Opinion

Since the fact of supplying ballistic Fath-360 missiles from Iran to the enemy can be considered a done deal, I would like to comment on this. Especially since a lot has already been written about them. Firstly, “ballistic” does not refer to size or explosive power. It only means that the rocket’s engine operates only during the initial phase of […]

Since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, the country has witnessed the largest wave of ministerial dismissals. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy explains this by saying that government positions require “new energy.” However, many of the successors are current employees of the President’s Office. So, will this “energy” really be all that new? And who exactly will take on the […]

Here’s what the implementation of the strategy “help as much as needed so that Putin cannot win” looks like. The numbers, which are hard to hide behind a pile of words, force a sober understanding of Ukraine’s prospects in the war with Russia, if Kamala Harris becomes the president of the U.S. If Trump becomes president of the U.S., there […]

Yesterday, the President said that the state lacks funds for the production of long-range drones. In fact, during wartime, and this is natural, the state lacks money for everything. The economy is almost non-functional, and there is a shortage of funds in the state treasury, so this limited resource must be managed effectively. Firstly, we shouldn’t expect any “investments” in […]

I am in contact with all our brigades on this front. Over the course of a day, our aerial reconnaissance detects between 250 and 500 enemy infantrymen at the front line, which spans up to 18 km, and in the immediate rear. Some of them advance, some retreat, and some establish positions. In other words, the enemy is not deploying […]

In the “Chechen-Tatarov” story, two people whom I greatly respect attempted to explain or justify Zelensky’s irritation. One wrote that journalists should be far more interested in the war than in Tatarov. The other argued that for the government, Tatarov is a smart manager who knows how to control large processes. I repeat, I have great respect for both of […]

President Zelensky: “The United States and everyone else knows this. Oleg Tatarov, together with Vasyl Malyuk, killed Chechens in Ukraine, in Kyiv, before you were here. Is that not enough? Should I fire him so that the Russians can kill him?” This statement by Zelensky in response to a question from Ukrainska Pravda journalist Roman Kravets caused a major stir […]

Putin needed to reduce internal pressure in Russia and save face by returning the conscripts captured in the Kursk region. On the Ukrainian side, those responsible for the exchanges needed to organize a media “victory” for the holiday, following Soviet traditions. However, there was no place in this formula for the captured Azov fighters, who have been waiting for the […]

It’s time to summarize the strategic and political context of what has been happening over the last two weeks. This text is dedicated to that.  The entire intense discourse surrounding negotiations (both in the West and the East, as well as from internal sources) was based on a simple logic: Russia cannot be defeated in a competition of capabilities, so […]

My biography has taken such a peculiar path that I’ve had the chance to work with various intelligence agencies: Soviet, Ukrainian, and American. So, I know for sure: the main problems for intelligence agencies arise when they are managed not by professionals but by politicians. This very issue seems to have arisen with respect to the Main Directorate of Intelligence […]

Part 1. The latest installment of the media series by The Wall Street Journal about Ukraine’s involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines added little new information, aside from repeating some well-known names, such as the President of Ukraine and the former Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The ongoing “development” of the Ukrainian connection increasingly reminds me […]