Opinion

What threatens the freezing of the war in Ukraine and what potential the Russian army will have in three years. Oleksandr Kovalenko’s analysis. Talks that the war in Ukraine could be put on pause have been going on for years – in fact, they started right after Russia started having trouble getting an offensive in 2022. In most cases, the […]

The monitoring group of the Black Sea Institute for Strategic Studies and BlackSeaNews is not surprised to report that miracles in this world have not ended, and we no longer have any anger or disappointment – only sarcastic laughter. So, on December 7, 2023 at 02:40, the tanker AVENCA, IMO 9410002, brought 50 thousand tons of Russian oil products by […]

Why don’t we have enough Western military support, and why is developing Ukraine defense industry is a necessary condition for winning (NOT losing) the war? According to various estimates, Russia has increased its arms production by at least a third. Putin said that “the production of the main types of weapons has increased 2.7 times over the year, and in […]

Theses for the national rescue program by Oleksandr Kochetkov. He outlined certain points. These are not dogmas – they can be changed, supplemented, etc. And this is not an exhaustive list. This is my personal vision of where to start. 1. PUBLIC ACKNOWLEDGMENT BY THE AUTHORITIES THAT THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS DOES NOT LEAD TO VICTORY OR EVEN TO […]

Zaluzhnyi is not someone Zelenskyy should be afraid of. So far, the general has given no indication that he plans to begin a political career. Neither should Zelenskyy be afraid of Budanov, who enjoys greater trust and love among the TikTok plankton.  He should be afraid of the “enemy in the bed,” namely Andriy Yermak, who gets closer and takes over Volodymyr Oleksandrovych’s powers.  Marina Daniluk-Yarmolaeva investigates. The authoritative American media outlet Politico has published the 2023 most influential […]

Why don’t we have enough Western military support, and why is developing our defense-industrial complex a necessary condition for winning (NOT losing) the war? According to various estimates, Russia has increased its arms production by at least a third. Putin said that “the production of the main types of weapons has increased 2.7 times over the year, and in the […]

The missing piece of the puzzle on how the Kremlin uses gas weapons to break Germany’s support for Ukraine by Michael Gonchar. It seems that the Germans are beginning to see the motives behind Russia’s sabotage of Putin’s streams on September 26, 2022. A number of publications were published in the German media (see link 1, link 2, link3). In […]

There is a debate in society about students who are not drafted into the army. They say that they are our future, who will raise the country after the war, and they are children. At the same time, all non-students are being drafted into the army. Even those who are involved in defense projects, and on whom it depends whether […]

Russia’s large-scale war against Ukraine, which has been going on for 21 months, has entered a critical period. Today, a lot depends on a balanced assessment of the enemy’s intentions. This text was written to convey to the public how the Kremlin perceives this war. Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine published an excellent analytics on the mentioned topic by Oleksandr […]

“Civilians have always been involved in wars: some work in the rear, some carry out sabotage.” Cyber Alliance member in exclusive interview to DOU.UA on hackers in war and questionable rules of the Red Cross. “The Ukrainian Cyber Alliance (UCA) is a community of Ukrainian cyber activists that emerged after several hacker groups merged in 2016. Its main goal was […]

The current stage of violent military confrontation in Ukraine resembles the situation faced by the Soviet Union in early-mid 1942, when the country and army survived the first shock of the German Blitzkrieg, Wehrmacht troops were driven back from Moscow, the German offensive actually stopped, and the Soviet “broad-front offensive” (Rzhev-Vyazma operation) turned out to be a bloody adventure. Lend-Lease […]

Serhii Naiev, Lieutenant General, Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, outlined his chronology of events on the eve of the full-scale invasion and the first months of resistance to the Russian-Belarusian military aggression. In his account of the events, he uses such phrases as “we managed to foresee,” “my inner feelings,” “my prediction was right.” This […]