Kremlin Insiders Say Putin Is Digging In His Heels: Sources close to the Kremlin have told Reuters that Russian President Vladimir Putin is pushing back against calls to negotiate peace with Kyiv and plans to continue escalating. According to the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the extreme pressure caused by Ukraine’s long-range drone and missile strikes on Russian oil refineries and energy infrastructure is emboldening the Russian leader to take extreme new measures.
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Army Secretary Dan Driscoll issued a new directive that will shut down many unit-level social media accounts across the force.
The subject line of a memorandum from Driscoll, dated June 30 and publicly released July 8, said the move is aimed at “Optimizing Digital Media.”
The policy “consolidates thousands of localized unit pages into a focused network of authorized accounts to ensure a clear, unified voice, reduce operational risk, and improve information access for Soldiers, Families and the public,” officials wrote in a press release published Wednesday.
Russia’s Battlefield Losses Are Blamed on “War With NATO”: The Kremlin frequently promotes the narrative that it is fighting a direct war against the “collective West” to explain its ongoing military debacle in Ukraine.
By framing the conflict as a struggle against a combined 32-nation NATO alliance, Moscow attempts to mask the effectiveness of Ukrainian forces while maintaining support for the war at home.
Tu-22M Backfire Bomber from Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Tu-22M3 Russian Bomber. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
The domestic Ukrainian drone industry has undergone significant change since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022. What originally started as an ad hoc network of Ukrainian volunteers working to modify existing commercial quadcopter drones had morphed and grown substantially.
Today, the Ukrainian drone defense sector is capable of producing many thousands of unmanned systems per year, including long-range strike drones with significant payload capacity that can strike deep within the Russian heartland.
Sea Baby Drone Ukraine. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Ukraine Has Two Months Before Putin Could Order Mobilization: Ukrainian authorities have only two months to end the war with Russia. If that does not happen, the Kremlin may decide to escalate it further, Czech President Petr Pavel said, according to The Telegraph.
With parliamentary elections coming soon, Russian President Vladimir Putin may order a large mobilization right after the September 20 elections, Pavel said.
Tu-160 Bomber. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Managing the nation’s defense workforce across commands and at scale has reached a critical inflection point. When mission success depends on “speed of readiness,” commanders and agency leaders still find themselves relying on fragmented spreadsheets and rigid job descriptions to assemble the skills they need.
As most defense officials have long conceded, the military does not have a data collection problem; it has a data silos problem.
Belgium has confirmed a defence acquisition valued at more than €3bn ($3.4bn) at the Nato Summit held in Ankara, Türkiye.
Hamlet Avagyan left his native Armenia for Ukraine in 2015 to fight against Russian military and pro-Russian separatists.
Avagyan committed for three months, yet he never left. He told Ukrainska Pravda, an independent news outlet, that a chance meeting with a Ukrainian soldier changed his outlook forever.
Related: Ukraine is using a World War I ‘creeping barrage’ tactic to turn the tide of the war“In Avdiivka, I met Da Vinci,” said Avagyan, now a major in the Ukrainian military.
The UK Defence Investment Plan has finally been published, offering much-needed hope to the UK’s defence industrial base.
The Russians have gone ‘Mad Max’ with roving ‘mobile drone units’ effectively targeting inbound drones for destruction.
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