Daily Archives: Mar 16, 2026

"This is a brazen violation of international law," Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda declared in words that cut through the diplomatic haze surrounding military provocations. The newest Russian intrusion into NATO airspace lasted a brief 18 seconds, but its reverberation went well beyond Lithuania's borders. Over the past months, the Baltic...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's recent declaration "If the Kremlin blackmails Kyiv with blackouts, they should understand Moscow can also be blacked out" was not a show of bravado. It was the first salvo of Ukraine's latest cycle of asymmetric operations, deploying domestically developed long-range drone and missile systems to strike...

The path to today's air defense stance in Crimea started not with a turn of a single decision, but with a series of strategic steps by Moscow to strengthen one of its most strategically vulnerable areas. Over the last few months, the peninsula has become the area for operational...