Investigations

Ukrainian forces destroyed three and damaged five Russian Iskander and S-400 launchers used for ballistic missile attacks during September and early October 2026, according to Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara.

Wrecked T-90Ms are now arriving at the same Russian factory responsible for building new ones, raising a bigger question about Moscow’s tank output: how many are actually new, and how many are rebuilt battlefield losses?

Russia’s Pole-21 is designed to blind some of Ukraine’s most sophisticated weapons by drowning out the satellite signals they need to find their targets. But behind Russia’s powerful electronic warfare system is a vulnerability Moscow has yet to eliminate: its continued dependence on foreign technology.

How do you spread propaganda in a country as resilient to disinformation as Finland? Russian propagandists have been grappling with this question for years and have found ways to adapt.

Internal Russian defense documents reveal two major arms programs supplying Iran with attack helicopters and armored vehicles—along with the companies, training systems, offshore payments, and sanctioned vessels that support them.

Exclusively acquired documentation by UNITED24 Media shows that Russia is constructing a huge, high-cost defense manufacturing and storage site far from NATO and Ukrainian strike reach to expand its missile-making capabilities. 

About 78% of the identified components in the inertial navigation system of Russia's 9M723 Iskander-M ballistic missile are US-made, an independent analysis has found.

A Soviet debt deal gave South Korea a fleet of Russian helicopters that became indispensable for fighting wildfires. More than 30 years later, Dallas Analytics has traced efforts to keep those aircraft flying back toward sanctioned Russian aviation companies—turning a firefighting necessity into an uncomfortable national-security problem.

Russia’s plans for militarizing space begin on the factory floor. Moscow’s drive to quadruple production of Angara launch vehicles—used to place Ministry of Defense satellites into orbit—relies heavily on Chinese-made industrial technology supplied by manufacturers that also operate in Europe and the United States.

Internal Russian defence -industry documents obtained by Dallas Analytics show the RS-28 Sarmat shipped without its paperwork and unpriced for three years – while the Kremlin announced it on combat duty.