All Episodes

The Press Lounge with Serhii Plokhy: Why the West Has Failed Ukraine (And What Can Be Done About It) || Sister Podcast for the Brief

F-16 Deliveries, Su-34 Fighters Shot Down, and a Bounty of Bavovna || December 26th, 2023

EU Accession, Russia’s Economic Woes, Trump Blocks Ukraine Aid, and Why the War Isn't A Stalemate with Michael Kofman || December 16th, 2023

EXCLUSIVE: Major Sabotage, Storm Attacks Crimea, US Aid, Our Investigation into the FSB and Serhii Plokhy & Rory Finnin || December 1st, 2023

Massive Air Assaults on Kyiv, Getting Cranky in Krynky, and the Dutch Election

Severe Sanctions, Surviving Under Occupation, and Misbehaving Deputies

Choking Off Crimea, Allies Demand LGBTQ Rights, and Joining the EU (Finally) || November 12th, 2023

Zaluzhny’s Op-Ed, Another Sunken Battleship, and Zelenskyy Cursing On Air || November 6th, 2023

Opinion Polls, Pogroms, and Traitors to Ukraine || November 3, 2023

An 'Unholy Alliance' of russia, China and Iran, russia's Worst Losses in 2023, and Republican Politics || October 31st, 2023

Defending Avdiivka, Weathering Storm-Z, and a Visit from Hamas || October 29th, 2023

The Petition to Change Russia's Name, Children of War, and a New Frankenweapon || October 24, 2023

The Russian Attack on Nova Poshta, Running Out of Artillery, and an Escalation in Hybrid Warfare || October 23, 2023

Shocking Losses Near Donetsk, Indoctrinating Children, and Erasing a Red Line || October 20, 2023

What ATACMS Mean for Russia, and Did Ukraine Cross the Dnipro? || October 19, 2023

Storming the Slag Heap, ATACMS, and Genocide || October 17, 2023

The Return of Human Wave Tactics, the Polish Election, and Double Tap Attacks at Sea || October 16, 2023

Disrupted Logistics, Euromaidan, and Russia's Link to Terrorism in Israel || October 15, 2023

What's Up in Avdiivka, Collaborators, and Russia's Hopes for Mud Season || October 12, 2023

A Captured Commander, Preparing for Winter, and Trolls || October 10, 2023

A Serbian Brigade, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and Zelenskyy's Statement on Israel || October 9, 2023

Sea Mines, War Crimes, and a Russian Base in Georgia || October 6, 2023

A Brutal Russian Strike on Civilians in Kupiansk, Armenia's Bold Move, and Punisher Drones || October 5, 2023

The Meeting of Foreign Ministers, the Russian Navy, and a New Road to Donetsk || October 3, 2023

Defense Production, Spies, and the Little Radar That Couldn't || October 2, 2023

The Missing Dispatcher, Iridium, and Germany Stalls... Again || September 30, 2023

Railways, Virtual Reality, and Russia Tries to Rejoin the UN Human Rights Council || September 28, 2023

Advances Near Verbove, Drama With Poland, and Abrams || September 27, 2023

Breakthroughs in Zaporizhzhia, Crimea Gets Pummeled & ATACMS || September 25th, 2023

Russian Saboteurs and an Awful Lot of Bavovna || September 22, 2023

Week in Review Part 2 || September 20, 2023

Week-in-Review Part 1 || September 18, 2023

Cluster Munitions, the Pope, and Elon Musk || September 9, 2023

A $500,000 Helicopter, Russia vs. Sharks, and Armenia Has Second Thoughts || September 7, 2023

A Terrorist Attack in Kostiantynivka, Russia's Wonder Weapon, and Another Fake Election || September 6, 2023

Underground Schools, Russian Insurgents, and Reznikov's Replacement || September 5, 2023

SPECIAL: How russia's Invasions of Georgia Let It Think It Could Conquer Ukraine (and Updates from the Front) || September 5th, 2023

Russia's Drone-Induced Nightmare, and Some of Russia's Long-Range Capabilities || September 1, 2023

Helicopter Crashes, Corruption Crackdowns, and Prigozhin's Awkward Funeral || August 31, 2023

Accidental Explosions, Illegal Elections, and russia Revisiting 18th Century Weapons Technology || August 28th, 2023

Prigozhin's Demise, Ukraine's Day of Independence, and Fragile Defenses in Zaporizhzhia Oblast || August 24th, 2023

Air Superiority, Putin's Isolation, and The Baltic Way || August 22, 2023

Tens of Thousands of Civilians Forced to Take Up Arms, and Russia's Fight With the Moon || August 21, 2023

Rory Finnin on Russian Imperialism and Western Solidarity || August 20, 2023

Zelenskyy's Visits to the Front, Patriotic Puzzles, and Poisoned Journalists || August 17, 2023

Urozhaine, an Attack on a Swedish Facility, and SO MANY DRONES || August 16, 2023

'Hungarophobia', Wagner's Financial Struggles, and What's Really Going On With Germany's Taurus Missiles || August 14, 2023

'Bavovna' on the Bridge, Tens of Thousands of Missing Limbs, and the UN Finally Says Something || August 13, 2023

An Injured Soldier, F-16s, and Russia 'Repurposes' a 2,500 Year Old City || August 10, 2023

Assassination Attempt, and Brand New Textbooks for the Occupied Territories || August 9, 2023

Attacks on First Responders, North Korean Hackers, and Russia's Bridge Problem || August 8, 2023

Black Sea Drones, Corruption, and Russian Scrounging || August 7th, 2023

National Trauma, Wagner Being Wagner, and Piranha Domes || August 4, 2023

Encircling Bakhmut, HIMARS on the Beach, and VAMPIRES || August 3, 2023

Severed Supply Lines, Nazis, and Drones || August 2, 2023

Putin's PR Nightmare and Tragedy in Kryvyi Rih || August 1, 2023

Progozhin's Return, Torture at the ZNPP, and a Narrative Shift in the Russian Infospace || July 31, 2023

Bakhmut, and Putin's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day at the Russia-Africa Summit || July 28, 2023

Breakthroughs in Counteroffensive, Reactor 4, and the Truth About the Olenivka Massacre || July 26, 2023

Odesa, Crimea, and Russia Running Out of Friends and Artillery || July 24, 2023

More Explosions in Crimea, the Failure of the Grain Deal, and Igor Girkin's Big Mouth || July 21, 2023

Stolen Children, Empty Threats, and Russia's Last Few Good Men || July 20, 2023

Bakhmut, Assassination Attempts, and Bridge Pylon #145 || July 18, 2023

Poor Decisions, Putin's Catch-22, and Nuclear Threats || July 14, 2023

Ukraine Joining NATO and Other Russian Catastrophes || July 13th, 2023

NATO, the Counteroffensive, and Russian Meldowns || July 12th, 2023

Ukrainian Breakthroughs and Erdoğan's Sudden Left Turn || July 11th, 2023

Interview with Tork, Azov Soldier || Part 3

Interview with Tork, Azov Soldier || Part 2

Counteroffensive: Ukraine Fights Russian Lancet Drones, Receives Cluster Munitions || July 7th, 2023

Interview with Tork, Azov Soldier || Part 1

Bakhmut Offensive, Cholera, and Ukraine's Military Kit || July 5th, 2023

Independence Day, War Crimes, and Unilever || July 4th, 2023

Progress in the Counteroffensive and the Mystery of the Missing Mercenaries || July 3, 2023

What Does the Prigozhin Putsch Mean for Putin and Ukraine? || July 2, 2023

Prigozhin's Troll Farm and Yewleea's Favorite Vodka ||June 30, 2023

Ukraine's Future in NATO and Prigozhin's Coup Collaborators || June 29, 2023

Ukraine Gains in Counteroffensive and The Russia Coup d'Blyat || June 28, 2023

Harley Whitehead Interview - Part 2

Russian Collaborators, Water Problems, and More Gear For Ukraine || June 26, 2023

The Discount Coup D'état, Russian Style || June 25, 2023

Harley Whitehead Interview - Part 1

The Counteroffensive, Budanov's 9 Lives, and Prigozhin Gets Petty || June 21, 2023

Flood Water, Defense Spending, and an Obliterated Russian Battalion || June 20, 2023

Weekend War Updates, Putin's Fantasies, and IKEA || June 19, 2023

Brandon Mitchell Interview - Part 2

Brandon Mitchell Interview - Part 1

NATO, Russian Military Losses, and Azov || June 16, 2023

Air Strikes, Russian Lies, and F-16s || June 15, 2023

Dnipro, Shellings, and the Russian Aesthetic of Genocide || June 14, 2023

The Kakhovka Dam, Counteroffensive, and Oreos || June 13, 2023