Many analysts seem focused on whether proclamations by Russia that it has “won” the battle for Soledar are accurate or…
I have not weighed in with a major piece in a while because I did not feel enough has changed…
Winter is coming, but it won’t affect Russia and Ukraine equally in this war (Russian/Русский перевод; Если вы состоите в российской…
If you’re feeling something stirring deep inside your soul when it comes Ukraine’s fight for its freedom against Putin’s Russia,…
The current Ukrainian advances will be the ones to push Russian ground forces completely out of Ukraine, leaving any remaining…
Putin’s mobilization is myopically feared by some but does more damage to him at home than anything to help the…
Revisiting my coverage from early in Putin’s escalation campaign and a new excerpt (Russian/Русский перевод) By Brian E. Frydenborg (Twitter @bfry1981, LinkedIn,…
Losing this badly will help wake up millions of Russians to some level of reality, and they will blame Putin.…
There are many Twitter accounts focusing a lot of their attention on the war in Ukraine, and a decent number…
The factors explaining why things are now happening the way they are happening (Russian/Русский перевод) By Brian E. Frydenborg (Twitter @bfry1981, LinkedIn,…
Dynamics over time are the key to analyzing just about anything, and they clearly favor Ukraine in Russia’s failing war…
Some fools claim that the West has been the aggressor against Russia here. The best argument against this—that enthusiastically helping…
Three maps juxtaposed in one collage are worth at least three-thousand words and tell the bigger picture of the war…
Apart from other thematic ways I already discussed that Putin today is repeating Stalin’s mistakes from the disastrous launching of…
Putin thought he could use Ukraine’s complicated history that even divides Ukraine to his significant advantage in his massive military…