At what cost to the future of the country he supposedly cares so much about?
Ukraine - Russia Conflict (Original Title: Things are heating up in the Donbass)
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I just said that because I think Russia has gotten to the point where they are boxed in. They have really misplayed their Ukraine initiative and their strategy has been wholly ineffective. As a result their own domestic economy and supply lines are now regularly being targeted and severely impacted and it's having an affect on Russian citizens where there is growing anxiety and frustrations internally. The Russian government surely is aware of this and like every government they are always concerned about losing power.
Russia is totally bogged militarily while their own economy is under stress. They have completely lost the military initiative which is a huge problem for them now. They have bad options and worse options, but they have to do something because they can't keep doing this forever.
Also, for THIS EXACT reason I am very worried that the US is falling into a similar trap with Iran and the strait of Hormuz.
Compared to the cost of allowing the West to continue fracturing and destroying Russian state, like it was done to Yugoslavia. This didn't begin with Ukraine.
.....and it's not Putin's propaganda. I lived through all of this and can see the big picture.
Robin
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holdover
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Neither Russia nor Ukraine are going to quit. period. dont even think that. the war isnt even close to being over
The Russians and also the Ukrainans can take a beating and get back up again . WW2 demonstrated they dont care about the cost, only the objective .the punishment they are taking is no where even remotely close to what they took in WW2
The Russians and also the Ukrainans can take a beating and get back up again . WW2 demonstrated they dont care about the cost, only the objective .the punishment they are taking is no where even remotely close to what they took in WW2
holdover
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This is a little disconcerning, probably to many bad actors comming through
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WW3 Monitor (@WW3_Monitor) on X
RUSSIAN MEDIA: RUSSIA HAS NOW CLOSED ALL BORDER CROSSINGS WITH FINLAND, ESTONIA AND LATVIA ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
holdover
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WW3 Monitor (@WW3_Monitor) on X
Russian Media: More than 1.2 million Russians could be mobilized in Russia, they are announcing a large-scale and record-breaking mobilization as early as October ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
Steal2B
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If true it looks like Russia plans on contuing it's "human wave" strategy referred to as "meat assaults" (Мясные штурмы) where poorly supported infantry formations are sent to frontal Ukrainian defensive lines in waves.WW3 Monitor (@WW3_Monitor) on X
Russian Media: More than 1.2 million Russians could be mobilized in Russia, they are announcing a large-scale and record-breaking mobilization as early as October ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
This strategy has led to staggering Russian casualty rates as their command tries to exploit a population pool advantage hoping consecutive waves of more expendable infantry will break lines by force, expose Ukrainian firing points, and exhaust ammunition supply.
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This is a little disconcerning, probably to many bad actors comming through
WW3 Monitor (@WW3_Monitor) on X
RUSSIAN MEDIA: RUSSIA HAS NOW CLOSED ALL BORDER CROSSINGS WITH FINLAND, ESTONIA AND LATVIA ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
This probably to protect against possible NATO attack on Kaliningrad enclave and sabotage that can precede it.
holdover
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please show me where that actually happened.
You know as well as I do that drones have taken a serious toll on both sides. Mistakes were made , throw in the lethality of modern weapons and you have a serious mess.
But you know ,id have to see it to believe it. witnesses or drone footage or something like that. In fact one of the things both sides have done is to infiltrate in small 3 man teams
If the Russians were as bad as you seem to think, the Ukrainians would have drove them back to the border already.
and Ill bet a nickel that part of the reason for the heavy casualties on the Russian side is due to American and British advisors guideing in ordanance and drone strikes .
holdover
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Im definitely thinking spotters or sabotage , drone operators? maybe ? human recon
Steal2B
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Ok, but you can easily find examples yourself. Russian Wave strategy battles have been in use over years in this conflict. They range from massive wave meat grinders to smaller more frequent waves of million cuts that also have had high body counts.
Russian forces, heavily utilizing North Korean troops, employed "wave-style" tactics in the Kursk region from December 2024 through early 2025
During this same period in Bakhmut and Avdiivka, Russian commanders heavily utilized penal units (such as Storm-Z and Storm-V) and waves of poorly equipped infantry.
In mid 2025 in the Chasiv Yar and Donbas Axes Russian Commanders persistently pushed multiple continuous smaller assault waves of 10 to 20 soldiers to infiltrate and overwhelm Ukrainian defensive positions. The wave tactics here were re-branded as "a million cuts"
Russian military commands in Vuhlrdar heavily relied on ineffective frontal assaults against entrenched Ukrainian flanks, resulting in catastrophic combat losses and the near-total destruction of several elite Russian brigades.
It's been a long war with high Russian (including battlefield allies) body counts and examples go on and on. You can easily search for independent open source intel, open source Al and world wide media content for Russian wave strategies used during the conflict.
Here is an example BBC article, there are more and better articles but hey, it's for your convenience
Russia's meat grinder soldiers - 50,000 confirmed dead
In the second 12 months on the front line the body count was nearly 25% higher than in the first year.
www.bbc.com
I haven't followed as closely as many others here have done, but I thought Russia has been shifting more away from large scale storm assaults or meat waves, and have shifted their "assault" units to more 3-6 man infiltration teams that spend a week trying to sneak in through the drone no man's land kill zones and once they have enough numbers of survivors organized they may try to attack a position.
It seems like a complete cluster
It seems like a complete cluster
holdover
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Thats what they have been doing. both sides too.
Steal2B
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They did recently evolve on some fronts.
The going back to "meat grinder" wave strategy conversations are tied to posts about new significant Russian military mobilization / staffing / recruitment for this fall.
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IMO it's more of the same.
Need to bring in replacements for losses either as casualties or to replace other conscripts whose term is expiring and they are released.
Could also be adding more than usual due to potential escalation and expansion of the war on new fronts (Belarus, Finland, Baltic etc) and trying to proactively up force strength.
I know it's different cultures and different tolerances for casualties but I'm honestly shocked at what has happened in this conflict and it's not getting the attention and perspective it should. By most impartial accounts Russia has had more casualties in this conflict than the US had in ww2. Let that sink in and think that over. Ukraine has had major casualties as well, the number is less than Russia but might be a larger percentage of their population. And not to forget by some estimates there are 1 million Ukrainian military aged males who fled the country to avoid being conscripted. The ukranian economy is a mess due to loss of literal manpower.
I just can't fathom how much of a hellscape this conflict has turned into. And as others have said, I don't think it's remotely close to over. I think it's far more likely it expands and drags on more fronts and countries than it ends peacefully.
holdover
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As Russians fought for the city of Vuhledar it used "ineffective human-wave style frontal assaults", according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
"Challenging terrain, a lack of combat power, and failure to surprise Ukrainian forces", it said, led to little gains and high combat losses.
Another significant spike in the graph can be seen in spring 2023, during the battle for Bakhmut - when the mercenary group, Wagner, helped Russia capture the city.
Wagner's leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, estimated his group's losses around that time to be 22,000.
Russia's capture of the eastern-Ukrainian city Avdiivka last autumn also led to another surge in military deaths.
Your experts at the institute for the study of war are full of shit. first off they name 3 specific places all of which are urban combat. which is notoriously bloodly fights anywhere in the world. its par for the course .
2nd off they are a propaganda outlet run by liberal chicks barely 35 years old and a few possibly homosexual looking dudes. and few even which have ever served in the military .
Ill post a few
Jennifer Cafarella is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Ms. Cafarella works closely with ISW’s President, Board of Directors, and other senior leaders to envision, scope, and develop new programs supporting long-term growth of the Institute. Ms. Cafarella is also an ISW National Security Fellow and leads the Institute’s Geopolitical Risk Analysis practice, which builds upon the foundational work of ISW’s open-source analysis on ongoing and potential conflicts in Ukraine, Russia, China, and the Middle East. She regularly advises senior military leaders as well as policymakers on the threats the US and its allies face. She also briefs financial services companies and investors regarding global risk and geopolitical forecasts.
Christina Harward is the Russia Deputy Team Lead on ISW’s Russia Team. She contributes to ISW’s daily Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment as a writer and editor. Before coming to ISW, Christina interned with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where she co-led a student project forecasting shifts in Russian, Chinese, and Iranian foreign policy in the coming decades. Christina previously graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia, and danced professionally in Estonia and the United States.
Christina’s research at ISW focuses on the Black Sea region, with a particular emphasis on Russian efforts to interfere in Moldovan and Romanian politics. Christina speaks and reads Russian.
Katie Kelly joined the Defense of Europe Project as a Researcher on June 1. Prior to joining ISW, she served as an intelligence analyst at the Northern Virginia Regional Intelligence Center (NVRIC) for several years, focused on threats to Virginia’s critical infrastructure. She also interned with the former International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Katie graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) with a Master of Arts in International Relations focusing on European security. She received her BA in Global Studies from Loyola University Maryland.
Anjou Kang-Stryker is a Russia Researcher at the Institute for the Study of War. His work builds on foundations in Russian historical research and prior experience at the Jamestown Foundation, where he edited for the Eurasia Daily Monitor and designed research on Russian espionage and sabotage recruitment patterns in Europe.
Anjou is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he studied history and Russian. Besides military analysis, Anjou takes particular interest in the Russian sociocultural landscape, Russian occupation in Ukraine, hybrid warfare, and the historical makings and continuities of Russian power. His honors thesis dissected experiential tropes of social ills in 1990s Russia presented in postmodernist literature.
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Kid was a student 3 years ago WTF??
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Dude ,this is a bullshit site, I was useing them when the war broke out , and they failed to post accurately about what was happening in the war often times days late on any developments This is a propaganda site . I dont think any of them are over 35
anything comming off this site is utter bullshit , or cherry picked , or spun . its not a legitimate source.
the BBC isnt a whole lot better , Ill give you the casualty rate is high , but the human wave assaults are pretty funny , at least generally speaking,
"Challenging terrain, a lack of combat power, and failure to surprise Ukrainian forces", it said, led to little gains and high combat losses.
Another significant spike in the graph can be seen in spring 2023, during the battle for Bakhmut - when the mercenary group, Wagner, helped Russia capture the city.
Wagner's leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, estimated his group's losses around that time to be 22,000.
Russia's capture of the eastern-Ukrainian city Avdiivka last autumn also led to another surge in military deaths.
Your experts at the institute for the study of war are full of shit. first off they name 3 specific places all of which are urban combat. which is notoriously bloodly fights anywhere in the world. its par for the course .
2nd off they are a propaganda outlet run by liberal chicks barely 35 years old and a few possibly homosexual looking dudes. and few even which have ever served in the military .
Ill post a few
Jennifer Cafarella is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Ms. Cafarella works closely with ISW’s President, Board of Directors, and other senior leaders to envision, scope, and develop new programs supporting long-term growth of the Institute. Ms. Cafarella is also an ISW National Security Fellow and leads the Institute’s Geopolitical Risk Analysis practice, which builds upon the foundational work of ISW’s open-source analysis on ongoing and potential conflicts in Ukraine, Russia, China, and the Middle East. She regularly advises senior military leaders as well as policymakers on the threats the US and its allies face. She also briefs financial services companies and investors regarding global risk and geopolitical forecasts.
Christina Harward is the Russia Deputy Team Lead on ISW’s Russia Team. She contributes to ISW’s daily Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment as a writer and editor. Before coming to ISW, Christina interned with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where she co-led a student project forecasting shifts in Russian, Chinese, and Iranian foreign policy in the coming decades. Christina previously graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia, and danced professionally in Estonia and the United States.
Christina’s research at ISW focuses on the Black Sea region, with a particular emphasis on Russian efforts to interfere in Moldovan and Romanian politics. Christina speaks and reads Russian.
Katie Kelly joined the Defense of Europe Project as a Researcher on June 1. Prior to joining ISW, she served as an intelligence analyst at the Northern Virginia Regional Intelligence Center (NVRIC) for several years, focused on threats to Virginia’s critical infrastructure. She also interned with the former International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Katie graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) with a Master of Arts in International Relations focusing on European security. She received her BA in Global Studies from Loyola University Maryland.
Anjou Kang-Stryker is a Russia Researcher at the Institute for the Study of War. His work builds on foundations in Russian historical research and prior experience at the Jamestown Foundation, where he edited for the Eurasia Daily Monitor and designed research on Russian espionage and sabotage recruitment patterns in Europe.
Anjou is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he studied history and Russian. Besides military analysis, Anjou takes particular interest in the Russian sociocultural landscape, Russian occupation in Ukraine, hybrid warfare, and the historical makings and continuities of Russian power. His honors thesis dissected experiential tropes of social ills in 1990s Russia presented in postmodernist literature.
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My name is Anjou Kang-Stryker and I will be a U4 student in history during the upcoming semester. This summer, I spent two and a half months working remotely with the Jardins de Métis on a history research project for their exhibition on the exotic plants they grow at the gardens and the rich history behind them.
Kid was a student 3 years ago WTF??
Grace Mappes is a Russia Analyst on the Russia/Ukraine portfolio at the Institute for the Study of War. Grace is an alumna of the Hertog War Studies Program and supported ISW’s Russia/Ukraine portfolio as an intern during the buildup to and initial weeks of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Her research interests include Kremlin societal control, domestic extremism in Russia, and Russian global energy politics.
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understandingwar.org
Dude ,this is a bullshit site, I was useing them when the war broke out , and they failed to post accurately about what was happening in the war often times days late on any developments This is a propaganda site . I dont think any of them are over 35
anything comming off this site is utter bullshit , or cherry picked , or spun . its not a legitimate source.
the BBC isnt a whole lot better , Ill give you the casualty rate is high , but the human wave assaults are pretty funny , at least generally speaking,
holdover
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or it could be , they are massing for an attack on Karkieve, thats what some of the rumors are now. its only 40 miles from the russian border and the russians have been inching closer . that would be an infantrymans fight for sure
Steal2B
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Isw was only one of several references. Story didn't change without them, it was a pretty consistent concensus and AI confirmed they were plagiarizing some reputable Intel in lieu of doing their own work. BBC story link was given since it matched other sources, I already spent more time on the subject than I cared for, some other potential links to post had pay walls, were not in English (users would need to translate if not fluent) or were not accessible from those using a US IP address.As Russians fought for the city of Vuhledar it used "ineffective human-wave style frontal assaults", according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
"Challenging terrain, a lack of combat power, and failure to surprise Ukrainian forces", it said, led to little gains and high combat losses.
Another significant spike in the graph can be seen in spring 2023, during the battle for Bakhmut - when the mercenary group, Wagner, helped Russia capture the city.
Wagner's leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, estimated his group's losses around that time to be 22,000.
Russia's capture of the eastern-Ukrainian city Avdiivka last autumn also led to another surge in military deaths.
Your experts at the institute for the study of war are full of shit. first off they name 3 specific places all of which are urban combat. which is notoriously bloodly fights anywhere in the world. its par for the course .
2nd off they are a propaganda outlet run by liberal chicks barely 35 years old and a few possibly homosexual looking dudes. and few even which have ever served in the military .
Ill post a few
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Jennifer Cafarella is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Ms. Cafarella works closely with ISW’s President, Board of Directors, and other senior leaders to envision, scope, and develop new programs supporting long-term growth of the Institute. Ms. Cafarella is also an ISW National Security Fellow and leads the Institute’s Geopolitical Risk Analysis practice, which builds upon the foundational work of ISW’s open-source analysis on ongoing and potential conflicts in Ukraine, Russia, China, and the Middle East. She regularly advises senior military leaders as well as policymakers on the threats the US and its allies face. She also briefs financial services companies and investors regarding global risk and geopolitical forecasts.
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Christina Harward is the Russia Deputy Team Lead on ISW’s Russia Team. She contributes to ISW’s daily Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment as a writer and editor. Before coming to ISW, Christina interned with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where she co-led a student project forecasting shifts in Russian, Chinese, and Iranian foreign policy in the coming decades. Christina previously graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia, and danced professionally in Estonia and the United States.
Christina’s research at ISW focuses on the Black Sea region, with a particular emphasis on Russian efforts to interfere in Moldovan and Romanian politics. Christina speaks and reads Russian.
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Katie Kelly joined the Defense of Europe Project as a Researcher on June 1. Prior to joining ISW, she served as an intelligence analyst at the Northern Virginia Regional Intelligence Center (NVRIC) for several years, focused on threats to Virginia’s critical infrastructure. She also interned with the former International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Katie graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) with a Master of Arts in International Relations focusing on European security. She received her BA in Global Studies from Loyola University Maryland.
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Anjou Kang-Stryker is a Russia Researcher at the Institute for the Study of War. His work builds on foundations in Russian historical research and prior experience at the Jamestown Foundation, where he edited for the Eurasia Daily Monitor and designed research on Russian espionage and sabotage recruitment patterns in Europe.
Anjou is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he studied history and Russian. Besides military analysis, Anjou takes particular interest in the Russian sociocultural landscape, Russian occupation in Ukraine, hybrid warfare, and the historical makings and continuities of Russian power. His honors thesis dissected experiential tropes of social ills in 1990s Russia presented in postmodernist literature.
17 Oct 2023
Arts Internship Spotlight
My name is Anjou Kang-Stryker and I will be a U4 student in history during the upcoming semester. This summer, I spent two and a half months working remotely with the Jardins de Métis on a history research project for their exhibition on the exotic plants they grow at the gardens and the rich history behind them.
Kid was a student 3 years ago WTF??
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Grace Mappes is a Russia Analyst on the Russia/Ukraine portfolio at the Institute for the Study of War. Grace is an alumna of the Hertog War Studies Program and supported ISW’s Russia/Ukraine portfolio as an intern during the buildup to and initial weeks of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Her research interests include Kremlin societal control, domestic extremism in Russia, and Russian global energy politics.
Education
The University of Texas at Austin - College of Liberal Arts
Bachelor of Arts - BA, International Relations and Global Studies
Aug 2017 – May 2022
Russian Minor, Security Studies Certificate
People
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Dude ,this is a bullshit site, I was useing them when the war broke out , and they failed to post accurately about what was happening in the war often times days late on any developments This is a propaganda site . I dont think any of them are over 35
anything comming off this site is utter bullshit , or cherry picked , or spun . its not a legitimate source.
the BBC isnt a whole lot better , Ill give you the casualty rate is high , but the human wave assaults are pretty funny , at least generally speaking,
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spat
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The fundamental difference is that Ukraine is fighting for it's very existence.
Nobody seems to know what Russia is fighting for.
If Russia gives up, they go back to where they were 5 years ago.
If Ukraine gives up, Ukraine ceases to exist.
Which of those is more likely to motivate the troops ?
Are there any sites that provide reasonably objective reporting on this conflict?As Russians fought for the city of Vuhledar it used "ineffective human-wave style frontal assaults", according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
"Challenging terrain, a lack of combat power, and failure to surprise Ukrainian forces", it said, led to little gains and high combat losses.
Another significant spike in the graph can be seen in spring 2023, during the battle for Bakhmut - when the mercenary group, Wagner, helped Russia capture the city.
Wagner's leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, estimated his group's losses around that time to be 22,000.
Russia's capture of the eastern-Ukrainian city Avdiivka last autumn also led to another surge in military deaths.
Your experts at the institute for the study of war are full of shit. first off they name 3 specific places all of which are urban combat. which is notoriously bloodly fights anywhere in the world. its par for the course .
2nd off they are a propaganda outlet run by liberal chicks barely 35 years old and a few possibly homosexual looking dudes. and few even which have ever served in the military .
Ill post a few
View attachment 285097
Jennifer Cafarella is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Ms. Cafarella works closely with ISW’s President, Board of Directors, and other senior leaders to envision, scope, and develop new programs supporting long-term growth of the Institute. Ms. Cafarella is also an ISW National Security Fellow and leads the Institute’s Geopolitical Risk Analysis practice, which builds upon the foundational work of ISW’s open-source analysis on ongoing and potential conflicts in Ukraine, Russia, China, and the Middle East. She regularly advises senior military leaders as well as policymakers on the threats the US and its allies face. She also briefs financial services companies and investors regarding global risk and geopolitical forecasts.
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Christina Harward is the Russia Deputy Team Lead on ISW’s Russia Team. She contributes to ISW’s daily Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment as a writer and editor. Before coming to ISW, Christina interned with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where she co-led a student project forecasting shifts in Russian, Chinese, and Iranian foreign policy in the coming decades. Christina previously graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia, and danced professionally in Estonia and the United States.
Christina’s research at ISW focuses on the Black Sea region, with a particular emphasis on Russian efforts to interfere in Moldovan and Romanian politics. Christina speaks and reads Russian.
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Katie Kelly joined the Defense of Europe Project as a Researcher on June 1. Prior to joining ISW, she served as an intelligence analyst at the Northern Virginia Regional Intelligence Center (NVRIC) for several years, focused on threats to Virginia’s critical infrastructure. She also interned with the former International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Katie graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) with a Master of Arts in International Relations focusing on European security. She received her BA in Global Studies from Loyola University Maryland.
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Anjou Kang-Stryker is a Russia Researcher at the Institute for the Study of War. His work builds on foundations in Russian historical research and prior experience at the Jamestown Foundation, where he edited for the Eurasia Daily Monitor and designed research on Russian espionage and sabotage recruitment patterns in Europe.
Anjou is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he studied history and Russian. Besides military analysis, Anjou takes particular interest in the Russian sociocultural landscape, Russian occupation in Ukraine, hybrid warfare, and the historical makings and continuities of Russian power. His honors thesis dissected experiential tropes of social ills in 1990s Russia presented in postmodernist literature.
17 Oct 2023
Arts Internship Spotlight
My name is Anjou Kang-Stryker and I will be a U4 student in history during the upcoming semester. This summer, I spent two and a half months working remotely with the Jardins de Métis on a history research project for their exhibition on the exotic plants they grow at the gardens and the rich history behind them.
Kid was a student 3 years ago WTF??
View attachment 285101
Grace Mappes is a Russia Analyst on the Russia/Ukraine portfolio at the Institute for the Study of War. Grace is an alumna of the Hertog War Studies Program and supported ISW’s Russia/Ukraine portfolio as an intern during the buildup to and initial weeks of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Her research interests include Kremlin societal control, domestic extremism in Russia, and Russian global energy politics.
Education
The University of Texas at Austin - College of Liberal Arts
Bachelor of Arts - BA, International Relations and Global Studies
Aug 2017 – May 2022
Russian Minor, Security Studies Certificate
People
ISW is dedicated to improving American and allied decision-making on conflict and national security threats. This is our team.
Dude ,this is a bullshit site, I was useing them when the war broke out , and they failed to post accurately about what was happening in the war often times days late on any developments This is a propaganda site . I dont think any of them are over 35
anything comming off this site is utter bullshit , or cherry picked , or spun . its not a legitimate source.
the BBC isnt a whole lot better , Ill give you the casualty rate is high , but the human wave assaults are pretty funny , at least generally speaking,
holdover
.475 A&M Magnum
Good question.Ive looked at the times of india and believe it or not, Aljazeera regarding the Ukraine war, not the Israeli conflicts some indepenants inside the US are good too. Main stream is a one way train. but I also observe the maps , where the battles are who won what , I can get a lot of info just by the maps . But the main stream is just fucking awfull. then of course you have both sides lying for obvious reasons so it is hard to get a really accurate account of whats happening. I am very skeptical of the main stream. when it comes to anything, policys, vaccines whatever, they tell the side their told to tell.
All the main stream will tell you Russia is on the brink of collaspe since the war started and they keep repeating it .
holdover
.475 A&M Magnum
Maybe?
Steal2B
.700 Nitro Express
Private news sites are a business and anymore click bait headlines are more profitable that objective reporting.
State supported media that claims to be objective can be outright propaganda (like TASS), or accused of spin by selective reporting ("BBC News is widely considered one of the most reliable, impartial, and accurate news sources in the world. Governed by a strict royal charter requiring impartiality, it consistently earns top marks for global trust and independence, though it occasionally faces criticisms of bias.")
Even foreign media considered nuetral in the conflict has reporting spin based on the reporter or editor but BBC, Al Jazeera and India Times usually align if reporting on the same topic with the Russian - Ukraine war. Take everything with a grain of salt, lean towards intel sites with open source reporting and try to avoid relying on just one site.
If you have a question on reporting you've seen, (be it from western media or some of the Putin Propaganda posted on this forum), for balanced search results with an English output you could use AI with an IP address based in Singapore or Nigeria.
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holdover
.475 A&M Magnum
BBC used to be excellent . but they're just a globalist mouth piece now
They are worse than the ny times and/or washington post in this country. Completely woke and narrative driven.
Steal2B
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NATO scrambles fighter jets as Russia launches horror attack and kills 14
Civilians always pay the price
www.express.co.uk
Russian strikes on Ukraine’s capital kill at least 22 ahead of NATO summit
The large-scale Russian attack using ballistic missiles highlights Ukraine’s shortage of Patriot interceptor missiles ahead of a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.
www.nbcnews.com
‘A concession to Zelenskyy’s ultimatum’: Ukraine’s triumph over Belarus
President Zelenskyy demands Lukashenko shut down stations installed by Russia 'or we will'.
holdover
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Ukraine has mounted another large drone attack against Russia overnight, launching hundreds of drones and once again targeting oil infrastructure and military sites near St. Petersburg.
Videos online appear to show large smoke plumes rising from an oil facility in St. Petersburg’s port. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine had successfully hit oil infrastructure in the port as well as military targets around the Kronstadt naval base.
Russia's defense ministry said some 400 drones were involved in the attack.
ByPatrick Reevell
July 4, 2026, 1:28 PM
abcnews.com
Ukraine said on Tuesday it hit one of Russia’s largest satellite communication centers for the second time in just over a week, as Kyiv ramps up long-range drone attacks to pressure the Kremlin to end its four-year-old war.
The Dubna Satellite Communications Centre to the north of Moscow, some 500 km (310 miles) from the Ukrainian border, is used for intelligence gathering and the coordination of Russia’s armed forces fighting in Ukraine, President Volodymr Zelensky said.
Russia hasn’t confirmed the Dubna communication center was struck, but the governor of the Moscow region Andrey Vorobyov said a drone had hit an “administrative building” in the town with no reported casualties.
Its a war ,your gonna have that kind of thing , nobody is clean
Videos online appear to show large smoke plumes rising from an oil facility in St. Petersburg’s port. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine had successfully hit oil infrastructure in the port as well as military targets around the Kronstadt naval base.
Russia's defense ministry said some 400 drones were involved in the attack.
ByPatrick Reevell
July 4, 2026, 1:28 PM
Ukraine launches major drone attack again on Russia
Ukraine launched a major drone attack on Russia with some 400 drones involved, according to the Russian defense ministry.
abcnews.com
Ukraine said on Tuesday it hit one of Russia’s largest satellite communication centers for the second time in just over a week, as Kyiv ramps up long-range drone attacks to pressure the Kremlin to end its four-year-old war.
The Dubna Satellite Communications Centre to the north of Moscow, some 500 km (310 miles) from the Ukrainian border, is used for intelligence gathering and the coordination of Russia’s armed forces fighting in Ukraine, President Volodymr Zelensky said.
Russia hasn’t confirmed the Dubna communication center was struck, but the governor of the Moscow region Andrey Vorobyov said a drone had hit an “administrative building” in the town with no reported casualties.
Its a war ,your gonna have that kind of thing , nobody is clean