Daily Archives: Mar 18, 2026

In less than a year, the Ukrainian drones caused shutdowns at more than half of the large refineries in Russia-a turn of events few military analysts predicted when the war began. The fire on November 11, 2025, at Saratov's Rosneft-operated plant-which can handle 20,000 metric tons of crude daily-was...

"There is no airpower without airports." This century-old military truth became painfully relevant for Russia on October 17, 2023, when Ukraine's first combat use of American-made ATACMS missiles erased a significant portion of Moscow's helicopter fleet in occupied territory. The operation, codenamed DRAGONFLY, was much more than a tactical...

As the old adage goes, "In war, the first casualty is truth." But in the latest exchange between Ukraine and Russia, truth is contested in real time, not just in dueling statements but in missile trajectories and radar returns. The confirmed use by Ukraine of U.S.-supplied ATACMS against Russian...