Nearly two weeks after Ukraine’s audacious “Operation Spiderweb” drone strike destroyed numerous Russian strategic bombers, Vladimir Putin’s promised retaliation has been limited to more “routine” drone and missile barrages,

A FTER WEEKS of nebulous ceasefire talks at the urging of a semi-engaged President Donald Trump, the war between Russia and Ukraine is intensifying again in savage style and with escalating stakes. In the last two weeks there have been record-breaking Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities and spectacular Ukrainian drone raids on Russia’s strategic bomber force,

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s conditions for ending the war in Ukraine include a demand that Western leaders pledge in writing to stop enlarging NATO eastwards, according to reports.