War

By A.R. Fomenko UKRAINE – Artillery troops in Ukraine opened fire for a sustained barrage against Russian forces – and caught it on video. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence showed an example on Twitter, with battlefield video of rockets being fired at Russian positions. Troops here have been very informative, …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared that Kherson is “ours” after his special forces entered the strategic southern city following the retreat of Russian troops, marking another dramatic battlefield victory in Kyiv’s drive to recapture territory occupied by Russia since the start of its Feb. 24 invasion. The Ukrainian military also …

Russian troops and military forces are launching daily attacks against Ukrainian front line positions in Donetsk, in an area described as one of the hottest in the war. Paratroopers with Ukraine’s 79th Air Assault Brigade say they’re holding positions around the small city of Maryinka. They say Russia has deployed …

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered Russian troops to withdraw from the right bank of the Dnieper River in the partially occupied Kherson region of Ukraine. The move is another retreat amid a number of setbacks for Moscow on battlefields in Ukraine’s east and southeast. Shoigu said at a meeting …

By Safiullah Stanikzai and Soldier of Fortune A former Afghan Defense Ministry official has reiterated claims that Afghan commandos have been recruited to fight as mercenaries in Ukraine. Reports began circulating late last week that the shadowy Wagner group, a private Russian mercenary force with close ties to the Kremlin, is …

by Owen Thorne KYIV – Early this morning, Russian air attacks began across Ukraine. These attacks have beenanticipated in response to the losses inflicted on the Russian Navy at their base in Sevastopol inthe occupied Ukrainian territory of Crimea. With air raid sirens beginning around midnight wewitnessed waves of attacks …

Closed circuit camera broadcasts from Sevastopol have been blocked in the wake of explosions at the Russian naval base there, a Russian official said. “All broadcasts from CCTV cameras in Sevastopol that were previously available to civilians will be closed,” according to Mikhail Razvozhaev, the governor of Sevastopol. His remarks …

The partial mobilization has ended in Russia, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin on Friday. “The deployment of citizens called up for mobilization was completed today. The conscription of citizens has stopped. The target you set – 300,000 people – has been met. No additional assignments are being …

By A.R. Fomenko Ukrainian forces took a bite out of another alligator this week, when anti-aircraft gunners shot down an additional Russian Ka-52 helicopter. Soldier of Fortune saw the helicopter go down on Monday in the Beryslav district of Kherson. It was the third Ka-52 alligator to be shot down …

Ukrainian efforts to shoot down the Shahed-136 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are “increasingly successful” as Russia continues to use the Iranian-made drones against targets across Ukraine, the British Defense Ministry said on October 24. In its regular updates, the ministry said the UAVs are slow, noisy, and fly at low …