In a week when a rare frontline truce let crews re-string Zaporizhzhia’s lifeline and Gaza’s fragile ceasefire yielded a tenth fallen hostage, Madagascar’s colonel-turned-president took the oath while the crowds that toppled Rajoelina wait to see if power, water, and promises finally show up. It’s Saturday, October 18th, 2025. This is your evening brief.
While we served beside Ukrainians under fire, Charlie Kirk framed disengagement as “peace” and treated their struggle like a talking point.
Treat the cache as a warning: the files hand the PLA both hardware and the playbook for an airborne crack at Taiwan, and when instructors, BMD-4M infantry fighting vehicles, and Dalnolyot long range parachute drops begin to surface, the smoke will have turned into a line of fire.
From Kyiv’s 12-hour drone-missile hammering to Trump’s threat to put troops on Portland streets and Lavrov’s UN vow of a “decisive response” after Zapad-2025, the board looks like a powder magazine where one spark could light three fuses at once. It’s Sunday, September 28th, 2025. Welcome to your SOFREP Morning Brief.
Trump’s sudden pledge that Ukraine can reclaim all occupied land is less a policy than a gamble—one that only matters if he backs it with steel, not slogans.
From Waltz’s bruising confirmation to the U.N., to a nation preparing for Charlie Kirk’s massive memorial, Polish jets scrambling against Russian strikes, and Qatar freezing mediation after an Israeli hit in Doha, the world feels like it’s moving from one crisis stage to the next without pause. Welcome to SOFREP’s Saturday Evening Brief for September 20, 2025.
From Capitol Hill’s grilling of FBI Director Kash Patel over Charlie Kirk’s assassination, to U.S. officers quietly observing Russia-Belarus war games, and Donald Trump’s reversal on TikTok, the week showed Washington balancing political firestorms, military brinkmanship, and digital-age dealmaking all at once. Here is your Tuesday evening SOFREP News Brief for September 16th, 2025.
The so-called “Española” brigade—born from Russia’s football hooligan underworld—has become both a neo-Nazi mercenary force and a combat testbed for Moscow’s newest assault rifles in Ukraine.
Erika Kirk vows to carry on her slain husband’s work as Tyler Robinson faces charges for the Utah killing, Ryan Routh flails in court over his alleged Trump assassination attempt, and President Trump pressures NATO to unite on sanctions against Russia and tariffs on China. It’s Saturday, September 13th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Evening Brief.
Russia will not break me, and I will carry the fight against its lies and brutality wherever I can.
Russia’s illegal militarization of Wrangel Island transforms a UNESCO wildlife sanctuary into a forward outpost of Arctic imperialism, threatening both the environment and U.S. national security.
Congress faces shutdown fight, Houthis hit tanker, Xi, Putin, Modi unite at SCO summit. Your SOFREP intel drop for Monday, September 1, 2025.
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