Daily Archives: Dec 13, 2025

Charles Mitchell

Zelenskyy’s High-Stakes Push for Advanced US Air Power

As Russian bomb and missile onslaughts increase through the coming winter, Volodymyr Zelenskyy's trips to Washington with Lockheed Martin and Raytheon CEOs carried an unmistakable subtext: Ukraine's very survival depends on accelerating its introduction to the latest Western air and missile defence technology and manufacturing it collaboratively. 1. The Critical...
Charles Mitchell

Blackouts in Ukraine as Zelenskyy Presses Trump for Tomahawks

Its silence was broken by the whine of engines scores of missiles and hundreds of drones buzzing through the skies of Ukraine, bound for the energy grid of the nation. Eight regions were at dawn without power, the streets of the capital, Kyiv, silently still except for the thrum...
Charles Mitchell

Russian Jet Downed by Own Defenses Amid Crimea Drone Strikes

They shot down 61 drones last night but one of their own fighter aircraft dropped from the sky. Russian air defense missiles mistakenly killed a Su-30SM in occupied Crimea amid a swarm of nocturnal Ukrainian drone raids, highlighting the tech and operational pressures of withstanding saturation attacks. According to...