Yahoo Home Michael Weiss is a Senior Correspondent for Yahoo News and the host of Foreign Office, a podcast on intelligence and international security, produced by the Free Russia Foundation and New Lines Magazine. He is the New York Times Bestselling author of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror and the author of a forthcoming history of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence service. He lives in New York.
Yahoo NewsUkraine making progress in push to retake Bakhmut from Russian forces
Russia’s grip on the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut appears to be loosening as Ukrainian forces continue their push to encircle and liberate the beleaguered city.
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Ukraine stands to gain from Wagner Group revolt in Russia, experts say
Two days after the Wagner Group’s stunning, short-lived rebellion inside Russia seemingly ended in a deal that saw the mercenaries’ boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, fly to exile in Belarus, more questions than answers remain.
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Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russia slowly makes progress
It isn't a blitzkrieg, but Ukraine is recapturing settlement after settlement in the south
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U.S. eyes Russia in destruction of Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam
One of the country's main arteries, which bisects the country, the dam across the Dnipro River was all but gone in video and satellite footage that has emerged over the last eighteen hours.
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How the U.K. helped convince the U.S. and its allies to spend big to help Ukraine in its war with Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has quietly acknowledged to foreign officials that the United Kingdom has played a crucial role in convincing allies like the United States to dramatically increase military aid ahead of a summertime counteroffensive against Russia.
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Russia’s 'invincible' hypersonic missiles prove anything but, as Ukraine utilizes U.S. Patriot defenses
The "Kinzhal" was meant to be the Russian “wonder weapon,” but it turned out to be another example of President Vladimir Putin’s military over-promising and under-delivering — particularly after Ukraine received U.S.-manufactured Patriot PAC-2 and PAC-3 air defense systems in April.
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Pro-Ukrainian Russian partisans advance into Russia’s Belgorod region in surprise raid
Russia may have taken the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut Sunday, but forces aligned with Ukraine apparently took a tiny part of Russia on Monday.
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Exclusive: U.S. could train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16s in 4 months
Yahoo News has exclusively obtained an internal U.S. Air Force assessment that concludes it would take only four months to train Ukrainian pilots to operate American-made F-16 fighter jets, a far shorter time frame than what has been repeatedly cited by Pentagon officials.
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Ukraine intercepts all incoming Russian missiles in latest barrage against Kyiv
A massive barrage rocked Kyiv early Tuesday morning, but it was all intercepted by Ukrainian air defense systems, according to the Ukrainian government.
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The U.K. sent Ukraine powerful Storm Shadow long-range missiles
The United Kingdom is in the process of delivering Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine, the British government confirmed Thursday.
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'We will keep killing Russians,' Ukraine's military intelligence chief vows
Maj. Gen. Kyrlo Budanov believes that Russia’s supply of missiles are running low, almost to the point of exhaustion. “They are trying to accumulate certain stocks and have them ready in order to try to disrupt our offensive, but the truth is that they have taken their stocks almost to zero.”
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Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov: 'We are already a de facto member of NATO'
A lawyer by training, Ukraine's defense minister litigates on behalf of a client of 44 million people, traveling the world petitioning, persuading and beseeching a coalition of 54 very different countries to provide weapons, ammunition and nonlethal aid his military badly needs.
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Exclusive: Inside Russia's environmental influence operation targeting the Baltic Sea
Two Moscow-based research institutes produced a detailed Russian action plan focusing on the environment for the Baltic region earlier this year and presented it to President Vladimir Putin’s executive office. Yahoo News has obtained a copy of the plan.
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Exclusive: Putin's plans to keep the Baltics in check
Yahoo News has obtained confidential strategy documents drawn up by the Kremlin that reveal Russia’s ambitious plans to exert its influence in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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Russian mercenaries detail killing men, women and children in Ukraine
Details of brutal war crimes committed by the Wagner Group in Ukraine have been published by Gulagu.net, a Russian human rights organization.
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Pentagon leak raises troubling questions, but is unlikely to permanently alter U.S. relations with allies, experts say
Former spies say the U.S. can muddle through the latest Pentagon breach of intelligence documents, which, at least so far, pales in comparison to prior leaks.
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U.S. intelligence leak sheds light on Ukrainian weapons shortages
The Ukrainian government’s reluctance to share some of its most sensitive information about its war plans with the United States now appears well-justified in light of a last week’s leak of classified U.S. intelligence. An unnamed adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN yesterday that Kyiv had already altered a number of battle plans in response to the intelligence breach, which has been called the worst since Edward Snowden’s disclosures about American surveillance programs in 2013.
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Tranche of purported U.S. and allied military secrets leaked online in possible major intelligence breach
A tranche of what appears to be classified U.S. intelligence material was posted anonymously on the social media platform Discord over the last three months in the latest leak of highly guarded national secrets.
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Pro-Russian propagandist killed in blast in St. Petersburg
Vladlen Tatarsky, an infamous pro-Russian combatant turned propagandist, was killed in an explosion in a St. Petersburg cafe that injured at least 25 others, according to the Russian government.
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'This is like a movie': Ukraine's secret plan to convince 3 Russian pilots to defect with their planes
Last summer, a group of Ukrainian volunteers, working closely with their country’s intelligence service, apparently came close to persuading three Russian aviators who were in the midst of bombing Ukraine to defect with their warplanes in exchange for $1 million a piece.