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The forecasts are anything but optimistic: The best Ukraine can hope for in 2024, many Western officials and analysts say, is to simply hold the line. Only a year ago, [...]

Byline: Yaroslav Trofimov Ukraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, was flying home on a Turkish Airlines plane from New York when Russia invaded. He had just been welcomed into the White [...]

2024 JUN 11 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Information Technology Newsweekly -- Investigators publish new report on big data. According to news originating from the University [...]

Byline: Washington Post Staff ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine - Soldiers in the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade waited for nightfall before piling - nervous but confident - into their U.S.-provided Bradley Fighting Vehicles. [...]

Byline: Robyn Dixon RIGA, Latvia - As Russian President Vladimir Putin flies to Beijing to meet his strongest, most crucial ally - Chinese President Xi Jinping - the leaders are [...]

Byline: John Bacon, USA TODAY A new defense minister, an encouraging visit from the U.S. secretary of state and another $1 billion in aid have fueled optimism in Ukraine this [...]

Ukraine's counteroffensive may be moving at a slower pace than Western leaders would like, but a new analysis by a British think-tank suggests that's because those same Western leaders moved [...]

World War II has been an ideological battlefield in today's war in Ukraine, and it is cropping up on the actual battlefield as well. Clambering over boulders, past old tires [...]

Byline: Missy Ryan, David Stern and Robyn Dixon Ukrainian forces are navigating giant minefields and mounting initial attacks on Russian positions along a sprawling front line, U.S. and Ukrainian officials [...]

Byline: Alex Horton and Samuel Granados Armed with Western weapons and trained in NATO tactics, Ukrainian troops have begun a push into Russian-occupied territory in southeastern Ukraine. Since November, the [...]

The next phase of the Ukraine War, a new Russian offensive and a potential Ukrainian counteroffensive, seems all but inevitable for late winter or early spring. The logic of escalation [...]

Byline: Helen Sullivan Every week we wrap up the must-reads from our coverage of the Ukraine war, from news and features to analysis and opinion. The mistakes that cost Russia [...]

American officials believe that with Russia bolstering defenses and learning lessons, Ukraine will find it more challenging to retake land. WASHINGTON -- As the war in Ukraine soon enters its [...]

Byline: Greg Miller, Mary Ilyushina, Catherine Belton, Isabelle Khurshudyan and Paul Sonne HELSINKI - Nuclear-armed submarines slip in and out of the frigid waters along the coast of Russia's Kola [...]

Byline: Jonathan S. Jones Eight months into its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is running out of soldiers, equipment and supplies. These shortages may soon leave Russia in an untenable military [...]

Byline: Ishaan Tharoor This year, Ukraine's Independence Day falls on the same day that marks six months since Russia's Feb. 24 invasion. The two events feel inextricably, indelibly linked: Ukrainians [...]

Byline: ALEXANDER HILL Professor of military history at the University of Calgary As the war in Ukraine drags on, both Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky say it's going [...]

Byline: Reis Thebault, Sammy Westfall and Robyn Dixon A drone strike on a key Russian Navy outpost in the Crimean city of Sevastopol on Sunday sent a defiant message as [...]

Byline: Isabelle Khurshudyan, Robyn Dixon and Serhiy Morgunov KHERSON REGION, Ukraine - The long table was set with sliced vegetables, bottles of Coca-Cola and juice, boiled lamb hearts, and kebabs [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe and Karoun Demirjian The shifting nature of the war in Ukraine has prompted a split among analysts and U.S. lawmakers, with some questioning whether American officials have [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe and Karoun Demirjian WASHINGTON - The shifting nature of the war in Ukraine has prompted a split among analysts and U.S. lawmakers, with some questioning whether American [...]

Byline: Vincent Ni China affairs correspondent More than 100 days into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, China's strategic assessment of the conflict is becoming clearer: it does not wish to be [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe, Ellen Nakashima and Alex Horton WASHINGTON -- The Russian military, mired in a war with no end in sight, is attempting to resuscitate its sputtering offensive in [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe, Ellen Nakashima and Alex Horton WASHINGTON - The Russian military, mired in a war with no end in sight, is attempting to resuscitate its sputtering offensive in [...]

Byline: Daniel W. Drezner It is worth remembering that in the year before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden sought a 'stable' relationship with Russia and its leader, Vladimir [...]

Russia wanted to build a leaner, more flexible fighting force and eliminate waste, bureaucracy and corruption. But entrenched, Soviet-era practices endure. Army vehicles were so decrepit that repair crews were [...]

Byline: Jon Henley Europe correspondent Finland and Sweden could apply for membership of the 30-nation Nato alliance within days, ending decades of military non-alignment in a historic shift triggered by [...]

Byline: Daniel W. Drezner In thinking about the evolution of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Lawrence Freedman's Substack has been invaluable. His latest assessment is blunt about Russia's failures on the [...]

Byline: Adam Taylor When it comes to defining battles of the invasion of Ukraine so far, few have captured the imagination like the siege of Mariupol. For months, hundreds of [...]

The Russian holiday celebrating the Soviet triumph over Nazi Germany is viewed by Ukraine and NATO as a stage for the Russian president to proclaim a turn in the war. [...]

Western officials are debating the Kremlin's calculations in not trying harder to halt weapons shipments in Ukraine. Analysts wonder whether a bigger mobilization by Moscow is on the horizon. Russia's [...]

Byline: Timothy Snyder In his 1926 poem 'Debt to Ukraine,' Vladimir Mayakovsky wrote: 'It's hard to crush people into one. Don't raise yourself so high.' After all, the poet continued: [...]

Byline: Ishaan Tharoor Five weeks ago, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivered a fateful speech in reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. His government's decision to, among other things, inject [...]

Byline: Paul Sonne, Shane Harris, Michael Birnbaum and Souad Mekhennet Nearly every day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, clad in dark green, records a video address to the Ukrainian people, sometimes [...]