To truly understand the grit of the fighting in eastern Ukraine, you have to look past the colored lines on a news map and look at the heavy, rusted reality of Soviet-era steel. In the Kharkiv and Donbas sectors, this isn’t just a war of ideologies; it’s a war of tonnage. Kupiansk isn’t just a…
By the dawn of 2025, the Russo-Ukrainian War had stripped away the last vestiges of 20th-century manoeuvre doctrine, mutating instead into a hyper-transparent, sensor-fused conflict that fundamentally defied conventional Western military expectations. If 2022 was defined by the catastrophic failure of the Russian Blitzkrieg and 2023 by the gruelling, static lessons of the southern counter-offensive,…
Opinion article By Tomáš Iliev The war in Ukraine (Russian aggression), which is now in its fourth year, has evolved into a dangerous conflict that has placed European security at risk and forced Ukraine to fight for its survival and territorial sovereignty. The latest turn in the war came at the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska,…