11+ hour, 23+ min ago  (251+ words) Last fall, the Russian Center Group of Forces laid siege to Kostiantynivka, a city with a pre-war population of 67, 000 in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast. Eight months later, the city is on the verge of falling to Russian infiltrators. "We are…...

11+ hour, 27+ min ago  (313+ words) Trench Art | David Axe Ukrainian Engineers Keep Squeezing More Fuel Into The Best Deep Strike Drones A Fire Point FP-1 can now range 3, 000 km This story was commissioned by Euromaidan Press. Since Substack pays only around a fifth of my…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (138+ words) Trench Art | David Axe A Month Ago It Cost Ukraine $6, 000 To Drone A Russian Cargo Truck. Now It Costs $500. Counterlogistics just got a lot cheaper. How, all of the sudden, are Ukrainian first-person-view drones ranging 30 miles to strike Russian trucks…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (191+ words) Hundreds of Ukrainian drones and cruise missiles pummeled Moscow early on Thursday. For the first time since Russia widened its war on Ukraine 52 months ago, Ukrainian deep strike forces have bombarded the Russian capital with the same intensity that Russian…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (338+ words) This story was commissioned by Europe's Edge. Since Substack pays only around a fifth of my bills, I have no choice but to take on a lot of freelance work. I still want my Substack audience to know where to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (232+ words) This story was commissioned by Euromaidan Press. Since Substack pays only around a fifth of my bills, I have no choice but to take on a lot of freelance work. I still want my Substack audience to know where to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (215+ words) This story was commissioned by Euromaidan Press. Since Substack pays only around a fifth of my bills, I have no choice but to take on a lot of freelance work. I still want my Substack audience to know where to…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago  (159+ words) Trench Art | David Axe Why Hasn't Ukraine Droned This Obvious Russian Backup Bridge? Isolating Crimea from overland logistics requires constant strikes. Ukrainian forces are determined to cut Russian forces" supply lines into occupied Crimea in southern Ukraine. Striking trucks, trains,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (222+ words) As more of Ukraine's A. I. -assisted drone fill the sky over the Russian logistical zone in occupied Ukraine, a Russian commander has ordered military truckers to keep off the main highway connecting Russia proper to Russian field armies in southern Ukraine....

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (206+ words) Russia's main objective in Ukraine this year is to capture Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, the last two big free cities in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast. The Russians have two options. One, to attack toward Kramatorsk'the southernmost of the twin cities'from the…...