Tetiana Frolova

Despite not engaging in active combat operations against Ukraine in late 2025, Belarus continues to serve as a critical industrial support hub for Russia’s military, providing weapons components, vehicle platforms, and ammunition production capacity.

The Pentagon has launched a sweeping $1 billion initiative to purchase hundreds of thousands of one-way attack drones over the next two years, a major shift toward mass-fielding lower-cost unmanned systems, according to  The War Zone .

Secret US–Russia peace talks inside the Kremlin dragged past midnight but ended without a breakthrough, with Vladimir Putin rejecting key American proposals as Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and independent analysts warned that Moscow’s claims of progress don’t match battlefield reality.

Vladimir Putin’s generals briefed him on the “capture” of two Ukrainian cities this weekend—assertions quickly contradicted by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and OSINT analysts, whose battlefield maps show the towns remain contested and far from the sweeping advances Moscow claims.