Sean Spoonts

A US volunteer group that sends medical supplies and screens Americans wishing to serve in Ukraine in some capacity has been recently named in the press as placing “mercenaries” in combat jobs in the Ukraine armed forces. They reached out to SOFREP wanting to correct the record.

Information we have from sources with Ukraine’s military shows the Russian army continues to bleed men, tanks, APCs, aircraft, artillery, and even ships and patrol boats to attacks by Ukrainian forces. On Saturday, we have these figures of Russian losses from just the Donbas and Luhansk regions: 19 tanks, 20 armored combat vehicles, 4 special […]

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Ukraine is claiming that a Russian Navy frigate has been struck by a Neptune cruiser missile of the type that hit the cruiser Moskva last month off the Crimean coast. Unlike the aged Moskva, the Admiral Makarov is the latest design of Russian warship and has only been in service for a few years.

A New York Times piece claims intel sources revealed that US intelligence was used to kill a number of Russian Generals in Ukraine, only to see the National Security Council walk it back almost instantly. You will be surprised at the reason and escalation that we are inviting by doing this.

There is a way Russia could introduce nuclear weapons into the Ukraine conflict and use NATO as justification for it.

The EU was a major arms supplier to Russia prior to the latest invasion of Ukraine by Russia and their miserly assistance to Ukraine so far suggests they expect to profitably rearm Russia again after this is all over with, no matter who wins.

A video has been released by the Russian Defence Ministry purporting to show the crew of the cruiser Moskva and her Captain believed to have been killed when the ship was hit by one or more Ukrainian anti-ship cruise missiles. We are skeptical of this.

Russia accuses Ukraine of bombing Russian villages. They even go as far as explaining why Ukraine would do so, but is this a case of Russia projecting its own motives for bombing civilians onto Ukraine?

Russia has announced that the captain of the cruiser Moskva was killed. There is a conspicuous absence of any reassuring information from the Kremlin to the Russian public that the crew was saved. It is likely that as many as 450 Russian sailors were lost with the ship along with as yet unknown members of the staff of the Black Sea Fleet that may have been aboard as well.

Yesterday the Russian Guided Missile Cruiser Moskva was struck by one or two Neptune anti-ship missiles fired by Ukraine. Here is what we know and how we think it happened.

Ukraine is claiming they hit the Russian flagship of the Black Sea Fleet with two cruise missiles, US furnished Mi-17 helicopters going and then not going to Ukraine, A report from an American serving in Ukraine and Russian losses in perspective.