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The Ukrainian 141st Mechanized Brigade Is Outnumbered and Outgunned. It Counterattacked Anyway. A swift assault liberated two villages in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

The Ukrainian 141st Mechanized Brigade Is Outnumbered and Outgunned. It Counterattacked Anyway.

The Russians Spent 9 Months Saving Up Tanks. Now They're Getting Blown Up In Donetsk. A Russian mechanized assault on Kostyantynivka ended with heavy vehicle losses.

The Russians Spent 9 Months Saving Up Tanks. Now They're Getting Blown Up In Donetsk.

Ukraine's 59-Kill Cargo Plane Proves Low Tech Can Beat High Tech Ukraine is launching every possible light plane to defend against swarms of Russian Shahed drones

Ukraine's 59-Kill Cargo Plane Proves Low Tech Can Beat High Tech

'Die In Droves': 100,000 Russians Killed Or Wounded Trying To Take Pokrovsk This Year The Russians are losing 1,000 troops a day

'Die In Droves': 100,000 Russians Killed Or Wounded Trying To Take Pokrovsk This Year

Ukraine's Biggest Artillery Craves Ammo. 150,000 Shells May Arrive Soon. Greece is reportedly considering a huge ammo transfer.

Ukraine's Biggest Artillery Craves Ammo. 150,000 Shells May Arrive Soon.

Russia Landed One Of Its Last A-50U Radar Planes Within Range of Ukraine's Drones There might be four flyable A-50Us left

Russia Landed One Of Its Last A-50U Radar Planes Within Range of Ukraine's Drones

Flying Together in RF-4 Recon Jets, American and Iranian Crews Once Spied On The Soviets Iran and Afghanistan have long been useful bases for American efforts to monitor its rivals

Flying Together in RF-4 Recon Jets, American and Iranian Crews Once Spied On The Soviets

How Many Tanks Russia Can Produce Every Year—And How—Is A Major Mystery We’ve got some new clues

How Many Tanks Russia Can Produce Every Year—And How—Is A Major Mystery

Yes, Russian Tank Production Is Collapsing Old tanks are running out—and new ones are too hard to build

Yes, Russian Tank Production Is Collapsing

Ukraine Plays Deadly Whack-A-Bridge At Lyman—But Russian Engineers Are Winning One river is helping to protect a key Ukrainian town

Ukraine Plays Deadly Whack-A-Bridge At Lyman—But Russian Engineers Are Winning

Vanessa Guillén and the Importance of Speaking Up Hey there Angry Planet listeners, Matthew here.

Sign of the times: @mjgault.bsky.social interviewed ABC's John Quiñones re: his podcast about Vanessa Guillén, a soldier who was murdered at Ft Hood in 2020. When Gault asked how Sec. Def. Pete Hegseth could roll back reforms made in response to Guillén's death, a PR person cut in to shut it down.

To Advance Near Pokrovsk, Russian Troops March Over A 'Carpet Of Corpses' Ukrainian drones make every step extremely dangerous

To Advance Near Pokrovsk, Russian Troops March Over A 'Carpet Of Corpses'

Russia's Biggest Tank Division Is Heading Straight For Zaporizhzhia Unnoticed by the wider world, the Russian army is steadily marching west through south Donetsk

Russia's Biggest Tank Division Is Heading Straight For Zaporizhzhia

Ukraine's 110th Mechanized Brigade Survived The Hardest Fights Of The War. Now It's Battling A Whole Russian Tank Division. Can the brigade slow the 90th Tank Division's advance?

Ukraine's 110th Mechanized Brigade Survived The Hardest Fights Of The War. Now It's Battling A Whole Russian Tank Division.

What Happens When 2 Armies Try To Surround Each Other? We're Finding Out In Chaotic Eastern Ukraine. Opposing pincer maneuvers fuel deepening chaos around Pokrovsk

What Happens When 2 Armies Try To Surround Each Other? We're Finding Out In Chaotic Eastern Ukraine.

Near Pokrovsk, Ukraine Discovers Chaos Favors The Bigger Army Every attack exposes flanks to counterattack, and Russia has more troops for both

Near Pokrovsk, Ukraine Discovers Chaos Favors The Bigger Army

Ukraine Hits The Planes That Haul Russia's Missiles Ukrainian drones are targeting the cargo planes that make Russia's own air raids on Ukrainian cities possible

Ukraine Hits The Planes That Haul Russia's Missiles

Ukraine's Lesson For Taiwan: Build Big, Cheap And Numerous Cruise Missiles Taipei needs its own Flamingo

Ukraine's Lesson For Taiwan: Build Big, Cheap And Numerous Cruise Missiles

The Russians Are Shoving Artillery Into The Chaotic Pocket Outside Pokrovsk At least one big gun is now 'scrap metal'

The Russians Are Shoving Artillery Into The Chaotic Pocket Outside Pokrovsk

A Weary Ukrainian Brigade Held Off Russia's Huge 90th Tank Division ... For 6 Months The 72nd Mechanized Brigade has a reputation for enduring long, grueling fights

A Weary Ukrainian Brigade Held Off Russia's Huge 90th Tank Division ... For 6 Months

Russia Has Committed All Available Marines To The 'Final' Battle For Pokrovsk The 61st Naval Infantry Brigade joins the fight

Russia Has Committed All Available Marines To The 'Final' Battle For Pokrovsk

The Russian MiG-29 Fighter Flopped Hard In Middle East Wars It's not a bad jet, but it did fly for bad air forces

The Russian MiG-29 Fighter Flopped Hard In Middle East Wars

Russia's Last 1,000 Tanks Are 50 Years Old—But Ukraine Should Still Worry In a war where drones rule and tanks function as glorified artillery pieces, 50-year-old steel works just fine

Russia's Last 1,000 Tanks Are 50 Years Old—But Ukraine Should Still Worry

Ukraine Can Now Deploy Hundreds of M-2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles A summer purchase grew the M-2 force to 11 battalions

Ukraine Can Now Deploy Hundreds of M-2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles

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The 'Last, Final Battle' For Eastern Ukraine Has Begun 80% of Russian reinforcements are marching on Pokrovsk

The 'Last, Final Battle' For Eastern Ukraine Has Begun

Russia Is So Scared Of Ukrainian Drones, It's Stripping The Turrets Off Tanks When you’ve lost 22,000 vehicles, converting a T-72 into an infantry carrier makes total sense

Russia Is So Scared Of Ukrainian Drones, It's Stripping The Turrets Off Tanks

Missile Hunters: Ukraine And Russia Race To Wipe Out Each Other's Launch Crews It's so hard to intercept a Russian Iskander missile in mid-air that the Ukrainians are now hunting the launchers, instead

Missile Hunters: Ukraine And Russia Race To Wipe Out Each Other's Launch Crews

The Ground Shakes in Eastern Ukraine As Russia's Biggest Division And Its T-90M Tanks Prepare to Attack The 90th Tank Division is repositioning for a major river battle

The Ground Shakes in Eastern Ukraine As Russia's Biggest Division And Its T-90M Tanks Prepare to Attack

To Propel Their Giant Flamingo Missiles, the Ukrainians Scraped Old Engines From a Landfill The AI-25TLs have just enough life left

To Propel Their Giant Flamingo Missiles, the Ukrainians Scraped Old Engines From a Landfill