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Ukraine’s Marauding Sea Drones Bewilder Russia
On December 31, a Ukrainian naval drone destroyed a Russian Mi-8 helicopter for the first time using missiles launched from the unmanned craft. Two days later, Ukraine managed...
By Samuel Bendett
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Analysis: Should Putin Be Worried About Trump’s Threats of New Sanctions?
By Rachel Ziemba
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The Kremlin Shrugs At Trump's New Sanctions Threat. But Should Putin Be Worried?
Since long before his inauguration this week and his election in November, President Donald Trump has been promising to broker an end to Russia's war against Ukraine while pro...
By Rachel Ziemba
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U.S. Urged to Bolster Global South Ties to Counter China-Russia Partnership
The US must strengthen relations with the Global South and increase its military presence in the Indo-Pacific to counter the growing China-Russia partnership, two authors said...
By Richard Fontaine
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Russia Has Used Its Hypersonic Oreshnik Missile for the First Time. What Are Its Capabilities?
The silent black-and-white surveillance camera video of the Russian missile attack in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro was brief but chilling: Six huge fireballs pierced the darkn...
By Jim Townsend
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Russian Nuclear Doctrine Change Does Not Indicate Imminent Attack, Pentagon Says
The United States sees “no indications” that Russia is prepping for a nuclear attack, the Pentagon said Tuesday, despite the Kremlin’s announcement of a change in nuclear post...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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North Korean Arms More Significant than Troops in Russia’s War Against Ukraine
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, got to the point in his presidential address last night: “Another state,” he said, was “joining the war against Ukraine”. He was refe...
By Richard Fontaine
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U.S. Worries Deepen as Adversaries Team Up to Challenge Dominance
Moscow, meanwhile, is deepening relationships as it shares more sensitive military knowhow with Beijing, Tehran and Pyongyang in return for their war aid. That process has acc...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Washington and the West Struggle for a Way Forward with Putin’s Russia
Putin has repeatedly sought to amplify Western fears. He recently spelled out plans to revise Russia’s nuclear doctrine, which currently states that Russia would use nuclear w...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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How Ukraine Could Get Caught in Assassination Attempt Crossfire
Experts stressed to NatSec Daily that while Routh’s views on the war and time in Ukraine are ripe for a disinformation campaign, they’re more immediately worried about what th...
By Jim Townsend
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Russia Closes In on Eastern City Despite Ukraine’s Successes Elsewhere
“There’s some evidence that the Russians are actually engaging the last proper defensive line outside of the town outside of Pokrovsk,” said Franz-Stefan Gady, a Vienna-based ...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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As Ukraine Pushes Deeper Into Russia, Moscow Sends Reinforcements
Military analysts said the attack across the border had involved elements of at least four brigades in a rare example of successful maneuver operations involving support from ...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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‘Axis of Upheaval’ Adds Urgency to Review of UK Defence Spending
“Russia has been the catalyst of this,” said Richard Fontaine, the co-author of an April paper in Foreign Affairs entitled The Axis of Upheaval. A desperate search for munitio...
By Richard Fontaine
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NATO Is Helping Ukraine to Fight—but Not to Win
It’s an approach that stands in stark contrast to the administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war, for which senior administration officials have outlined a dubious but ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Putin Shows He Can Antagonize the U.S. Far Afield From Ukraine
Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said there was now an increased risk of an unintended escalation, where one side takes an act...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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With All Eyes on Kharkiv, Russian Troops Take One Donbas Village After Another
FPV drones account for about 90% of the injuries over the past half a year, according to medic Oleksii, with the 130th Territorial Defense Brigade deployed near Chasiv Yar. Ol...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Steps Up a Covert Sabotage Campaign Aimed at Europe
Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a former U.S. intelligence official, said Russia’s plan might be to weaken European resolve. While that outcome may be doubtful, she said it was importa...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Why Growing China-Russia Military Ties Worry the West
Beyond technology, Russia's importance as a supplier for Beijing would increase significantly if China fought a war over Taiwan, according to Andrea Kendall-Taylor, director o...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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China-Russia: an economic ‘friendship’ that could rattle the world
Moscow’s increasing reliance on Beijing does not necessarily bother the Kremlin, says Andrea Kendall-Taylor, director of the transatlantic security programme at the Center for...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russian Forces Push Deeper Into Northern Ukraine
Part of the Russians’ plan with this overall attack, military analysts said, is to threaten Kharkiv and force Ukraine to divert troops from other battlefields, especially thos...
By Franz-Stefan Gady