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Analyses | | Andrzej Wilk

An unprecedentedly intense beginning to the Russian Armed Forces winter training period

In the first week of December, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation started to carry out testing ground exercises as part of the winter training period which has just begun, and which also mark the beginning of the new training year…
Analyses | | Andrzej Wilk

By armour and by fear the Russian army on the western flank

On 31 May, the head of the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Defence, General Sergei Shoigu, speaking at the ministry’s college, announced that by the end of this year around 20 large tactical formations and military units will be created…
Analyses | | Andrzej Wilk

Troops withdrawing Russian forces still on Ukraines borders

On 22 April, the so-called active phase of the combat readiness test of the Southern and Western Military Districts (MDs) being held at military training grounds in Crimea and the surrounding waters reached its final stage. A total of 10,…
Analyses | | Marek Menkiszak, Andrzej Wilk

Russian pressure on Ukraine military and political dimensions

Since the end of March, the government in Kyiv has been warning that Russia is transferring additional armed forces to the Ukrainian border, which, as it says, may mean Russia is making preparations for a new phase of military operations.…
Analyses | | Krzysztof Nieczypor, Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski

The Donbas crisis between bluff and war

During the last days of March, representatives of Ukraine’s government (including President Zelensky) and army announced that Russia was preparing a wide-ranging armed provocation against Ukraine. According to the Commander-in-Chief of the…