Russia and Ukraine are both beefing up their air defenses ahead of another winter of bombardment

Tech Insider
Ukraine Kyiv air defense
Ukrainian air-defense systems fire into the sky outside Kyiv on November 25.

Libkos/Getty Images

Russia is wrestling with a labor crisis — and is making it even worse by sending highly-skilled workers to war

Tech Insider
Russian border
People carrying luggage walk past the Russian side of the border toward the Nizhniy Lars customs checkpoint between Georgia and Russia on September 25, 2022.

-/AFP via Getty Images

Russia has activated a sleeper network of spies in Ukraine to try to exploit internal divisions, Ukrainian official says

Tech Insider
Stock photo of a profile silhouette of a Russian man hacker with the Soviet Union flag in the background.
Stock photo of a profile silhouette of a Russian man hacker with the Soviet Union flag in the background.

Getty Images

Russian students are being asked to donate their vapes so the parts can be used in combat drones, report says

Tech Insider
e cigarette vaping

Rainer Jensen/picture alliance via Getty Images

Ukraine turned a Soviet antiaircraft gun into a deadly ground weapon that can kill dozens of soldiers at a time, report says

Tech Insider
Close-up of the anti-aircraft gun KS-19.
Close-up of the antiaircraft gun KS-19.

reflection_art/Getty Images

Russia has likely already sacrificed air defense on NATO borders by sending prized S-400s to shore up losses in Ukraine: UK intel

Tech Insider
An S-400 defense system, sent by Russia, at a joint training drill with Belarus in 2022.
An S-400 defense system, sent by Russia, at a joint training drill with Belarus in 2022.

Russian Defense Ministry / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Russia put a Meta employee on a wanted list after designating the company a 'terrorist and extremist' organization

Tech Insider
Russia Moscow Pantsir air-defense system
A Pantsir air-defense system on the roof of the Ministry of Defense in Moscow in March 2023.

STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Russia was taken by surprise when it lost 76 passenger planes due to Ukraine invasion sanctions, minister says

Tech Insider
An Russian aircraft of the airline Rossiya, part of the Aeroflot group of companies.
An Russian Rossiya airline plane.

Maksim Konstantinov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Russia offered to end its invasion of Ukraine if it dumped plans to join NATO, but Kyiv feared a double-cross, says negotiator

Tech Insider
Volodymyr Zelenskyy & Vladimir Putin.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy & Vladimir Putin.

Getty Images

Russian forces are crashing headlong into another city using some of the same catastrophic tactics that bloodied its army in Bakhmut

Tech Insider
Members of Ukraine's National Guard Omega Special Purpose fire a SPG-9 anti-tank grenade launcher toward Russian troops in the front line town of Avdiivka, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine November 8, 2023.
Members of Ukraine's National Guard Omega Special Purpose fire a SPG-9 anti-tank grenade launcher toward Russian troops in the front line town of Avdiivka, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine Nove
Subscribe to Ukraine