War - Publications

Pause in US military aid: What can be bought from international markets or replaced with domestic alternatives

Ukraine's defense forces: Three years of resilience and battlefield success

An Austrian colonel reflects on operations and achievements that have redefined military strategy

Ukraine bolstering its warfighting and defense industrial capacities as the war enters into its fourth year

Peace without compromise

Putin doesn't need any settlement deal other than Ukraine’s complete surrender, but is the new administration in the U.S. fully aware of the Kremlin’s real intentions? Meanwhile, Russia's imperial ambitions haven't gone anywhere.

Ukraine Latest: Weekly Digest for January 27 – February 2, 2025

Ukraine Latest: Weekly Digest for December 30, 2024 – January 5, 2025

Ukraine Latest: Weekly Digest for December 23-29, 2024

Ukraine Latest. Weekly Digest for December 9-15, 2024

Ukraine Latest: Weekly Digest For December 2-8, 2024

US President-elect Donald Trump: “Zelensky and Ukraine would like to make a deal and stop the madness.” President Zelensky:  fatalities among Ukrainian soldiers since the outset of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 have reached 43,000,

Ukraine Latest: Weekly Digest for November 25 – December 1, 2024

President Zelensky: "NATO welcoming Ukraine into the alliance could halt ‘the hot stage’ of the war, while Russia would temporarily keep the territory it overtook”

Putin’s dreams of partitioned Ukraine. The West will never accept another Munich-1938

The origination of this idea by Putin means only one thing: there is zero chance of the war coming to an end any time soon.

Nuclear Doctrine and Nuclear Blackmail: How the Kremlin Uses Them Against Ukraine and to Destroy International Security

On November 19, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin approved an updated nuclear doctrine by decree. The document allegedly expands the Kremlin’s capabilities to use this type of weapon of mass destruction.

1,000 days of full-scale war against Ukraine: what it means for the world

The full-scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine has lasted for 1000 days. During this time, the Ukrainian people and the state have demonstrated an unprecedented and exceptionally high level of resilience, unity, and will to win. After all, the fight is not only for sovereignty and territorial integrity but for the very existence of the Ukrainian people, who, as it has turned out, can only exist within their own national state.

1,000 Days of the Great War: What Lessons We Have Learned About Ourselves, About Our Friends and Our Foes

We are resilient to extremely difficult challenges. Our enemy has transformed itself along the war. And the world is guided primarily by interests rather than values.

Ukraine Latest: Weekly Digest for November 4-10, 2024

Donald Trump is elected the 47th president of the United States. The validity of martial law in Ukraine has been extended for further three months, until 7 February 2025. Ukraine’s kamikaze drone strikes hit Russian warships in Caspian Sea for the first time

How Russia uses protests by relatives of POWs in information warfare

Unable to overcome Ukraine’s resistance on the battlefield, Russia is increasingly focusing on information and psychological pressure on Ukrainians. In 2025, the Kremlin’s propaganda budget will rise by 13% to a record $1.4 billion.

FUTURE FORCES FORUM 2024: Defense Technologies and Lessons from Ukraine

For the first time in over two and a half years of open military aggression by Russia against Ukraine, Europe has had the chance to learn firsthand from those directly involved in the conflict.

Ukraine Latest. Weekly Digest for October 21-24, 2024

The first military units from North Korea are set to be deployed for combat in the Russo-Ukrainian war as early as October 27-28. Ukraine is set to receive $50 billion in G7/EU loan by year’s end

Ukraine Latest: Weekly Digest for October 14-20, 2024

President Zelensky has set out his five-point Victory Plan to the the Verkhovna Rada, European Union leaders. The Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting rescheduled for some day in November

Ukraine Latest: Weekly Digest for October 7-13, 2024

Rada has passed tax-raising law. The Ukrainian military struck an ammunition storage site at Khanskaya military airfield in Russia's Adygeya region, hit oil depots in several different regions in Russia. Ukrainian forces won back part of their lost positions in Russia’s Kursk region

Defeating the Russian way of war in Ukraine

Two U.S. combat veterans and military experts reflect on the ongoing artillery standoff on Ukraine's battlefields, taking note of counterbattery successes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Ukraine Latest: Weekly Digest for September 30 - October 6, 2024

Military airfields, oil and fuel storage facilities in Russia under attacks by Ukraine’s Armed Forces. Ukraine will set out further measures to the forthcoming Rumstein Format meeting to achieve a just end to the war with Russia

Ukraine Latest: Weekly Digest for September 23-29, 2024

US has announced nearly $8 billion in weapons aid, including JSOW air bombs, to Ukraine

Ukraine Latest: Weekly Digest for September 16-22, 2024

Russia is about to attack nuclear power plants in Ukraine ahead of the cold season. Ukraine has banned Telegram on work devices for military and government employees . The EU to loan €35 billion to Ukraine

Ukraine Latest: Weekly Digest for September 9-15, 2024

Russian counteroffensive against Ukrainian forces holding part of the Kursk region is proceeding to Ukrainian plan; 152 Ukrainian POWs have returned back home from Russian captivity.  

Iran’s Fath-360 missiles: Interceptable, but destroyed launchers would do better

That’s just one more reason for the Allies to lift restrictions on supplying long-range munitions and permitting Ukraine to use them against military targets on Russian soil

Ukraine Latest: Weekly Digest for September 2-8, 2024

Ukrainian Armed Forces Chief Commander, Oleksandr Syrsky: over the past six days, the adversary has failed to advance even one single meter toward Pokrovsk. Lithuania provides EUR 10mn to support procurements of new Palyanytsia missiles by Ukraine

Kursk incursion has forced Moscow to change its SVO objectives

On September 6, it turns one month since Ukrainian forces, on 6 August, crossed the border near Sumy into the Kursk region of Russia. Ukrinform has found out which of its objectives the incursion achieved so far.

Explaining complex things in simple words: Tragedy in Poltava, Kursk operation, demarche of Mongolia

The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security pursues efforts to provide a brief explanation to foreign audiences on the current topics of particular interest as regards Ukraine.   

Ukraine Latest: Weekly Digest for August 26 - September 1

Ukraine has successfully test-fired its first ballistic missile, mounted most massive drone attack on targets in 12 different regions in Russia, damaging Kapotnya oil refinery in Moscow among other sites