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Adding thousands of metal "hairs" to a tank helps to protect the tank from first-person-view drones The Russians first fielded these hairy "hedgehog" tanks this fall Now the Ukrainians are building their own hedgehogs, hoping to reduce the impact of Russian FPVs In their never-ending effort to protect armored vehicles from the tiny first-person-view drones that are everywhere all the time all along the 1,100-km front line of Russia's wider war on Ukraine, Russian forces have introduced a number of bizarre innovations. The resulting "cope cages" and "turtle," "porcupine" and "hedgehog" tanks are ungainly and, frankly, ugly. But they work....

A Russian military victory in Ukraine would cost Europe twice as much as a Ukrainian victory, according to a new study by Corisk and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs published on Nov. 25. Under the first scenario proposed by the researchers, Moscow's forces would continue their incremental advance and push westward toward the Dnipro River. As a result of their military victories, the Kremlin would force Ukraine to accept a negotiated settlement on terms beneficial to Moscow. According to the report, such an outcome would amount to a Russian partial victory, giving the Kremlin influence over Ukraine's political and...

The Russian military has more armored vehicles than it did on the eve of Russia's wider war on Ukraine in February 2022. And for one main reason. Despite losing as many as 16,100 vehicles in action in Ukraine, the Russians have more than compensated for these losses by pulling nearly 13,000 old vehicles out of long-term storage—and complementing these older vehicles with around 4,000 brand-new vehicles.

Without Iraq-style lies about Russia, the collusion hoax, the impeachment farce, and the 51 intel officials laundering deception for political gain, there likely would have been no Russia-Ukraine war. The proposed Ukraine peace deal has shaken the political class that insisted escalation with Moscow was the only acceptable course. How, they ask, can Russia possibly walk away with concessions? Part of this is simply material: Russia has ground out battlefield gains and retains the manpower and resources to sustain the war indefinitely. But that is only one dimension of it. The fuller answer reaches back long before the first tanks...

NATO is weighing a more "proactive" and "aggressive" posture in countering Russia's hybrid-warfare campaign — potentially including "preemptive" actions, said Italian Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone. Dragone, NATO's most senior officer and chair of the alliance's Military Committee, made the remarks in response to myriad attacks at the hands of Russia, including sabotage, cyberattacks, and airspace violations. "We are studying everything. ... On cyber, we are kind of reactive," Dragone said. "Being more aggressive or being proactive instead of reactive is something that we are thinking about." Dragone added that a "preemptive" strike could be considered a "defensive action," adding that...

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin said he is ready to go to war with Europe, accusing EU leaders of sabotaging peace talks with the US. “We are not planning to go to war with Europe, but if Europe wants to and starts, we are ready right now,” Putin warned.

Putin gambled on Western hesitation, and now a war born of miscalculation grinds on because neither Moscow nor NATO is willing—or able—to force a decisive end. Why did the war in Ukraine start in 2021?As in 2008 and 2012, but unlike 2017 to 2021, Vladimir Putin sensed an American president would not or could not deter him, so he invaded a former Soviet republic. Under past presidents, Putin saw no downside to grabbing Ossetia, the Donbas, and Crimea. Putin was also led to believe the West or Joe Biden would not challenge him following the recent humiliating U.S. withdrawal from...

At least two people were killed and dozens injured after Russia launched a drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv which lasted through the night and left some 600,000 people without power.Video SummaryRussia struck Kyiv with drones and missiles before dawn, killing at least two and injuring dozens in residential areas—the second attack on the capital this week. Residents call it terrorism meant to exhaust civilians and force acceptance of a US-Russia 28-point peace plan widely seen as Moscow’s wishlist. A Ukrainian delegation is traveling to the US for talks after Zelensky replaced his scandal-hit chief of staff...

Russian forces have surrounded the embattled Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk and control 70% of it, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, but Kyiv's top general said Ukraine was pushing back hard and that fighting was raging in the city centre. Moscow has been trying to take full control of Pokrovsk, which Russians call by its Soviet-era name of Krasnoarmeysk, since mid-2024 as part of its push to take the whole of the wider Donbas industrial region. Instead of mounting a full frontal assault on the city, which used to be home to over 60,000 people and be an important logistics...

Ukraine releases videos of their naval drones striking 2 Russian shadow fleet oil tankers off the Turkish Black Sea coast

The former top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday told The Post he is headed to the frontlines — hours after he submitted his resignation from the position in the wake of a raid on his home by Kyiv’s national anti-corruption bureau. “I’m going to the front and am prepared for any reprisals,” Andriy Yermak told The Post in an impassioned text message Friday night. “I am an honest and decent person.” He then apologized if he no longer answers calls. He did not say when or how he intended to go to the frontlines of the war...

NATO/EU/eurowanker house of cards falling apart...

Ukrainian law enforcement agencies have opened nearly 290,000 criminal cases related to unauthorized absence from military duty and desertion since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the Prosecutor General’s Office told the Ukrainska Pravda news outlet on Oct. 14. From January 2022 to September 2025, investigators registered 235,646 cases of unauthorized absence from service and 53,954 cases of desertion. This is a sharp increase compared to the same period between January 2022 and September 2024, when approximately 90,000 cases were recorded — around 60,000 for unauthorized absence and 30,000 for desertion.

Yet another grotesque scandal from western Ukraine is tearing apart the carefully curated heroic facade that globalist western leaders have built around Zelensky’s increasingly authoritarian government in Kyiv.According to a report from the Ukrainian news outlet Pravda, Ukrainian investigators have finally arrested the head of a regional draft center after he allegedly savagely beat a conscript in the groin, inflicting such severe damage that surgeons had no choice but to amputate one of the man’s organs.The assault is said to have unfolded in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk when the victim dared to refuse a fluorographic exam amid Ukraine’s notoriously chaotic...

Putin is offering Ukraine a deal: If Ukrainian forces withdraw from the contested territories, Russia will immediately cease all military operations. Should they refuse to do so, Russia will compel their withdrawal through force until peace is achieved.

LINES of dragons’ teeth bollards protect Ukraine from Russian attacks in the “fortress belt” tyrant Vladimir Putin insists must be surrendered before any ceasefire can be agreed. The Sun on Sunday’s Defence Editor Jerome Starkey visited to see the barricades and tank trap trenches that President Volodymyr Zelenksy says would take four years to breach. The UK’s Defence Intelligence experts predict 1.9million Russian troops would become casualties in the time it would take to overcome the belt — the best defended position in war-ravaged eastern Donbas. It stretches 30 miles from Slovyansk to Kostyantynivka in Donetsk Oblast [province] of which...

Ukraine has made a significant change to one of the key points of the US peace plan by excluding the verification of international aid, according to The Wall Street Journal.A senior US official told reporters that the original wording of the plan called for an audit of all international aid received by Ukraine, presumably to identify potential corruption.However, this requirement is no longer included in the new version of the plan. Instead of verification, it is proposed that all parties receive full amnesty for their actions during the war.

Vice President Vance fired back at Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday after the former Senate republican leader warned the Trump administration not to appease Russian President Vladimir Putin in the emerging Ukraine peace deal.“This is a ridiculous attack on the president’s team, which has worked tirelessly to clean up the mess in Ukraine that Mitch–always eager to write blank checks to Biden’s foreign policy–left us,” Vance wrote in a post on the social platform X.“I wonder if the three candidates to replace McConnell in Kentucky share his views here,” he continued.Vance was responding to a quote from McConnell, who...

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers voted on Tuesday to deepen integration of the bloc’s defense industry with Ukraine as a U.S. peace plan remains in flux and Russia’s unconventional warfare operations rattle the 27-nation bloc. European Parliament legislators voted 457-148, with 33 abstentions, to approve a 1.5-billion euro ($1.7 billion) program, with 300 million euros ($345 million) slated for the Ukraine Support Instrument. Raphaël Glucksmann, an EU lawmaker from France’s S&D party, said that the defense program “will enable us to build a more resilient and sovereign Europe” through partnering with Ukraine to build a cutting-edge military industrial complex....

Ukraine has said a "common understanding" has been reached with the US on a peace deal aimed at ending the war with Russia.The proposal is based on a 28-point plan presented to Kyiv by the US last week, which American and Ukrainian officials worked on during weekend talks in Geneva.In a post on social media, US President Donald Trump said the original plan "has been fine-tuned, with additional input from both sides".He added: "I have directed my Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with President Putin in Moscow and, at the same time, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll will...