka), largely thanks to weak resistance from the Ukrainian milit ...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said , that Israel carried out an airstrike in Tehran, Iran that killed the leader of "Hamas" Ismail Hania. ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to use the threat from nuclear weapons to try to influence Western decision-making. In his July 28 speech d ...

On July 24, Ukrainian forces repelled one of the largest Russian tank attacks in Ukraine since October 2023 in the western part of the Donetsk region. ...

Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrsky said in an interview with the British publication The Guardian, published on July 24, th ...

Russia takes steps to codify terms expanding the official definition of extremism, as part of ongoing efforts to prosecute and silence domestic opposi ...

Russian federal entities are increasing non-standard monetary incentives to hire professional soldiers in the Russian army. This is according to th ...

Ukrainian forces struck a Russian coast guard base in occupied Crimea on the night of the 17 vs. July 18. This is according to the Institute for th ...

Russian state news agencies have redacted the comments of Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev . Official media indicated that ...

The strikes with Ukrainian drones deep inside Russia continue to put pressure on air defenses and force the military command to prioritize the allocat ...

As noted by analysts at the US-based Institute for study of war (ISW) in its daily roundup, Russia and Iran continue their commitment to deepen bilat ...

Chairman of the Defense Committee of the State Duma of Russia Andrey Kartapolov reiterated on July 14 that the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) does ...

First Deputy -Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Lt. Gen. Ivan Khavrylyuk, stressed that serious Western security assistance will be critical to Ukraine& ...

Some unnamed US government officials seem to believe that Ukraine does not need to release its occupied lands and population to win the war, despite r ...

Russian Wing an X-101 missile hit the "Okhmatdit" children's hospital; in central Kyiv during a massive series of missile strikes target ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin used his meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on July 5 to squarely oppose the proposed ceasefir ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has categorically rejected Russian participation in any meaningful negotiations on a ceasefire agreement. Instead, it ...