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Analyses |
| Filip Rudnik
In late August, Gazprom published its financial report for the first half of this year. It gave the company’s net income as 296.2 billion roubles ($3.1 billion), an exceptionally low figure compared to the previous decade (excluding 2020,…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
Over the past few days, Ukrainian forces have stepped up their offensive operations south-east of Velyka Novosilka in Donetsk oblast, and have achieved minor success in the vicinity of Novomayorske. South-west of Bakhmut, they succeeded in…
Analyses |
| Jakub Ber, Piotr Żochowski, Jacek Tarociński
During the period of 5–8 September there was no significant change in the position of the warring parties. Armed clashes are still mainly focused on the vicinity of the villages of Novoprokopivka and Verbove in the Zaporizhzhia oblast,…
Analyses |
| Jakub Ber, Piotr Żochowski, Jacek Tarociński
The heaviest fighting is still on the Zaporizhzhia front, primarily in the area of the village of Verbove and the hills east of Novoprokopivka. The combatants’ exact positions are unknown, but the Ukrainians are managing to widen the wedge…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
On 30 August, the Ukrainians carried out their largest drone attack on Russian territory to date, while also expanding their list of targets to include Pskov airfield, which lies almost 700km north of the country’s border (the 334th…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
On 25 August, an air crash occurred in Zhytomyr oblast. According to initial reports, two MiG-29 fighter jets collided. The Ukrainian Air Force Command referred to the incident the following day, stating that “the crews of two L-39 trainer…
Analyses |
| Jakub Ber, Piotr Żochowski, Jacek Tarociński
On 23 August, an explosion occurred at the location of an S-400 air and missile defence system in the area of the village of Olenivka on the Tarkhankut peninsula, the westernmost part of Crimea. A drone video showing the explosion was…
Analyses |
| Maria Domańska
On 23 August, shortly after 6pm Moscow time, an Embraer Legacy 600 aircraft owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s company, which had been flying from Moscow to St Petersburg, crashed in Tver oblast. According to the Federal Air Transport Agency (…
OSW Commentary |
| Miłosz Bartosiewicz
The Russian Federation, despite its limited abilities, has significantly strengthened its influence in Africa over recent years through the skilful use of its economic tools and ‘controlled chaos’ – a set of aggressive actions designed to…
Analyses |
| Jakub Ber, Jacek Tarociński
Speaking in the Netherlands on 20 August, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky and Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte announced that the Hague would be handing over F-16 multi-role aircraft to Kyiv. The Ukrainian leader wrote on social…