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Lessons I learned in a Ukrainian military safe house

Mar 10, 2024 | counteroffensive.news | Ross Pelekh

Editor’s note: This Thursday, March 14th, The Counteroffensive is teaming up with the Kyiv Independent to hold an event on how to break through Ukraine fatigue. Join us this Thursday! Write to [email protected] to RSVP and for details!Whenever I go to the Donbas, near the frontlines, I make a point to stop in with my friends on a Ukrainian reconnaissance team, some of whom I knew before the invasion. They have a safe house where they rest and regroup in between missions.
Lessons I learned in a Ukrainian military safe house

Mar 10, 2024 | open.substack.com | Ross Pelekh

Editor’s note: This Thursday, March 14th, The Counteroffensive is teaming up with the Kyiv Independent to hold an event on how to break through Ukraine fatigue. Join us this Thursday! Write to [email protected] to RSVP and for details!Whenever I go to the Donbas, near the frontlines, I make a point to stop in with my friends on a Ukrainian reconnaissance team, some of whom I knew before the invasion. They have a safe house where they rest and regroup in between missions.
NEWSFLASH: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dead in government custody

Feb 16, 2024 | counteroffensive.news | Ross Pelekh

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A Ukrainian saboteur group’s desperate last stand

Jan 28, 2024 | counteroffensive.news | Ross Pelekh

Editor’s note: These are dark, cold days in Ukraine. We are persevering despite a substantial decrease in the number of paid subscribers over the past week. 93% of our readers don’t pay for our work. Will you help improve those numbers by supporting us? Right after Christmas 2022, Russian intelligence services posted a video showing the scene of a terrible battle. On the ground were the blurred-out bodies of Ukrainian saboteurs, who had made their way behind enemy lines.
A Ukrainian Grinch gives his Christmas message

Dec 21, 2023 | counteroffensive.news | Ross Pelekh

Editor’s Note: We’re reaching the end of a tough year, filled with reporting from all over Ukraine. We need your help to continue. Support us if you like our brand of human-centered journalism, illustrating big issues in the news by focusing on personal stories first!Here’s Ross, to start us off: I hate the Christmas music playing in the shops this year. It drives me mad. It feels surreal that there can be these festive sounds. They don’t match the reality of the world around us.
What happens when the best among us are dead?

Dec 5, 2023 | counteroffensive.news | Ross Pelekh

Editor’s note: The war has now gone on more than 600 days. UAWeapons, which examines open source evidence, is closing down soon. Another Ukraine analyst announced they would be ending their daily analysis on the conflict. We will continue to cover the war. But we need your help to do so.
A dangerous new phase of the Ukraine war

Nov 5, 2023 | counteroffensive.substack.com | Myroslava Tanska-Vikulova |Ross Pelekh |Tim Mak

Other news organizations are withdrawing from Ukraine to focus elsewhere. Less than ten percent of our readers pay for our work, which we are proud to make free to the public. Things are looking bleak in Ukraine. If you support high-quality, human-first, on-the-ground journalism here, will you upgrade to a paid subscription? We are breaking our usual format this issue because it feels like we hit a troubling milestone in the war this week.
What happens when the best among us are dead?

Oct 19, 2023 | counteroffensive.substack.com | Ross Pelekh

Editor’s note: The war has now gone on more than 600 days. UAWeapons, which examines open source evidence, is closing down soon. Another Ukraine analyst announced they would be ending their daily analysis on the conflict. We will continue to cover the war. But we need your help to do so. If you haven’t upgraded to a paid subscription, will you do so today? There’s a fear that’s been growing in me lately: what if all the best among us die in this war?
The Cynical Calculations of a Wagner Mercenary

Jun 25, 2023 | dailykos.com | Joseph Roche |Christopher Allbritton |William Glover Weiss |Ross Pelekh

By Joseph Roche, Christopher Allbritton, William Glover Weiss, Ross Pelekh and Tim MakEditor’s note by Tim: I’m taking a brief break from reporting after a seven-week sprint launching The Counteroffensive! Experienced war correspondent Chris Allbritton will be taking the reins, and I will edit (more on Chris down below). Thank you so much for supporting us so far — if you haven’t upgraded to paid, what are you waiting for?