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The Ukrainian Armed Forces have conducted their first-ever ballistic missile strike against Moscow, marking a major milestone in the country’s rapidly expanding long range attacks on major population centres. Although Ukrainian authorities have not officially confirmed the weapon used, Russian military sources and multiple media reports have claimed that the attack employed a newly developed Ukrainian-produced ballistic missile.

Russia is fighting this war badly. That is not the same as losing it; the difference is the whole argument.

The latest CSIS assessment hands Washington the numbers it has wanted to hear for three years. Roughly 1.4 million Russian casualties since February 2022.

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Somewhere between 400,000 and 450,000 dead. Advances in some sectors are measured not in miles but in tens of meters a day.

A monthly loss rate that may now be running ahead of the pace at which Moscow can put fresh men into uniform.

For most of the Russian invasion, Ukraine has fought a defensive war. It was outgunned and outnumbered from the start, with Kyiv focusing on holding territory while pleading with its Western allies for long-range weapons that it argued were necessary to strike targets deep inside Russian territory.

Even as recently as last year, when Zelenskyy had a tense meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance at the White House, it appeared possible that Ukraine’s military campaign could be scaled back under mounting political pressure.

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Putin Knows He’s Losing The War With Ukraine: Russian President Putin has publicly acknowledged for the first time that the cause of Russian citizens facing fuel shortages is due to waves of Ukrainian drone attacks deep inside the country.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has now dragged on longer than World War I and World War II, which Russia calls “The Great Patriotic War.”

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The Pentagon awarded a $500 million contract to AeroVironment, a defense company that makes Switchblade loitering drones and other tech such as the LOCUST directed energy laser, to procure commercial counter-drone technology for the military over the next three years.
The award language contained few details, but was listed under the Army section of the Defense Department’s online contract update posted Wednesday.

A battle in Congress has sparked a fierce debate among veterans groups about whether legislation that would expand benefits for veterans, caregivers, and survivors is worth the price of reducing future disability ratings for sleep apnea and tinnitus.
Many of the more than 60 bills that are bundled in the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act are legislative proposals that veterans service organizations have long fought for, such as the Major Richard Star Act, which allows veterans with fewer than 20 years of service to collect both disability compensation and retirement pay at the same time.

The Air Force recently experimented with multiple artificial intelligence tools designed to improve battle management, expanding on and validating the service’s past work to test the technology for future operations.
The Department of the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) Cross-Functional Team hosted its inaugural Multi-Decision Advantage Sprint for Human-Machine Teaming (MASH) experiment in May. Held in Las Vegas, Nevada, the two-week event was the latest in a series of wargames designed to develop and test industry’s AI-enabled battle management tools.

The war in Ukraine, which many thought would be over in a matter of days or weeks, has now stretched on for four and a half years, and the cost in human lives is mind-numbing.

The war’s total casualty count is now over 2 million and is probably even higher than that, as Ukrainian casualties are probably underreported.

Su-34 Fullback. Creator: Vitaly V. Kuzmin. Credit: Vitaly V. Kuzmin

While Russian President Putin continues to paint a picture of inevitable victory, Moscow hasn’t accomplished one of its strategic goals since the start of this “special military operation.

The conflict with Iran has cost the typical American household an estimated $1,000, with some estimates going as high as $2,200.

These financial burdens stem from a combination of direct military spending and indirect costs of high fuel prices, food, and other expenses passed on to consumers.

This was according to an estimate shared last week by Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi.

Gas Prices Are Not The Only Culprit In Consumers’ Cost Increases

President Donald Trump signs Executive Orders in the Oval Office, Thursday, April 24, 2025.

As Ukraine continues its long-range strikes against targets deep inside Russian territory, the betting markets are signaling something interesting: the world seems to think that Vladimir Putin’s days as Russian president are coming to a close.

While most analysts still don’t predict an imminent ousting of the Russian president or a collapse within the Kremlin, traders on the prediction market Polymarket have increased the implied probability that Putin might simply step down some time this year.

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