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The struggle to protect the skies over Ukraine persists as NATO scrambles to deliver valuable Patriot interceptors to Kyiv.
Since the Patriot air defense system was first delivered to Ukraine, Kyiv has struggled with limited stocks of air defense missiles.
A 35th Fighter Squadron F-16 Fighting Falcon flies near the Korean peninsula during a dogfighting training scenario during exercise Ulchi Freedom Shield 25 at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Aug. 20, 2025.
U.S. Special Operations Command is looking for a new machine gun that weighs about 10 pounds and fires 5.56x45mm NATO rounds, said Navy Cmdr. Joe Vermette, a spokesperson for the command.
The Flyweight Assault Machine Gun would replace the Mk 46 — a special operations variant of the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon — which has been in service for about 30 years, Vermette told Task & Purpose.
Ukraine continues its long-range drone and missile strike campaign against Russia, having struck two large oil refineries in long-range attacks overnight into August 6.
The strikes damaged critical Russian fuel infrastructure over 800 miles from the front lines as Moscow struggles to keep its domestic oil market supplied.
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Less than a month after Zelenskyy dismissed Mykhailo Fedorov as Minister of Defense and Oleksandr Syrskyi as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Moscow seems to be conducting its own “shake-up” in the Ministry of Defense.
Yesterday, Vladimir Putin announced that some changes were being made in the command structure of the Russian Armed Forces “aimed at improving the systems of materiel and military-technical support for the troops.” The aim is to strengthen the Russian backline, logistics, and procurement systems to better support troops at the front lines.
Ukraine’s recent barrages of drone attacks have disrupted daily life in Russia, knocked oil refinery capacity offline, and even encouraged allied nations to change the way they think about warfare.
A new report also says they have affected Russians’ travel plans.
Tu-22M3 Bomber from Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Russia Tu-22M Bomber. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
According to the New Voice of Ukraine, citing the Telegram channel Astra and reports from the Russian newspaper Kommersant, passenger traffic on flights between Moscow and St.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the country’s military has hit two Russian oil refineries in “long-range” attacks.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck the Slavneft-Yanos refinery in Yaroslavl and the Bashneft-Novoil refinery in Bashkortostan.
Putin Back in 2023. Image Credit: Russian Federation
In Yaroslavl, huge clouds of black smoke were seen over the city, as videos and photos have shown on social media.
At the beginning of this week, markets and the ordinary person breathed a collective sigh of relief as the forty-seventh President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, appeared to walk back his previous warning of “Military Terror” attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Most people were not sighing because they supported the Islamic Republic.
U.S. Air Force Capt. Nick “Laz” Le Tourneau, F-22 Raptor Aerial Demonstration Team pilot and commander, practices at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, VA, November 12th, 2025.
Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***IranOver the last two weeks, President Donald Trump repeatedly threatened major attacks on Iran. Going into the weekend, multiple news outlets reported that he was mulling a major bombing campaign — which would almost certainly result in retaliatory strikes against U.S. bases and allies around the region.
Vladimir Putin has a major problem, and it has to do with the availability of oil and gasoline.
The Ukrainians have come up with a stunningly effective tactic – hit Russia’s energy infrastructure with long-range loitering munitions that have crushed refineries and other fuel processing facilities.
Putin in May of 2021 Russian Federation Photo
This has created pain at the pump for citizens who are not used to paying significant amounts for petrol.
The attacks keep on coming.
Hegseth Shifts Blame Over Missile Shortage to Second-In-Command – The United States’ apparent long-range missile shortage is no longer a secret, and reports this week have revealed how President Donald Trump clashed with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the matter during a meeting at Camp David last week. The president reportedly lashed out at the defense secretary and other administration officials after learning that U.S. stockpiles of several key long-range missiles and air-defense interceptors had fallen to levels lower than initially believed.