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A senior US official has threatened to turn 2025 into a nightmare for Russia unless Moscow comes to the negotiating table on terms amenable to Kiev. Asked to comment, a well-respected political and military affairs expert told Sputnik that the rhetoric coming from the White House reeks of desperation and may signal preparations to dump Kiev.

Relations between Ukraine’s president and the country’s top commander hit a dangerous low point last month after the general characterized Ukraine’s NATO-sponsored counteroffensive as a costly “stalemate” that would yield no “deep and beautiful breakthrough.”

St. Petersburg-based upstart drone design bureau Oko (lit. ‘Eye’) has unveiled a modernized variant of its Privet-82 (‘Hi-82’) budget fixed-wing kamikaze drone. Sputnik reached out to Oko’s CEO to get a better sense of the drones’ capabilities, and what makes the company tick.

Ukraine’s president has announced plans to beef up fortification-building efforts across the country, conceding to his top general that the NATO-sponsored conflict with Russia has hit a “stalemate” after Kiev’s disastrous counteroffensive. But no amount of concrete will be able to alter the Russian army’s plans, a leading military observer says.

Call it a military aid with benefits, but the US has found a shrewd way to support Ukraine while simultaneously giving its defense industry a hearty pat on the back.

Kiev’s counteroffensive has bled the military dry, accelerating the nation’s depopulation as fighting age men are killed or flee to avoid being conscripted into a senseless meat grinder. Authorities are looking at private recruitment, but that’s likely just an attempt to suck more resources out of Western countries, an observer tells Sputnik.

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Ukraine has come face-to-face with the hard reality of a deficit of 155-mm caliber shells after the beginning of Israels ground operation in the Gaza Strip. How long can Ukraine hold on?

The crisis in the Middle East, the possibility of a government shutdown and the election of a new House speaker have shifted Washington’s attention away from Ukraine, with officials in the Pentagon and civilian agencies sending increasingly desperate warning signals that they’re running out of cash to sink into NATO’s proxy war against Russia.

Electronic warfare has been a Russian strong suit going back to the mid-20th century and the Soviet military doctrine’s emphasis on the “total integration of electronic warfare and physical destruction resources” on the battlefield. Today, Russia has an array of short, medium, long and ultra-long range electronic warfare systems at its disposal.