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Interview: Why Ukrainian And Russian Forces Are Preparing For A Long War
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Russian forces are edging closer to seizing the last pocket of resistance in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region, with battles raging in Syveryodonetsk and near its sister city, ...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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How Ukraine’s new weapons reflect a very different battlefield
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The HIMARS have been at the top of Ukraine’s wish list, even more so than the fighter jets they were calling for in the beginning of the war. That’s because, as Rita Konaev, d...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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Russia-Ukraine war: What would a victory look like now to Putin?
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Russia’s Victory Day parade is an annual extravagance in Red Square. Falling on May 9, it commemorates the Nazi surrender of World War II with a lavish spectacle meant to proj...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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Will new weapons shipments change the war for Ukraine?
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“They are receiving a great amount of what they need,” Rita Konaev, associate director of analysis at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology told ...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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In Ukraine, civilians shape narrative of the war
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The images stream by like a dystopian slide show: Ukrainian farmers pulling abandoned Russian tanks from black soil. Bodies and buildings shredded in airstrikes. A young woman...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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Chechen Wars Offer a Glimpse of Putin’s Next Move
When I see images of Mariupol’s devastation, watch footage of burnt-out Russian tanks or hear the increasingly frequent Ukrainian accounts of kidnappings and disappearances, a...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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Russian generals are getting killed at an extraordinary rate
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The war in Ukraine is proving extraordinarily lethal for Russian generals, the gray men bedecked in service medals, who are being aggressively targeted by Ukrainian forces and...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev & Jeffrey Edmonds
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What the city of Mariupol means for Ukraine — and for Russia's military campaign
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The southeast Ukraine city of Mariupol has been battered by Russian airstrikes in recent weeks. Among the buildings hit have been a maternity hospital, a theater and an arts s...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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How access to satellite images shifts the view of war
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Rita Konaev, associate director of analysis at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, says satellite imagery "has been an aspect of modern confli...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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The humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ukraine’s cities
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Such shortages, as the war enters its third week, reflect a burgeoning humanitarian crisis — one that could grow far worse for Ukrainians who now have little prospect of escap...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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Russia’s Way of Conducting Urban Warfare Bodes Ill for Kyiv
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The last time that Russian forces fought their way into Kyiv was the autumn of 1943, when the Red Army crossed the Dnieper river and seized the city from Nazi Germany. On Nove...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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Tech on High Alert for Russia's Ukraine Disinformation Offensive
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Russia's Ukraine invasion, seeded by a web of state-backed disinformation campaigns, is putting Big Tech in a bind. Why it matters: How tech firms respond to Russia's disinfor...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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Pentagon Pivot to Asia-Pacific Came Into Focus in 2021 as US Left Afghanistan
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Ending America’s war in Afghanistan was President Joe Biden’s most important foreign policy decision of 2021, cementing a major shift in US military posture and Pentagon prior...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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Forget U.S. Military Aid, Putin Eyes Threat from Turkish Drones in Ukraine
While Russian President Vladimir Putin has condemned the ongoing flow of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine as the Eastern European nation faces off with pro-Moscow separatis...
By Michael Kofman & Margarita "Rita" Konaev
