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Analyses |
| Agata Wierzbowska-Miazga, Witold Rodkiewicz, Tadeusz Iwański, Andrzej Wilk
Russia is escalating its conflict with Ukraine. Kyiv’s efforts to resolve the conflict are mainly focused on diplomacy.
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk
The Russians’ complete mastery of Crimea can only be stopped by a decision from Moscow to either change the operation’s objective or call a halt to it.
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk
On 16 December the spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defence said that Iskander were part of the equipment of the Western Military District.
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk
Russian air policing in Belarus confirms the lack of balance in military relations between Moscow and Minsk.
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk
On 20-26 September, the active (military) phase of the strategic-level exercises held by the armed forces of Russia and Belarus, entitled ‘West 2013’, were held. The scenario and nature of the exercises leave no doubt that the Russian/…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk
13-20 July saw the largest previously unscheduled military training exercise since the collapse of the USSR, the so-called ‘readiness test’ in the Far East of the country, including up to 160,000 soldiers. The tests of the combat readiness…
OSW Commentary |
| Andrzej Wilk
The heightened activity of the Russian Armed Forces has demonstrated that they have a relatively large number of units in different service branches which have already achieved the level of combat readiness defined at the onset of the…
Analyses |
| Marek Menkiszak, Andrzej Wilk
US President Barack Obama used his speech in Berlin on 19 June to present a new nuclear disarmament plan. He called upon Russia to start talks on a further reduction in the US and Russian arsenals of strategic nuclear warheads – by up to a…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk
On two separate occasions (25 January and 5 February), the Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the military-industrial complex, questioned the sense of Russia buying Mistral amphibious assault ships from France.
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk
On 6 November, President Vladimir Putin dismissed Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, who had held that position since 2007. At the same time he appointed Sergei Shoigu, the governor of the Moscow region, to the post; several years earlier…