Reports from multiple pro-Ukraine sources indicate that the Russian offensive remains stalled on all fronts. The Ukrainian Defence Ministry released a press briefing at around midnight local time on the end of day nineteen (14th March) discussing the progress on all fronts. Russian forces are regrouping in most areas, in preparation for future operations. This…

After two and a half weeks, the Russians are yet to make any significant progress into Ukraine despite large attrition of vehicles and significant superiority in air power.  Ukrainskiya Pravda has alleged the use of white phosphorus munitions by Russian forces in Popasna, Luhansk. This claim is as yet unverified. White phosphorus is commonly used…

While fighting and shelling rages across all fronts, there is no evidence of significant gains by either side on day seventeen. Russia has announced that it will treat western arms shipments to Ukraine as ‘legitimate military targets’. This likely does not mean they will attempt to interdict transport planes over Poland; the weapons are arriving…

On day sixteen, the Russian advance appears to have gained little ground; the capture of Volnovakha is perhaps the most significant milestone. Fighting continues around major cities, with Ukrainian combat teams launching limited counter-attacks and ambuscades while Russian MLRS systems and artillery bombard the outskirts of defended urban areas. Russian movements in most sectors appear…

Fighting continues on the outskirts of Kiev, Mariupol, Kharkiv, Sumy, and other important conflict zones. Telecoms As the Russians occupy more telecoms and power infrastructure, and cyberattacks continue against Ukrainian mobile network providers, the prevalence and reliability of smartphone footage may diminish in the east of the country. A major cyberattack took out the network…

2300, March 9th The UK confirmed today that a small number of soldiers have gone AWOL from the British Army in order to fight in Ukraine. Thousands of foreign volunteers have allegedly arrived in western Ukraine since the conflict began, a testimony to both the widespread support of Ukraine and the effectiveness of Western media…

With something of a lull in the fighting as humanitarian corridors are again attempted (and failed), day thirteen sees widespread economic ramifications from the Ukraine conflict. The UK, USA, and EU have made an agreement to ban Russian energy imports, while releasing a portion of their strategic oil reserves. Prices of fossil fuels and metals…

Russian losses continue to mount on day twelve, as concrete evidence of a successful advance on any front remains elusive. According to an amateur website that compiles photographic and video evidence of lost vehicles to monitor the conflict, Russia has lost 868 vehicles and weapons systems thus far in the conflict,  while Ukraine has lost…

Fighting and bombardment has continued across the country on day eleven. There do not appear to be any substantive changes in occupied territories or combat fronts, but this should not be taken to mean that nothing is happening. Havryshivka Vinnytsia International Airport, 100 miles southwest of Kiev, is allegedly ‘completely destroyed’ by eight Russian missiles,…