Ukraine risks renewed armed conflict in the future if it does not recognize the results of referenda ballots Moscow held in 2022 in four Ukrainian regions that Russia claims to have annexed, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Sky News Arabia. The Russian president said Kyiv should recognize the referenda denounced as…
North Korean troops in Russia help Putin beyond sheer manpower needs — they help him at home, too. The ISW wrote on Sunday that Pyongyang’s deployments help Putin avoid another mobilization, for now. Yet, given Russia’s current casualties, that only sustains the war for about three months, ISW said. North Korea’s manpower injection for the…
Vladimir Putin’s troops have stepped up their counterattacks against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region where they have made advances into Kyiv’s salient, it has been reported, as a map shows the latest state of play in the area. Kyiv had said that it has captured at least 500 square miles of territory in the…
The line of contact and captured territories in Russia’s Kursk Oblast. Map: ISW Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have noted that the Ukrainian military was able to take advantage of the situation to launch an operation in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, despite the fact that Russia knew about this and prepared…