In mid-June 2025, a rumor spread on social media claiming that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) shared a Flag Day post on X featuring two Russian flags. Flag Day, celebrated annually on June 14, ...

Footage from the frontline in southeastern Ukraine appears to show attacking Russian military vehicles displaying the United States' flag, just days after Donald Trump's meeting with Vladimir Putin.

To develop our findings, we put together a database of Russian Navy flag officers who were active between 2005 and 2016. For this part of the analysis, we examined the career trajectories of 199 ...