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The Fight to Survive Russia's Onslaught in Eastern Ukraine
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Russia’s war in Ukraine is not the same conflict that it was earlier this spring. The Russian Army’s initial campaign, in February and March, was a three-front invasion with l...
By Michael Kofman
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U.S. Aims to Cripple Russian Oil Industry, Officials Say
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Russian oil exports increased in April, and rising prices mean that Russia has earned 50 percent more in revenues this year compared to the same period in 2021, according to a...
By Maria Snegovaya & Edward Fishman
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Nasty, Repressive, Aggressive -- Yes. But Is Russia Fascist? Experts Say 'No.'
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Among the characteristics Putin's Russia manifests that mirror fascism are historical revanchism and the embrace of hypermasculine authority -- "the macho cult of Putin" -- sa...
By Maria Snegovaya
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The Russian military's heavy losses from Ukraine in charts
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For Jeffrey Edmonds, a former US Army tanker and CIA military analyst, the US intelligence estimate of 7,000 losses seems too high. But he said even more conservative guesses ...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Reported Detention of Russian Spy Boss Shows Tension Over Stalled Ukraine Invasion, U.S. Officials Say
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“It is hard to imagine some senior intelligence person talking with Putin and not telling Putin what he wants to hear, especially if it is a belief that is deeply held, like P...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jeffrey Edmonds
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Oil, weapons and realpolitik: Why some countries want to stay on friendly terms with Russia
Russia supplies about 60 percent of the weapons and equipment for India’s military, the cornerstone of a decades-long friendly relationship between Moscow and Delhi. Experts s...
By Lisa Curtis
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For the U.S., a Tenuous Balance in Confronting Russia
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Some American officials assert that as a matter of international law, the provision of weaponry and intelligence to the Ukrainian Army has made the United States a cobelligere...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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The socialite daughter of Putin's spokesman complains US sanctions are 'unfair' but thinks they won't make a difference
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Maria Snegovaya, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said the main goal of US sanctions at this point is not so much to bring about that elite ...
By Maria Snegovaya
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Drones flying into NATO territory have forced the alliance to decide how to respond — if at all — to incidents inside its borders
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Jeff Edmonds, a senior analyst at the Center for a New American Security and former director for Russia on the National Security Council, said the risk to NATO territory will ...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Ukraine will not halt US shift to Indo-Pacific
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The war in Ukraine poses a more immediate threat, however, and some experts now insist that the West must adjust its thinking accordingly. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenb...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Ukraine war: Biden will tell Xi any support of Russia comes with ‘costs’, top US diplomat says
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US President Joe Biden plans to tell his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that he will “impose costs” for any support Beijing provides to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Washingto...
By Jacob Stokes
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Democrats worry Zelensky offered GOP key talking point
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Others in the GOP say it’s unlikely that Republicans delve into that territory. “One never ceases to be amazed at the imagination of attack ads, but I doubt Zelensky’s clario...
By Richard Fontaine
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The humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ukraine’s cities
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Such shortages, as the war enters its third week, reflect a burgeoning humanitarian crisis — one that could grow far worse for Ukrainians who now have little prospect of escap...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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U.S. Casts a Global Net to Stop Shipments to Russia
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Emily Kilcrease, director of the Energy, Economics and Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, said that the level of allied cooperation in forging the exp...
By Emily Kilcrease
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CEOs seek their own State Departments
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The current secretary of State, Antony Blinken, co-founded WestExec Advisors, where the current director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, and current White House press ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Putin thought Russia’s military could capture Kyiv in 2 days, but it still hasn’t in 20
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Maria Snegovaya, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, told Insider that Putin was “clearly lacking good information on the ground.” But bad intelligence ...
By Maria Snegovaya
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How Kyiv’s Outgunned Defenders Have Kept Russian Forces from Capturing the Capital
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“Ukraine’s main game is a game for time,” said Michael Kofman, director of Russian studies at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) in Arlington, Va. “To try to do something els...
By Michael Kofman
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The dangerous new phase of Russia’s war in Ukraine, explained
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In 2014, Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine that culminated in the occupation of the Crimea peninsula in the south. Later that year, Russia deployed hybrid tactics, such a...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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The U.S. can’t stop Poland from giving Ukraine its MiGs
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The fact that small Russian units have been so regularly ambushed in the early days of the war indicates they weren’t using small drones for surveillance and reconnaissance, i...
By Samuel Bendett
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Pentagon says some Russian jets are avoiding Ukraine's airspace during sorties to avoid being shot down
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The skirting of Ukrainian air space suggests Russia warplanes are aware of these still considerable dangers. In an interview on Wednesday, an expert on the Russian military sa...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
