by Timofei Rozhanskiy As fighting raged in an around Bakhmut amid Russia’s unrelenting assault earlier this year turning the eastern Ukrainian city to rubble, a Russian conscript began plotting how he would desert shortly after being deployed there. Anton (not his real name) said he was given a two-week leave in …

“Places we thought were safe, are not safe,” one resident told Soldier of Fortune. Russia launched extensive missiles attacks that killed at least five people and wounded dozens more in Kyiv and Kharkiv, officials in Ukraine said on Tuesday. The barrage was unlike previous attacks, and hit areas of Kyiv …

The Moscow party included one man who was jailed for wearing only a strategically placed sock. But Putin attended a St. Petersburg club where performers wore nothing. A Russian investigative group has cried foul against the Kremlin for denouncing an “Almost Naked” 2023 Christmas party at a Moscow nightclub, saying …

Iran has sent a warship into the Red Sea, Iranian state media reported on January 1. The 51-year-old destroyer Alborz entered the Red Sea through the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait, according to the Tasnim news agency. The news group is tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The ship …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating Is Vladimir Putin dead? Should we believe the “insider” who announced on Telegram that the Russian president died again, and that a fresh coup is underway in Moscow? Or should we trust the extraordinary denial from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov that the report is an …

by Susan Katz Keating The United States Navy sunk three Houthi speedboats in the Red Sea early Sunday morning, following another attack on a merchant ship as tensions continue to rise in the region.   Helicopters from the USS Eisenhower and the USS Gravely responded to a distress call from …

The Glock company tells us their founder, Gaston Glock, passed away today at the age of 94. “With visionary foresight, Gaston Glock built his company and led it to the top of the world with the internationally valued Glock Perfection,” the company said in a statement. “Until the very end, …

The 71-year-old Russian leader made the remarks during his annual marathon press conference and call-in event on December 14 in Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he will continue the war on Ukraine until he achieves his goals, and insisted while speaking to an AI body double that he …

by Susan Katz Keating Hamas on Friday released a slick new video threatening high-impact attacks on Israel. The terrorists’ PR department, it seems, is still in Hollywood mode. As if they are going for an Oscar for “Best Terrorist Short Feature.” The video shows what appears to be a newly …

Victor Manuel Rocha was targeted by FBI counterintelligence agents who suspected he was a Cuban intelligence officer, one security source told Soldier of Fortune. by Susan Katz Keating He loved Fidel Castro, reviles the United States, and feels comradeship with Cuban intelligence agents, as per his own admissions. He isn’t …