After disastrous wars in Chechnya and Afghanistan, Russia found it hard to recruit soldiers. But it has worked hard to rememdy this problem.
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Ukraine has warned that Russia could soon be pumping out 1,000 drones a day. Iranian technology has driven that growth.
The country’s defence industry needs approximately 400,000 more workers than it currently employs.
Russia has made advances into eastern Ukraine, but the human cost is an estimated 53 casualties per square kilometre seized.
To upgrade its drones, Moscow has been adding Sim cards to transmit data back to Russia and updating anti-detection methods.
There are considerable risks for Ukraine if it chooses to fight on rather than seek a deal to end the war with Russia.
North Korea’s pact with Putin means sending thousands of troops to fight in Ukraine. But losses are significant.
‘Smart-mines’, ‘toe-poppers’, trip-wire: Russia has planted millions of such devices in Ukraine. One NGO, now employing Australia’s former ambassador to the country, is bravely tackling the problem.
Putin could have used the Ukraine offensive into Kursk as an excuse to ramp up conscription.
Deploying a series of new tactics and weapons, including the first use of sea drones in combat, Ukrainian forces have created what one military analyst called ‘a turning point in naval strategy.’
Russia’s recent attack on a children’s hospital is likely the sign of declining military performance.
Russia isn’t likely to put nuclear missiles in space, but their reported anti-satellite weapon is just as alarming. An expert on nuclear strategy explains.
The downing of two important Russian aircraft show how stretched the invaders’ air force has become.
By the time Australia has its first nuclear-powered attack submarine, Russia’s Pacific fleet will have grown to 45 warships.
With US aid to Ukraine locked in a partisan battle over security at the US southern border, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy faces the possibility of losing his largest supporter.
When links with the past are destroyed, there is a loss of opportunity to continue a way of life, to live in the place one’s parents and grandparents lived.
An analysis of tweets posted by the Ukrainian national government and the Kyiv city government in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 shows a national resilience.
Claiming the moral high ground in any war isn’t just about justifying a war effort — it’s also about how a war is fought. Both Ukraine and Russia, sadly, have plenty of civilian blood on their hands.
The slow pace of the Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russia doesn’t suggest military success for Ukraine is impossible.
The options facing the Kremlin’s economic and military planners.
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