Azerbaijan and/or Turkiye might decide to forcibly “demilitarize” Armenia once Russia no longer has any CSTO mutual defense commitments to it in order to sustainably ensure that the regional threat of Armenian revanchism never returns. Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan announced that his country plans to withdraw from the CSTO at …

In today’s summary: Russian troops are rushing to the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka highway on the northern flank of the Avdeevsky operational areaThe Russian Armed Forces entered the eastern suburbs of Chasov Yar, but attempts to storm the city head-on seem futileThe Russian Ministry of Defense and Ramzan Kadyrov reported on the “liberation” …

The West’s permission to hit Russia with long-range weapons was the overcoming of another important red line in this war (and the first missile strikes immediately followed). In response, Putin said that Russia can put its weapons in the regions from where strikes will be carried out on the “sensitive …