Howard Altman is a contributing writer for Coffee or Die Magazine. Altman is an award-winning editor and reporter who was previously the senior managing editor of Military Times and a military reporter for the Tampa Bay Times and the Tampa Tribune, where he covered USCENTCOM, USSOCOM, and SOF writ large among many other topics. He is also on the advisory board of Military Veterans in Journalism. Email him howiealtman2@protonmail.com
Update, March 31, 5:30 p.m.: This story has been updated to reflect the announcement by the International Atomic Energy Agency that Russian officials had returned control of the Chernobyl power plant to Ukrainian hands on Thursday, and that several ...
After a month of setbacks, Russian officials said Tuesday, March 29, that the true goal of the invasion of Ukraine is not to conquer Kyiv but instead “the liberation of Donbas,” the contested eastern region of the country. Does that claim match up ...
Brig. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov is not surprised that Russia is making little headway in its all-out assault on his nation. “We understood how it would go,” Budanov told me Friday morning, via a translator, in a far-ranging interview with Coffee or Die ...
The man standing near what appears to be a captured Russian T-72 tank is ecstatic. “Our guys commandeered a Russian tank,” he says, as it rolls by. “Now it will be ours.” The man’s battle cry for revenge using a tank captured Friday in what ...
Ukrainian forces destroyed a large Russian landing ship Thursday, March 24, leaving the ship burning at its pier after a missile strike at the Ukrainian port of Berdyansk, about 50 miles southwest of the besieged city of Mariupol. A Ukrainian ...
David Shank served as commandant of the US Army’s Air Defense Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, before retiring as a colonel, but when he considers how Russian pilots now see the airspace over Ukraine, he thinks it's akin to how US troops ...
In Mariupol, doctors and patients were taken hostage by Russian soldiers, Ukrainian officials said. In the town of Rubizhne, Russian shelling destroyed three schools, a hospital, and an institution for visually impaired children. Around Kharkiv and ...
On the 20th day of Russia’s war on Ukraine, two top American generals reminded lawmakers that recent inroads made by Russia and China in Africa and the Middle East demonstrate that Europe isn’t the only continent where US influence is being ...
Now 19 days into its invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces made little progress over the weekend of Saturday, March 12, a senior US defense official told reporters Monday afternoon. Russian cruise missiles hit a training facility — once used by ...
