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‘I Don’t Owe Russia Anything’: The Young Russian Conscripts Captured by Ukraine

Aug 26, 2024 | themoscowtimes.com | Joshua Kroeker

SUMY REGION, Ukraine — In a 20-square-meter room in an undisclosed prison in northeastern Ukraine, eight young Russian conscripts sit on their beds, staring at their feet. Just weeks ago, they had been serving their mandatory year of military service in Russia’s Kursk region, which borders Ukraine. When Kyiv launched its cross-border incursion on Aug. 6, hundreds of these conscripts, outgunned and undermanned, quickly surrendered and were taken across the border as prisoners of war.
The Fighting in Kursk Is Already a Small Victory for Ukraine

Aug 15, 2024 | themoscowtimes.com | Joshua Kroeker

From the very beginning of Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region on Aug. 6, analysts and Russia watchers have been overly cynical about the operation’s potential success. Yet roughly two weeks into the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attack on Russia proper, the time has come to appreciate that Ukraine has achieved several strategic and tactical victories. Over the last two months, Ukraine has faced an extremely difficult situation along the frontlines in both Donbas and the Kharkiv region.
‘Unthinkable’: Desperate Rescue Efforts in Kyiv After Russian Missile Strikes Children’s Hospital

Jul 8, 2024 | themoscowtimes.com | Joshua Kroeker

KYIV, Ukraine — “It’s not safe, it’s not safe. We need to go now,” a woman yelled at people running to shelter on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in the heart of the Ukrainian capital as the sounds of air defenses thundered overhead. As the first sirens blared throughout Kyiv at 9:52 a.m., many residents moved to shelters, metro stations and basements. Others carried on with their routines, weary of the concrete basements and noisy underground halls — and disruptions to their daily lives.
In a Liberated Ukrainian Village, a Long, Dangerous Path to Reconstruction Remains

Feb 24, 2024 | themoscowtimes.com | Joshua Kroeker

KAMYANKA, Ukraine — Two weeks after Ukraine liberated this village in the Kharkiv region in September 2022, Viktor, a local farmer and tractor driver, and his wife Larissa returned to their home for the first time since the Russian occupation. Half a year earlier, the couple had managed to escape the advancing Russian army. For the next six months, their village lay on the frontlines of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
In Brief: The Dismissal of Valeriy Zaluzhny

Feb 14, 2024 | warontherocks.com | Eric Ciaramella |Maria Popova |Joshua Kroeker |Oxana Shevel

A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it. *** After weeks of rumors, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky finally dismissed Valeriy Zaluzhny as the commander of Ukraine’s armed forces on February 8, 2024.
Transparency for Victory: How Openness Can Improve Ukraine’s Public Relations

Jan 31, 2024 | warontherocks.com | Joshua Kroeker

During my November 2023 visit to the front lines in eastern Ukraine, a commander from the 120th Territorial Defense Battalion described the country’s military as “swimming” between an outdated, secretive, and backward Soviet-era force and a modern NATO one.
Rising Ethnic Tensions Won’t Tear Russia Apart

Sep 29, 2023 | themoscowtimes.com | Joshua Kroeker

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many observers in the West have predicted that the so-called “nationality question” will catalyze the disintegration of the Russian state. In fact, this theory has become so popular over the past year that any trace of tensions between ethnic Russians and one of the over 180 different nationalities that comprise the Russian Federation is instantly catapulted into the headlines as evidence of the country’s supposedly inevitable collapse.
Wojna tuż pod nosem Rosjan. Ataki dronów na Moskwę to część planu Kijowa

Aug 30, 2023 | wiadomosci.onet.pl | Joshua Kroeker

Stolica Rosji, położona około 450 km od granicy z Ukrainą, była celem ataków dronów niemal każdej nocy w ciągu ostatnich kilku tygodni. Wiele budynków uległo zniszczeniu, lotniska były tymczasowo zamykane. Ataki na Moskwę — niegdyś nie do pomyślenia — stały się teraz rutynową częścią wojny.
Drone Attacks on Moscow Pressure Russia Far From the Frontlines

Aug 29, 2023 | themoscowtimes.com | Joshua Kroeker

Repeated drone attacks on Moscow and its surrounding areas reflect a shift in Ukraine’s war strategy to chip away at Russia away from the frontlines, experts have told The Moscow Times. Russia’s capital, located some 450 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, has been targeted by drones nearly every night for the past several weeks, damaging buildings and forcing airports to temporarily close. The once-unthinkable attacks on Moscow have now become a routine part of the war for many.
Moscow Has Shown It Will Not Cross Its Own Red Lines in the War

Aug 23, 2023 | themoscowtimes.com | Joshua Kroeker

Half a year into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the world was caught off-guard by President Vladimir Putin’s vow to use “all means” necessary to protect the territorial integrity of Russia – including the four newly illegally annexed Ukrainian regions and Crimea. These were, after all, the first explicit threats to use nuclear weapons from a major power since the end of the Cold War.