With Moscow’s prospects faltering on the battlefield, the Kremlin is trying to nudge its closest ally off the sidelines .

The partners have stepped up joint naval training and patrols in a challenge to U.S. military dominance in the Pacific.

Ukraine's strikes on refineries are no longer only producing dramatic images — they have disrupted a significant portion of ...

Last month, Ukraine managed to liberate more land than Russia seized – the first time Moscow suffered a net loss of territory since Ukraine’s 2024 Kursk incursion.

After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a lot of Ukrainians who would normally have used Russian as their first language started instead to speak only in Ukrainian. It was part of a ...

Russia was in demographic decline long before the war in Ukraine. Now it’s in free fall. Since 2022, hundreds of thousands of Russians have died or suffered critical injuries in Ukraine. The result: ...

Russian opposition faces increased repression since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, with most prominent figures in exile. Aleksei Navalny died in a Russian prison under suspicious circumstances; his ...

The Russian ruble has staged a stunning rally in 2025, emerging as the world's top-performing currency so far this year. According to the Bank of America, it has been the best-performing currency ...