On 3rd December, Matt Murphy (Senior Journalist – BBCNews and BBCWorld) wrote a piece that appeared on the BBC website regarding a ‘new’ building in Mariupol. Here’s the original piece (you can find it on the Internet Archive). The ‘Russian Army Base’ Matt is referring to is actually a 60-bed civilian hospital completed by the…
Month: December 2022
A Glaring Media Blindspot
On Monday 5th December, Ukraine launched a pair of adapted Soviet-era Tu-141 Strizh Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) at two airbases within Russia. One struck Dyagilevo Air Force Base in Ryazan Oblast, a training center for Russia’s strategic bomber force. Another struck Engels Air Force Base (Engels-2), a strategic nuclear bomber military airbase in Russia located…
Revisiting Military Predictions
In this post from March 4th 2022, I made a number of predictions regarding the military situation in Ukraine and how it might develop over the course of the conflict. Given recent (credible) reports (from a variety of sources) that estimate Ukrainian losses of 100,000 killed and 400,000 wounded, I thought I would revisit and…