Michael Weiss

Yahoo News has exclusively obtained an internal U.S. Air Force assessment that concludes it would take only four months to train Ukrainian pilots to operate American-made F-16 fighter jets, a far shorter time frame than what has been repeatedly cited by Pentagon officials.

The United Kingdom is in the process of delivering Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine, the British government confirmed Thursday.

'We will keep killing Russians,' Ukraine’s military intelligence chief vows

Yahoo News has obtained confidential strategy documents drawn up by the Kremlin that reveal Russia’s ambitious plans to exert its influence in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Last summer, a group of Ukrainian volunteers, working closely with their country’s intelligence service, apparently came close to persuading three Russian aviators who were in the midst of bombing Ukraine to defect with their warplanes in exchange for $1 million a piece.

Yahoo News has obtained an internal strategy document from Vladimir Putin's presidential administration that reveals Moscow's plans for Moldova, a small country vulnerably sandwiched between war-torn Ukraine and Romania, which is a member of the European Union and NATO.

When the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Ukrainians with pet carriers were a frequent sight among the stream of refugees heading west. Ukrainians carried their dogs, cats, rabbits and even fish for hundreds of miles as the scale of Russia’s attack on their country became clear. The mass exodus of pets was such that bordering nations waived their normally strict quarantine protocols to allow in the displaced with four legs.

Estonian national Danil Danilov was recorded on video confessing he was a spy for the Estonian Kapo, or Internal Security Service, involved in stealing Russian state secrets. His capture seemed to be a triumph for the Russians. The only problem: He wasn’t a spy.

The document, written for Putin’s Presidential Administration, envisages the total incorporation of Belarus into a “Union State” with Russia by 2030.

“The Russians have no idea,” Alexander Toots, the head of Estonian counterintelligence, tells me, laughing. “They have absolutely no idea he is here. You can be the one to tell them.” Toots was referring to the defection of a Russian spy to Estonia. But Artem Zinchenko isn’t just any spy. He was the first agent of Russia’s military intelligence arrested by Estonia, in 2017, then traded back to Moscow a year later for an Estonian citizen in Russian custody. Zinchenko has now sought asylum from the very NATO country that unmasked and imprisoned him for spying against it.

Kyiv has accused Moscow of targeting Ukraine’s power and electricity platforms with the goal of forcing its population to freeze this winter.

Mikk Marran, the head of Estonia’s foreign intelligence agency, is optimistic about the future because he feels vindicated about the past.

Dagestan in the Caucasus and Buryatia in the far east are the most restive as the Kremlin conscripts more soldiers for Ukraine.

A long-awaited Ukrainian move to retake the Russian-occupied swath of south of the country appears to have begun Monday, according to both Ukrainian and pro-Russian sources.

Just after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Elon Musk said Starlink — the satellite internet network manufactured by his company SpaceX — was active in Ukraine.

The three Russian soldiers, filmed from a weaponized Ukrainian drone from above, scramble into what looked like a worn-down sedan somewhere near the city of Kharkiv.

In an interview with Yahoo News, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas sends a message to Western governments on Russia’s Vladimir Putin.