Ukraine

From the shattered bridges outside Kyiv to the hollow eyes of Russian officers who once confessed that their whole lives had been a lie, I have watched the same rotten empire of untruth stagger forward, and I am convinced that Ukraine’s refusal to bow will help bring it crashing down.

Guard joins D.C. patrols, Zelenskyy’s Chief of Staff resigns, Israel raid kills 13. Here’s what’s making headlines this Friday evening.

Trump tightens immigration, expands drug ops, and crises unfold from Ukraine to Hong Kong. Here’s your Friday Morning Brief, November 28, 2025.

Forged under fire by engineers who refused to wait for permission, Ukraine’s FP-5 Flamingo shows how a nation can build its own long-reach answer to Russian aggression—and hit harder than anyone expected.

Watching a real estate developer freelance foreign policy with a Kremlin insider felt less like statecraft and more like witnessing a slow-motion warning flare for anyone who still expects competence in American diplomacy.

Ukraine is working from a rewritten American peace blueprint that trims the harshest demands from the original plan, but whether this marks the start of a real endgame or another turn in a grinding war will be decided in the fine print and on the battlefield.

I am not interested in abstract “peace plans” drafted in Miami hotel suites; I am interested in whether the people I fought beside in Ukraine are being asked to trade their homes, language, and dead for the illusion of stability.

The Legion was never built to last; it was a stopgap of anger, idealism, and broken men thrown together under fire, and its dissolution only makes official what the front line knew years ago.

On a weekend when Israel took out Hezbollah’s military brain in Beirut, Trump hammered Kyiv as “ungrateful” while peace negotiators in Geneva pushed a bruising plan on Ukraine, and HMS Severn slid up alongside Russian warships in the English Channel, you could feel the whole security picture from the Levant to the North Atlantic tightening like a ratchet. It’s Sunday November 23rd, 2025. Here is your SOFREP Evening Brief.

The so-called Trump peace plan is not a roadmap to stability but an insult to Ukrainians and Europeans alike, a political stunt that hands Putin a strategic win while sidelining real diplomacy in favor of photo-op victory laps.

In a week that saw Marjorie Taylor Greene break with Trump without losing her home turf, diplomats in Geneva fight to keep Ukraine from bending past the breaking point, and teachers in Bella Coola stand between children and a charging grizzly, the through line was simple: pressure reveals who still shows up when it counts. It’s Sunday, November 23rd 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief

Estonia’s Frankenberg Technologies is betting that its AI guided, “good enough” Mark 1 mini missile, built cheap and in huge numbers, is the practical way to swat Russian drones out of NATO skies without going bankrupt.