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Russia closes in on eastern city despite Ukraine’s successes elsewhere
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“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
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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
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“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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Ukraine’s F-16 Ambitions Snarled by Language Barrier, Runways and Parts
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“People shouldn’t expect miracles” from the F-16s against Russia, said Jim Townsend, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. And in terms of vulnerabilities...
By Jim Townsend
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NATO Is Helping Ukraine to Fight—but Not to Win
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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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How Can Europe Reduce Its Military Dependency on the United States?
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“European armies are too small to handle even the arms that they’ve got now,” said Jim Townsend, a former U.S. assistant secretary of defense now at the Center for a New Ameri...
By Jim Townsend
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NATO summit becomes high-stakes test of Biden’s fitness
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President Biden’s fitness for office will be put to the test this week during the NATO summit he is hosting in Washington, a high-stakes endurance test that gives the presiden...
By Jim Townsend
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Putin Shows He Can Antagonize the U.S. Far Afield From Ukraine
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Georgian PM Slams U.S. Criticism Of Draft Law That Sparked Mass Protests
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Nicholas Lokker, an analyst at the Center for a New American Security, says the introduction of the bill is a sign the Georgian Dream government is trying to maintain good tie...
By Nicholas Lokker
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The Very Real Limits of the Russia-China ‘No Limits’ Partnership
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“What’s even more important is what Russia is having to give away in return” for what it’s getting from China, said Andrea Kendall-Taylor, director of the Transatlantic Securi...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russia’s wartime production fuels its economy
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“Russia’s economy shifted to war-economy mode,” said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. “Nabiullina, her credentials, her exper...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Putin’s War Will Soon Reach Russians’ Tax Bills
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The proposed tax increase underscores Mr. Putin’s rising confidence about his political control over the Russian elite and his country’s economic resilience at home, showing t...
By Richard Connolly
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Congress finally advanced aid to Ukraine, but is it too little, too late?
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This was massively needed, but it’s not a silver bullet,” added Nicholas Lokker, a research associate for the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American S...
By Nicholas Lokker
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NATO chief’s final battle: Protecting Ukraine from Trump, US
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“This is not just Trump-proofing, but U.S.-proofing in some ways,” said Jim Townsend, an adjunct senior fellow with the Center for a New American Security and a former senior ...
By Jim Townsend
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Trump-proofing weapons for Ukraine: Allies consider moving arms group into NATO
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Formalizing the group within NATO would go a long way toward protecting support for Ukraine from changes in U.S. and Western governments, experts said — and particularly from ...
By Jim Townsend
