Russia-Ukraine war
News and analysis on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Europe’s first major war in decades.
Reports of squabbles over the counteroffensive are a reminder that Ukraine and the US aren’t sure what comes after this operation — and if they’ll want the same thing.
Ukraine is trying to bring the costs of its war home to Russia.
Russia quit a deal made to avert a global food crisis and has now launched strikes against the key port city of Odesa.
NATO got its unity moment, but it put off the big questions for Ukraine.
Biden’s big Europe trip could have major implications for Ukraine.
Why cluster bombs are different from other US weapons sent to Ukraine.
Wagner’s businesses in Africa isolate and create dependent economies, not funding for private armies.
What happens to all those fighters? What can Ukraine do to exploit Russian weaknesses?
A Russian journalist on how the country sees the surprise mutiny.
Putin is still very much in power, but Wagner’s uprising showed the cracks in the regime.
Belarus’s first and only president has a complicated alliance with Putin.
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is supposedly headed to Belarus, but Putin’s troubles aren’t over.
The leader of the Wagner Group says his troops will not enter Moscow, but this challenge to Putin’s regime may not end here.
Cool it with the predictions, for one.
The massive dam destruction in Ukraine, explained.
And what it might take.
Attacks inside Russia could shift public opinion on Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Russia says it has control of the city of Bakhmut. Now what?
President Zelenskyy visited the G7 and Arab League summits to make Ukraine’s case.
A year of bombs in the borderland.
Four big questions about the operation the world is waiting for.
What you need to know about those top-secret files that got posted on Discord.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich’s arrest in Russia, explained.
The debate around which weapons to send to Ukraine, explained.
And how the US influences which weapons Ukraine gets and which ones it doesn’t.
China wants to use Russia to improve its image as a diplomatic leader.
It alleges he is responsible for the unlawful transfer of Ukrainian children to Russian territory.
The US released video footage of the encounter.
If Moscow takes Bakhmut, it may be a hollow victory.
France, Germany, and the UK proposed a new defense plan — that might be a subtle bid for peace negotiations.
Vladimir Putin is suspending New START amid Ukraine war tensions.
A year into the conflict, what’s next?
The US never had an exit strategy for Iraq and Afghanistan. Does it have one for Ukraine?
Biden in Warsaw, Putin in Moscow.
Antony Blinken and Wang Yi’s conversation didn’t cool friction over Taiwan and Russia.
Putin’s new offensive is now underway. Can Ukraine withstand the Russian assault?
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President Erdoğan is blocking the quick membership addition of Sweden and Finland to the alliance.
As the US announces it will procure tanks for Ukraine, Kyiv and Moscow are fighting a battle of attrition in Bakhmut — and preparing for what’s next.