A major Russian military production facility in Kopeysk near Chelyabinsk was partially destroyed on October 22, 2025, after a powerful explosion and a massive fire. The Plastmas plant is a key site in Russia’s defense industry known for manufacturing ...

Confidential complaints filed by troops and their families reveal patterns of wrongdoing in the ranks that are hidden from the Russian public.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered 135,000 men to be conscripted into the army, the largest autumn draft held by the Kremlin in nine years. “From Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 2025, conscript 135,000 Russian citizens aged 18 to 30 who are not in the reserve ...

Key Points and Summary - Russia’s defense industry is buckling under war demands and sanctions. Big-ticket programs—Su-75, Su-57, T-14 Armata and PAK DA—keep slipping while factories scramble for chips, cash and skilled labor. -Mobilization has ...

Russia and Belarus on Friday launched a long-planned joint military exercise involving thousands of troops that has raised concern in the West. The exercises, dubbed “Zapad 2025,” or “West 2025,” are held in Belarus and Russia and will last through ...

Sukhoi Su-35S aircrafts perform during the International Military-Technical Forum "Army 2022" at Kubinka military training ground in Moscow, Russia, on August 17, 2022. Sukhoi Su-35S aircrafts perform during the International Military-Technical Forum "Army ...

The story of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been one of upset expectations and wild swings in performance. At the start of the war, most of NATO saw Russia as an unstoppable behemoth, poised to quickly defeat Ukraine. Instead, Russia’s forces were ...

Belarus plans to add more Russian-made military aircraft to boost its border patrol capabilities. “We discussed many issues related to the air force. I asked for assistance and I got it,” the president of the former Soviet Republic, Alexander ...

On Sunday, Russia released images of its launch of a 3M22 Zircon hypersonic missile from a frigate in the Barents Sea, in the Arctic Ocean, near NATO borders. The launch comes against a backdrop of rising tensions with the West, just days after several ...

This project began as the vision of General Christopher Cavoli when he was the Commanding General, U.S. Army Europe and Africa (CG, USAREUR-AF). He realized that the U.S. Army Foreign Area Officers (FAOs) assigned to the European theater lacked the ...