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Author: Michael
Western news media outlets are awash with enthusiasm for Ukraine’s successes in the most recent phase of its ongoing drone and missile wars against Russia. Photos and videos of a blazing Russian oil refinery on the outskirts of Moscow were especially prominent in late June 2026. However, nearly every Ukrainian drone or missile attack that inflicts damage on a Russian target receives maximum coverage in Europe and the United States.
Ukraine will loom large over the July 7-8, 2026, NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey. The war in Ukraine is now well into its fifth year. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s gamble has cratered Russian conventional power. The frontline is a meat grinder. Russia loses in just one month what it lost over nearly a decade in Afghanistan. Putin dismissed the notion that Ukrainian culture and identity were anything more than contrived; he could not envision that Ukrainians would rally around the flag and lay down their lives for a false ideal. Arrogance predominated.
Russia Unleashes One of the Largest Air Assaults of the Ukraine War: As one conflict simmers down, the Iran War, another–the Ukraine War–is boiling over. After a series of Ukrainian drone attacks on critical Russian energy infrastructure, causing massive disruptions to the civilian economy inside Russia, Moscow retaliated with a thunderous cacophony of violence. Russia’s recent airstrikes on Kyiv resulted in tragedy: nearly 27 people died, and countless other Ukrainians were injured.
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In yet another devastating attack by Ukrainian drones on Russian-occupied territories, Kyiv knocked out power to 13 different power stations in Crimea, Luhansk, and the Donetsk regions during a 48-hour period.
The strikes severely impacted the energy grid in those occupied territories as the Ukrainian military continues its campaign targeting the energy architecture supporting the Russian military.
Su-57 Felon Fighter from Russia. Creative Commons Image.
The Next Shock After Oil: How the Iran War is Reshaping the Global Food Supply – Let’s file this next one under “More Tales from the Golden Age.” A spate of recent reports tracking the economic implications of the Iran War highlights just how bad the global economic situation is becoming.
By the way, the Strait of Hormuz has not been fully reopened. And as we’ve been warning you in this publication, the longer the Strait remains blocked, the worse the global economic fallout from the war will be.
The People’s Liberation Army Navy, or PLAN for short, recently notched what was for it a long carrier deployment, with the Liaoning completing 40 days at sea, during which it conducted a number of training exercises.
Though notable for the PLAN, it pales in comparison to the Gerald R. Ford, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, and that ship’s post-Cold War record of nearly 300 days at sea.
The Liaoning’s Origin Story
China New Carrier Type 003 CCTV Screencap Photo.
Although the Liaoning is China’s first aircraft carrier, it was not built in China.
The ongoing war in Ukraine is approaching its fifth year, a remarkable marker for what Russia’s leader initially anticipated to be a very short “special military operation” that would quickly decapitate Ukraine’s leadership and see the country absorbed into Russia. With Russia newly on the back foot, thanks to Ukrainian ingenuity and the Kremlin’s ability to finance the war, much has changed on the battlefield. But some things, particularly Putin’s objectives, have remained the same.
BAE Systems has completed delivery of 19 Cold Weather All-Terrain Vehicles to the US military, bringing the total number handed over to 58.