War in Ukraine: military strategies

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• ‘Active defence’: how Ukraine plans to survive 2024

  After its summer counteroffensive ended in failure, Kyiv is shifting to a new strategy as it prepares itself for a third year of war

  
• Missiles from Iran and North Korea boost Russia’s onslaught on Ukraine

  Moscow changes tactics with unprecedented barrages aiming ‘to crack the code’ of Ukrainian air defences

  
• Military briefing: Russia has the upper hand in electronic warfare with Ukraine

  Both Kyiv and Moscow seek to bolster drone jamming capabilities as attacks mount

  
• Russia’s new offensive zeroes in on eastern Ukrainian city

  Moscow has gambled on pouring troops, bombs and artillery into large-scale assault on Avdiivka

  
• Military briefing: the medics battling on Ukraine’s ‘second frontline’

  Poor quality tourniquets and lack of medical training are costing soldiers’ lives, say volunteer doctors

  
• Military briefing: the advance of Ukraine’s ‘mosquito navy’

  Despite an essentially shipless maritime force, Kyiv has pushed back Russia’s Black Sea fleet and hit its bases

  
• The hard lessons from Ukraine’s summer offensive

  The country’s military is enjoying some success but it will be slow-going and requires allies to increase ammunition supplies

  
• Military briefing: Kyiv ignores calls for reset of its ‘sneak and peek’ tactics

  Attritional campaign in the south seeks to break Russian defences to enable breakthrough

  
• Military briefing: Ukraine switches to artillery power for eastern push

  After heavy losses in early counteroffensive, Kyiv changed tactics to pound Russian defences and clear path for infantry

  
• Military briefing: the mines stalling Ukraine’s advance

  No obstacle has been as daunting for Ukraine’s counteroffensive as the fields of explosives laid by Russia

  
• Military briefing: cluster bombs offer Ukraine swifter end to war

  Ammunition shunned by many countries seen as boost to Kyiv’s offensive against Russian forces

  
• Military briefing: Will the Wagner insurrection affect the Ukraine war?

  Prigozhin’s threatened putsch came at an opportune moment for Kyiv’s counteroffensive

  
• Military briefing: the drone attack on the Kremlin

  Subterfuge, attempted assassination or a brazen operation to embarrass Moscow?

  
• Military briefing: why Ukraine wants to neutralise Russia’s bases in Crimea

  Kyiv’s strikes on assets in the occupied peninsula are crucial to its counteroffensive

  
• Military briefing: does Ukraine need western fighter jets?

  Top-gun pilot ‘Juice’ says his Soviet-era plane cannot intercept Russian missiles

  
• How long can Russia keep fighting the war in Ukraine?

  Putin’s war machine is under enormous pressure, but Russia has the resources to sustain its efforts in Ukraine for some time to come

  
• Why are Ukraine’s allies arguing about tanks?

  Heavy fighting vehicles would give Kyiv a military advantage against Russia

  
• The 90km journey that changed the course of the war in Ukraine

  How Ukraine’s counter-offensive in the north-east dramatically turned the tide of the seven-month-long invasion

  
• ‘Big war is back’: 5 lessons from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

  Moscow remains undeterred from aims despite depleted ability to launch major ground offensive

  
• Inside Ukraine’s open-source war

  Digital networks are helping Ukraine resist the Russian invasion. Will they also reshape the future of conflict?

  
• How Russia’s mistakes and Ukrainian resistance altered Putin’s war

  Moscow’s initial hopes of lightning-fast victory foundered in face of fierce opposition and its own shortcomings