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Ukraine is attacking Russia with a strategic drone and missile campaign that aims to degrade Russia’s military air defenses, its supply and logistics lines of transportation, and most importantly, its oil and gas infrastructure.

With Russia in the midst of a national holiday weekend, which is the start of the typical Russian holiday season, there are long gas lines and fuel shortages all across the Russian-occupied and illegally annexed Crimea, which has traditionally been a favorite holiday destination on the Black Sea.

Kirov-Class Battlecruiser Sailing. Image Credit: X Post.

The Defense Department’s enterprise generative AI platform is now being used by 1.5 million personnel, according to Pentagon CTO Emil Michael.
GenAI.mil was introduced in December to give DOD employees access to commercial AI tools and bring efficiencies to their workflows. Google’s Gemini products were the first to be made available in the new system, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok were also set to be integrated.
There were just 80,000 AI users in December, Michael noted during remarks at the Hudson Institute on Friday.

In August 2022, almost six months after an unprovoked and criminal invasion of his country on 24 February by Vladimir Putin’s Russian military, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy laid down a marker for one of his objectives to be achieved by the end of the war.

“Crimea is Ukrainian, and we will never give it up,” he said at the time, and added, “we will not forget that the Russian war against Ukraine began with the occupation of Crimea. This Russian war…began with Crimea and must end with Crimea – with its liberation.

When Russia escalated its air campaign against Ukraine with Zircon hypersonic missile strikes on Kyiv and other major urban population centers earlier this month, it was clearer than ever that an escalation was underway. Moscow said the strikes were a retaliation for recent Ukrainian long-range drone and missile barrages that continue to impact its war economy – particularly its energy industry.

The strikes followed days of warnings from Russian officials that foreign diplomats in Kyiv were unsafe, but now it looks as though the escalation may not end there.

Ukraine Keeps Embarrassing Russia: It’s hard to ignore Ukraine’s newfound confidence in the war. Its long-range drone campaigns are hammering Russia and bringing the fight back across the border, and they’re serving two purposes at once: degrading Moscow’s ability to sustain the war while publicly exposing vulnerabilities the Kremlin would also rather keep hidden. Recent Ukrainian strikes have targeted oil facilities and defense manufacturers, causing major disruption to the Russian economy and often occurring at moments of particular political significance.

The recent St.

Soldiers assigned to the McGregor Range Complex, New Mexico, are missing meals because trying to eat at the base’s dining facility, or DFAC, often means waiting for an hour or more, two soldiers currently at the base told Task & Purpose.
The soldiers, speaking on the condition that their names not be used, said they have missed meals as a result of the long lines, which they say are a regular occurrence at the base, which is part of Fort Bliss, Texas. 
Video of one such line began making the rounds on social media earlier this week.

The Army spent over a billion dollars on nearly 10,000 augmented-reality headsets for soldiers to wear in combat. A federal watchdog reported this week that they won’t end up being used.
The Government Accountability Office looked at programs across the Department of Defense that “exceeded cost estimates and delivery schedules — wasting billions of dollars and decades of time,” according to a report released Tuesday. One of the programs highlighted in the report is the Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System, or IVAS headset program.

The “Iran Deal” Is a Mirage: Why This 60-Day Ceasefire Won’t Hold: In between irrational exuberance over SpaceX’s initial public offering (IPO) and the UFC fight night scheduled for this Sunday evening, June 14, President Donald Trump appears to have grown bored with the major Middle East regime-change war of choice that began more than 100 days ago.

The New Iran Deal? 

A U.S. Air Force F-15EX Eagle II flies over the Gulf of America, September 16, 2025.

In 2026, many mainstream news reports have focused on the staggeringly high casualties that the Russian Armed Forces have suffered in Ukraine.

What many reports seem to miss, however, is the large casualty rate that Ukraine has suffered after four years of war and the looming demographic crisis that the country is bound to face after the war.

Msta-S Russian Army. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

The war in Ukraine has delivered perhaps the most important armored warfare lesson since World War II. Remarkably, neither the American M1 Abrams nor the German Leopard 2 has performed as Western planners envisioned when designing the tanks during the Cold War. Built for fast-moving armored offensives under the cover of NATO air superiority, these tanks now face a battlefield saturated with 21st-century tech, including FPV drones, loitering munitions, constant aerial surveillance, and precision artillery.

The result: tanks are struggling to survive.