Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Ukrainian defence ministry adviser names Ukraine's main technological problems in war
By Iryna Levytska | 29 June, 11:02
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/06/29/8041560/
Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov, an adviser to Ukraine's defence minister, said that alongside positive news from the war, Ukraine faces a number of technological problems and named the main ones.
Source: Flash on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=27283162834658742&id
=100001751811701&mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=EygELGMVL6XcUXFm#
Quote:Details: Among the key problems, Flash identified the absence of a serial and mass-production solution for countering guided aerial bombs.
I will try to name the main ones:
1. We do not have a serial and mass solution against KABs. It is KABs that cause us many problems on the fronts.
2. The enemy is increasing the use of MES modems for reconnaissance and online strikes with Shahed and Gerber. We are making unacceptably slow progress in developing electronic warfare means against MES.
3. There is a huge problem with drone attacks on front-line areas. And not only villages are suffering, but also Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Sumy. Warning systems and systematic actions are needed to combat drones.
4. I would like to have even more tactical radars so that the precise radar field is denser and larger. Without this, interceptors do not work.
5. We do not yet have our own ballistics. And it would radically change the course of the war.
6. There are no mass and mass solutions for electronic warfare on drone video channels. The enemy is ahead of us here both in development and in experience of application. It is such electronic warfare that would help us protect front-line zones from drones.
7. There are no proven solutions for protecting mid-range strikes and bombers from enemy anti-aircraft drones. If we do not create them, it will soon become very difficult to work.
8. There is no systematic technological approach to finding and destroying enemy tactical radars. And these are the enemy's front-line eyes in the sky.
9. Developments and solutions are needed in the field of alternative navigation for deep strikes.
This is what I can voice publicly.
"It is precisely the guided aerial bombs that are causing us many problems on the fronts," he noted.
He also said that Russian forces are increasing their use of Mesh modems for reconnaissance and strikes with Shahed and Gerber-type drones, while Ukraine is, in his opinion, unacceptably slow in developing electronic warfare countermeasures against this technology.
Flash also drew attention to the large-scale problem of drone attacks on frontline territories.
"It is not only villages that are suffering, but also Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Sumy. Alert systems and systematic action against drones are needed," Flash added.
He separately stressed the need to increase the number of tactical radar stations, since without a denser radar coverage, interceptor drones cannot operate effectively.
He also noted that Ukraine does not yet have its own ballistic missile, which in his view could radically change the course of the war.
Among other problems, the expert identified the absence of mass and serial electronic warfare systems against drone video channels, in the development and use of which, in his assessment, the Russians are ahead of Ukraine.
"Precisely this kind of electronic warfare would help us protect frontline zones from drones," Flash stressed.
He also said there is an absence of proven solutions for protecting medium-range and heavy strike UAVs from anti-drone interceptors.
"If we do not create them, working conditions will become very difficult very soon," Beskrestnov said.
Flash is convinced Ukraine also lacks a systematic technological approach to locating and destroying the Russians' tactical radar stations, which he called "the enemy's eyes in the sky at the front
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With America in Retreat, Europe Now Depends on Ukraine
Europeans are gaming out their future defense, and it’s unthinkable without Kyiv.
June 29, 2026, 10:11 AM
By Liana Fix, a senior Europe fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Paul B. Stares, a senior fellow for conflict prevention at the Council on Foreign Relations.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/29/europe-nato-war-russia-ukraine-se
curity-defense-trump-alliance-deterrence/
Europe is preparing for its future security with little or no help from the United States. And in many such scenarios that European planners are now gaming out, Ukraine emerges as the linchpin of the continent’s defense. The weaker Washington’s security guarantee becomes, the more Europe needs Kyiv. Soon, Europeans will have to confront an entirely new burden-sharing question: What must they offer Ukraine for its help shielding Europe from Russia?
Until recently, European leaders could barely disguise their dread at the prospect of another acrimonious NATO summit, set to take place in Ankara in early July. The wounds are still raw from recent trans-Atlantic fights—including over U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, his attempts to coerce Denmark to hand over Greenland, and recent U.S. troops withdrawals from Europe. Trump’s war against Iran and his accusations that European allies were insufficiently supportive of their principal security guarantor added to these wounds. This month, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ominously warned: “I think the next meeting of NATO … is probably the most important meeting in NATO’s history because there are some things here that need to be cleared up and fixed.”
Concerns about a fracas at next month’s summit have subsided somewhat. The apparent U.S.-Iran cease-fire deal, the announced reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and Europe’s offer to help police the strait once a final peace agreement is reached have lowered the temperature. The friendly tone of this month’s G-7 summit in France, where Trump seemed on his best behavior, was another welcome sign. Cue the longtime trans-Atlanticists, who will surely argue that this proves the enduring resilience of the U.S.-Europe partnership—and that another near-death experience for NATO has been averted.
Such thinking, however, misses how rapidly European views of the trans-Atlantic alliance are changing. To the continent’s policymakers, NATO resembles Schrödinger’s fabled cat—simultaneously alive and dead. They treat the alliance as alive in the sense that they still do and say all the things they did before to demonstrate that they believe in its existence, not least to deter Moscow. But they also view it as dead in the sense that they can no longer rely on Washington as before.
European leaders are making plans to secure their continent without U.S. help. They no longer take seriously the assurance from Matthew Whitaker, the U.S. permanent representative to NATO, that a U.S. drawdown will leave no “strategic gaps.” They have given up on the idea that the Trump administration will agree to a road map for handing off Europe’s conventional defense in a predictable, coordinated way. So they are improvising. At the European Union level, officials are war-gaming how Article 42.7—the bloc’s closest equivalent to NATO’s Article 5 mutual defense clause—might be invoked if NATO is paralyzed. Leaders are asking what happens if NATO’s command-and-control structure simply isn’t there. Paris and Berlin have set up a nuclear steering group to discuss the possible role of the French nuclear arsenal in Europewide deterrence.
What stands out across many of these planning exercises is Ukraine’s role at the center of European security. Bolstering Europe’s own defense and deterrence as Washington’s commitment wanes will take many years. In a scenario exercise that the Council on Foreign Relations recently held with European officials and experts (which we both designed and in which one of us participated), it became readily apparent that Ukraine is the bulwark for Europe’s defense at a ti
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The Great Debate Is Between The Wrong Choices
This Is The Debate We Should Be Having
Phillips P. OBrien
Jun 30, 2026
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-great-debate-is-between-the
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Sometimes debates rumble on not because of their strong intellectual merits, but because of history, bureaucratic inertia, or simply innate conservatism (not an atypical phenomenon in militaries, it must be said). One of my favorite historical examples of such a debate was the obstinate refusal of some officers in both US and British cavalry units during the interwar period to give up their horses for combat roles. They came up with a host of what seemed to be semi-plausible arguments to justify their emotional and bureaucratic preferences.
Well, It Seemed A Rational Debate For The Time
Some claimed that vehicles would never be able to handle the varied terrain that horses could master, and therefore it was imperative to keep the man in the saddle. Other arguments were that vehicle technology still had a long way to go to mature, and in the meantime, it would be a shame to give up on horses who were tried and true. One of the favorite arguments of the horse backers was to claim that these new-fangled mechanized technologies were simply not mature enough yet, and in the meantime, it was important to prevent some “sheep-like rush to mechanization.”
These arguments effectively delayed the transition of some cavalry units to mechanized status for decades—until after World War II started in some cases.
And then, lo and behold, the horse appeared in combat next to the tank, and the whole debate was revealed as the farce that it was.
It is also worth noting that in the end, it was the most obstinate defenders of the old order that lost out. Many of those fine cavalry officers who clung to their horses in the 1920s and 1930s ended up being useless at the start of the war and had to beg and borrow their way into mechanized units to see the action that they so desperately craved.
The current debate over whether the future (present actually) belongs to human-controlled or remotely/artificially controlled combat vehicles on land, air and sea is much like the debate between cavalry and mechanization in the interwar period. It is ongoing, intense, and its result will make a big difference in the shape of future militaries for years, if not decades.
But it is also partly ridiculous.
Now let me declare an interest. I have, for many years, since before the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, argued that large, expensive, manned weapons were on their way out. They seemed to me far too difficult to defend, actually limited in their capabilities, and wildly expensive. In other words, we were spending massive amounts of money to make systems less effective.
In the Spring of 2022, I imagined an impending future where smaller, cheaper defensive weapons would have the “computational performance” to push all these legacy systems towards obsolescence. Here was a quote from one piece which discussed this (I clearly did not anticipate at that point that everyone would soon opt to call these AI/Autonomous systems, but the point was the same).
Drones will be able to stay in the air for longer and avoid detection better, while increasing their lethality and improving their own computational performance. The ability of both to destroy heavy land vehicles while remaining unseen will improve. The massacre of Russian vehicles we have seen in Ukraine will become the norm, not the exception.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 29, 2026
https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive
-campaign-assessment-june-29-2026/
Russian President Vladimir Putin is carefully constructing a reality that seeks to portray a Russian victory in Ukraine as inevitable while downplaying the growing domestic economic costs of the war. This constructed reality is premised on a rejection of the tactical and operational developments that have characterized 2026 thus far and a continued Russian commitment to its untenable maximalist battlefield objectives. Putin’s control over the information space and his ability to shape and propagate narratives of Russian military success are critical to maintaining this false reality.
Putin appears to have accepted the reality that the August 2025 US-Russian Alaska Summit did not result in tangible or actionable diplomatic agreements. Putin stated to Kremlin journalist Pavel Zarubin in a likely carefully staged interview on June 28 that Russia and the United States did not reach any agreements at the Alaska Summit.[1] Putin acknowledged that there were no signed documents outlining the “spirit of Anchorage” but claimed that Russia agreed during the summit to US proposals about ending the war in Ukraine. Putin stated that Russia is ready to continue negotiations with the United States based on the Alaska Summit. The Kremlin readout of Putin’s interview omitted his statements about the Alaska Summit, but Zarubin posted a video of the full interview that retained those details.[2] Putin’s June 28 statement follows a similar remark from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on June 25 that there was only a “proposal” at the summit but no official or signed written agreement.[3] Putin is likely acknowledging lack of agreements in order to avoid directly confronting the Trump administration about what happened in Anchorage, given Rubio’s statements confirming the absence of a written agreement. Putin’s stated readiness to return to the Alaska Summit proposals, however, aims to push the United States to resume negotiations as if the battlefield situation has not changed since August 2025. Ukraine has since liberated territory on the frontline and significantly slowed Russian advances, while engaging in successful intermediate- and long-range strike campaigns against Russia — forcing Russia into a much more defensive mode of operation than it was in as of August 2025.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Wheels Are Coming Off Putin’s War
Fuel shortages, military unrest, and a strangled Crimea while the Kremlin dictator’s attempts to project confidence do nothing of the sort.
Cathy Young
Jun 30, 2026
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-wheels-are-coming-off-putin-ukrain-wa
r-crimea
A FEW YEARS AGO, when there was still some leeway for acts of public dissent in Russia, some protesters against the Kremlin’s imperialist policy toward Ukraine carried signs that flipped the patriotic slogan Krym nash, “Crimea is ours,” into Nam krysh—a humorous abbreviation of the slang phrase meaning “We’re done for.” [The literal meaning of the full phrase nam krysha is, “It’s the roof for us.”] Today, nam krysh seems prophetic: The occupied peninsula that became the (stolen) jewel in Putin’s crown in 2014 finds itself under a Ukrainian blockade that has all but cut it off from the Russian mainland—and, since Friday, under a state of emergency.
Starting in May, the vaunted “land bridge” by which Russia supplied occupied Crimea, the Novorossiya highway, turned into a death trap for trucks due to unrelenting Ukrainian drone attacks. Since then, other strikes have targeted bridges and taken out ferry operations. Severe fuel shortages are the blockade’s tangible result. Sergey Aksyonov, the Kremlin-installed governor of Crimea, recently announced a complete halt to gas sales to individual car owners; fuel is reserved for public transit and official vehicles. Power outages have become widespread; the latest reports show that food shortages are already starting. The Crimea vacation long coveted by Russians has become a nightmare. Recent data from travel websites show that nearly 80 percent of hotel bookings on the peninsula have been canceled. While a few brave or stupid souls are still heading to Crimea, far more people are getting out. Thousands of cars have been lining up at the Crimean Bridge (a.k.a. the Kerch Strait Bridge, famously attacked multiple times by Ukraine) in the direction of the mainland, with hardly any traffic the other way.
The Ukrainian effort to turn the Crimean peninsula into “an island,” in the words of Ukrainian defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov, has marked a new chapter in the war, in both symbolic and practical ways. Russia’s Krym nash moment—the annexation of Crimea in March 2014, immediately followed by the Russian incursion into the Donbas—was the beginning of Putin’s proposed reconquista of Ukraine. Moreover, the Crimea grab was almost universally seen as de facto irreversible even by those who were optimistic about the prospect for Ukraine to recapture its other occupied lands. Today, while no one believes Ukraine could recapture the peninsula soon, the occupation powers are beleaguered.
In his televised address last Wednesday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said that the actions taken to isolate Crimea were part of a “carefully calculated operation” intended, with help from Ukraine’s Western allies, to “force Russia to choose peace.” Some Russian propagandists saw this statement as a signal that Ukraine was preparing an actual military operation to recapture Crimea. That seems doubtful: Such an operation would be extremely costly at a time when Ukraine still faces significant manpower shortages on the frontlines. One possibility, however, is that if supply lines are cut off, the Russian military contingent on the peninsula may be forced to evacuate—opening the way to an unresisted Ukrainian capture that would, in effect, be a reversal of Russia’s bloodless seizure of Crimea in 2014. (As the saying goes, history does not repeat itself but it often rhymes.)
What’s not in doubt is that Ukraine has succeeded in turning Crimea from Russia’s prize into a liability. And it’s part of a larger Ukrainian strategy: The next day, on Thursday, Zelensky announced that he had approved a forty-day “operation of influence” against Russia, coordinated with Ukrainian intelligence and intended to force Moscow to end the war.
A creeping sense of nam krysh is spreading far beyond Crimea. The recent U
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tick tock comrade.
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Ukraine Starts Cracking Open the Occupied Territories
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Russian threat will outlast Putin, Sweden's military intelligence chief says
By Polina Moroziuk | June 30, 2026 6:15 pm
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-threat-will-outlast-putin-swedens-
intelligence-chief-says/
Russia is likely to remain a security threat long after President Vladimir Putin leaves office, Sweden's military intelligence chief said on June 30, describing Moscow's confrontation with the West as "deep, structural and enduring."
Thomas Nilsson, head of Sweden's Military Intelligence and Security Service (MUST), made the remarks in an interview with Bloomberg published on June 30.
"We don't see this crisis as a temporary one; Russia has chosen its path, and there is no way back," Nilsson said.
Nilsson also said Sweden saw no signs that Russia's political system or Vladimir Putin's grip on power were under immediate threat, despite economic strains caused by the war and Western sanctions.
"Political opposition has effectively been eliminated – through exile, imprisonment, or, in the worst cases, assassination," Nilsson said, adding that there was no political force capable of channeling public dissatisfaction into an alternative to the current regime.
The intelligence chief also said Russia was planning to expand its military presence along NATO's northeastern flank, stretching "from northern Finland all the way down." While many of those plans remain on paper as Moscow prioritizes its war against Ukraine, Sweden expects Russia to pursue them once it regains sufficient resources and military capacity.
Sweden joined NATO in March 2024 after abandoning decades of military non-alignment in response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Alongside neighboring Finland, Sweden has significantly strengthened the alliance's presence in the Baltic region.
Nilsson's comments came after Nordic media recently reported, based on satellite imagery, that Russia was expanding military infrastructure near the Finnish border. Moscow has previously said such deployments were a response to Finland's and Sweden's accession to NATO.
Russia has repeatedly criticized both countries' decision to join the alliance.
Sweden has remained one of Ukraine's key European partners since Russia's full-scale invasion. On June 18, Stockholm announced an additional $108 million in military aid through the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative alongside additional assistance pledged by Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Russia Shifts Donetsk Capture Deadlines – Now at 15 Attempts
By Kyiv Post | June 30, 2026, 12:20 am
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/79230
… in 2022, the deadlines were March 31, then May 9, June 1, Sept. 15, and Dec. 31.
In 2023, Putin set two more deadlines for the capture of Donbas – March 1 and then Dec. 31.
“In 2024, there were again two such deadlines,” Zelensky said, adding that in 2025, Russia tried to convince US President Donald Trump that Ukraine would “supposedly fall,” giving three final dates for capturing the region – Sept. 1, Dec. 1, and Dec. 25.
“Already this year, the Russians have again pushed back the date,” he said. At first, they set the deadline of March 31, then Sept. 1, “and now the deadline is Dec. 31.”
In May, Zelensky confirmed Russia has lost 145,000 troops since the start of 2026, including nearly 86,000 killed.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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