1. ‘The Russian army has two options for the upcoming offensive’: Ukraine withdraws, but does not do so lightly
The Ukrainian army has had to withdraw in several places in Donetsk province, the commander-in-chief admits. Reason to panic?
No, it fits in with a deliberate strategy, says Mart de Kruif, former commander of the Dutch army. “The army has not lost control of the defense.”
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2. Can the use of AI on the front turn the tide? Ukrainians already have a lot of hope
Project Maven, a new AI tool for detecting potential targets on the battlefield using drone images, was set to revolutionize modern warfare. But the war in Ukraine makes clear how difficult it is to get 21st century data into 19th century trenches.
“We thought for a while that this was going to be a cyber war. But then it started to look more like an old-fashioned tank battle from World War II to us.”
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3. ‘We will drive them out of the air bases in Crimea’: Ukraine is now fully deploying the new ATACMS missile
According to the Russians, the long-range version of the ATACMS missile, which Ukraine had to wait a long time for, has now been deployed several times in Crimea. Kiev is trying to eliminate crucial enemy positions on the peninsula with the American missile.
“It’s like the naval fleet,” says President Volodymyr Zelensky. “We have driven them out of our territorial waters. Now we will drive them out of the air bases in Crimea.”
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4. Why the West must fully support Ukraine now: ‘We think the Russians can continue to fight like this. But they can’t do that
“Putin is deliberately imitating things that Hitler did,” says renowned historian Timothy D. Snyder. A conversation about the advantage of the Russians, Trump’s desire for revenge and freedom.
“We have together economies that are 250 times the size of the Ukrainian economy and we are 25 times the size of the Russian economy. We should have been able to immediately translate our economic power into a military advantage for Ukraine, and we didn’t do that.”
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5. Neutrality, poison pills and the role of Boris Johnson: more and more details are known about failed peace talks between Ukraine and Russia
For those who remember: in the first weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, both sides still talked about peace. Could the outlines of those conversations, about which more details will be released, still be useful today?
“I have seen it in so many negotiations: elements that were once excluded from the table are later recycled again.”
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6. Ukraine accuses Russia of using cluster munitions to target ‘Harry Potter castle’ in Odessa
Russia attacked the Ukrainian city of Odessa on Monday with cluster munitions to cause as many casualties as possible, Ukraine claims. The Russians usually attack the port of the Black Sea city, but on Monday an academy building was hit, killing five.
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7. From WWI ‘gas mask breaker’ to cluster munitions: these are Putin’s banned weapons
There are more and more accusations against Russia about the use of chemical and other banned weapons. Will Russia ever have to answer for it?
“Russia has veto power in the UN Security Council. That organ is as good as dead due to the war in Ukraine. Russia no longer cares about sanctions.”
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8. ‘They will never be able to operate at the front for long’: can Belgian F-16s change the tone of the war in Ukraine?
Belgium may send several F-16s to Ukraine this year. This concerns a maximum of four devices. But according to former Colonel Roger Housen, the broad deployment of the F-16s will be a… “multi-role”fighter aircraft, remain very limited in practice.
“They won’t accomplish much. That’s because F-16s only pay off if they are part of a functioning ecosystem.”
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9. ▶ Ukraine carries out ‘possibly one of the deadliest attacks of the war’ on Russian training camp with new American missiles
Ukraine this week attacked a military training area of the Russian army in the occupied Luhansk region. This happened with four American ATACMS missiles. Images show how the rockets hit a large group of more than a hundred Russian soldiers.
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10. Hundreds of kilometers of new trenches must stop Russians on the Ukrainian front. But is that still on time?
Ukraine is building hundreds of kilometers of new defense lines to stop the steady Russian advance. But analysts doubt whether the lines are enough to prevent a breakthrough.
“This period is probably the most vulnerable time for Ukraine,” Michael Kofman, military analyst at the American think tank Carnegie, said in the podcast last week The Russia Contingency. He speaks of “one of the most challenging situations” since the invasion due to the Ukrainian shortage of lines, combined with shortages of anti-aircraft defenses, artillery and manpower.
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