Clear, careful reporting and analysis on Ukraine, Russia, NATO, Baltic security and the military and political developments shaping Europe.
Used EV purchases climbed sharply during the first half of 2026, but Russia’s climate and limited charging infrastructure could test ageing batteries. Quite and interesting situation is developing…
Fires broke out at industrial sites in Ryazan, where six people sought medical help and a major warehouse…
Quite a situation is developing with pro-war Kremlin channels. A Russian blogger with over 300,000 followers has publicly…
Ukrainian forces say the three-week campaign has disrupted shipping through the Kerch Strait and targeted Russia’s sanctions-evasion network.…
Ukraine’s General Staff said Saturday its forces had hit an early-warning radar station in occupied Crimea and a…
Ukraine’s Naval Forces have done something no unit has ever done before in NATO’s history. According to a…
Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi stated that the Armed Forces recently achieved a noticeable advantage over Russian troops in…
NATO is reinforcing its eastern flank as Lithuania hosts “Freedom Shield I,” a major military exercise involving nearly…
Russia is taking the unusual step of exploring gasoline imports from abroad in an effort to calm mounting…
Russian forces launched a massive aerial offensive across Ukraine today, once again targeting civilian infrastructure and urban centers.…
At VanguardEast, I aim to publish articles that are as informative, accurate, and straightforward as possible, giving people the opportunity to learn something new every day. My goal is to build an independent space where information on important issues is accessible, transparent, and easy to understand.
VanguardEast is an independent publication based in Lithuania, on NATO’s eastern frontier. I cover Russia’s war against Ukraine, Baltic security, NATO, the military, political and cultural developments shaping the world.
I have been documenting the war in Ukraine for more than four years in total since 2022. My aim is to make complex battlefield and political developments understandable while keeping the reporting careful, factual, transparent and informative in general.
“Totalitarianism demands, in fact, the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth.”George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four
