Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology.

The number of tanks in use by the Ukrainian military could be catching up to Russia's active-tank count ... thanks to years of Soviet-era production and more modern updates to the vehicles ...

Vladimir Putin’s annual Victory Day parade in Moscow meant to showcase Russia ... War II-era tank that was seen rolling forlornly through Red Square. The event celebrating Soviet Union ...

For Russia, its more unusual adaptations to the ubiquitous drone threat mean potentially sacrificing one of the limited advantages of the Soviet-style tank design. But in the Ukraine war ...

with just one tank taking part in the procession—an old Soviet T-34—amid reports that Russia has a shortage of tanks and tank crews. A Russian Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launcher ...

As tensions rise, Ukraine’s tank fleet, largely based on aging T-64 models, faces off against Russia’s more modernized T-72B3 and T-80BVM tanks. Russia’s superior firepower, better mobility ...

Russia brought tank warfare to Ukraine, but it didn't do so with modern gear. Most of the tanks the Ukrainians destroyed were Soviet-era T-80 battle tanks, as more than 1,000 were lost.

Russia didn’t exactly muster an imposing tank battalion for its annual Victory Day celebration, which commemorates the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. With Russia’s war in Ukraine ...

T-62M tank. The bad news from Ukraine’s standpoint is that Russia has thousands of retired Soviet tanks in storage, primarily T-54/55s and T-62s. However, the poor condition of many such tanks ...

In the 20 months of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine ... which fights around Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine and operates mostly Soviet-vintage equipment including T-64 tanks and BMP fighting ...

This tank served as Soviet Russia's primary tank in the immediate post-war period and is the most-produced tank in history. The T-54 was one of the first post-war Soviet tank designs, alongside ...