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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in his famous "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat" inauguration speech, prepared his nation for the long and difficult fight ahead, one which would bring victory [...]

The Eurasian rimland is nigh-ablaze. The Middle East sits on the brink of large-scale war, which will not end absent a fundamental regional reorganization, and an enormous amount of human [...]

The order to move crackled over the radios at dawn on August 6th. Serhiy, a private in the 80th brigade, was among the first to emerge from the cover of [...]

On Monday morning, Vladimir Putin was briefed about Ukraine's audacious invasion of Russian territory. With his military chiefs in front of him, he announced that Kyiv had been doing the […]

Read more of our recent coverage of the https://www.economist.com/ukraine-crisis THE UKRAINE war has become almost static. Both sides have dug in; the front lines barely shifted in 2023. As The [...]

The ongoing war in Ukraine has become the world's first full-scale drone war, revealing future lessons on how to use and counter such weapons. ON DEC. 10 a group of [...]

NUCLEAR tensions have risen since the invasion of Ukraine, with Russia and other nuclear-armed powers reportedly updating disused weapon test sites in preparation for use once more. Now, Russian law-makers [...]

News Analysis Nuclear arms race Will countries resume nuclear bomb tests? As global tensions rise, there are signs Russia, the US and China want to reawaken weapons programmes, says Matthew [...]

Read more of our recent coverage of the https://www.economist.com/ukraine-crisis VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY does not want to think about a long war, let alone talk about the possibility to Ukrainians, many of [...]

FOR MILLENNIA, the frontiers of territories that occupy the plains between the Baltic and the Black Seas have been drawn by force. In the past century, during the five-year course [...]

Kharkiv It was a strange feeling to walk alone through eerie corridors in the basement of the Kharkiv Opera Theatre and suddenly hear a burst of music and applause. As [...]

'Happy New Year! The year of our victory!' said Volodymyr Zelensky on 1 January. After the liberation of the Kharkiv region and Kherson, Ukrainians entered the ninth year of the [...]

The United States faces a protracted conflict in Ukraine. There is almost no chance of this war ending soon, and it is already having ripple effects across Europe, the Middle [...]

You hear 'the Ukraine' less often these days--'the Ukraine' instead of 'Ukraine,' without the definite article. 'The Ukraine' implies a region of something broader; 'Ukraine' implies nationhood. Also, people are [...]

Read more of our recent coverage of the https://www.economist.com/ukraine-war A YEAR AGO, Vladimir Putin launched the first full-scale invasion of a sovereign European country since the second world war. Badly [...]

THE INVASION of https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2023/02/01/why-does-ukraine-want-western-jets-and-will-it-get-them is a graphic illustration of how the nature of https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/01/22/what-western-tanks-should-give-ukraine-in-the-next-round-of-the-war never changes. It is an aspect of the human condition that is as irrational, brutal, feral, [...]

I spent part of the long Independence Day weekend listening to an old recording of 'Woody's Children,' a folk-music program that premiered in 1969 and ran for several decades on [...]

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . On the night of July 28, 2016, as Hillary Clinton was [...]

In 1999 nina tannenwald, a political scientist at Brown University, wrote a paper analysing something she had observed among generals, politicians and strategists: the 'https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/06/02/a-new-nuclear-era '. This was not, she [...]

Quick thinking saved Yulia Rebenko from probable death. She ran from her kitchen to the bathroom as soon as she heard the first thuds. By the time the https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/05/02/artillery-is-playing-a-vital-role-in-ukraine reached [...]

Vladimir Putin uses warfare to make up for Russia's weaknesses. That is why he is so dangerous T HE MIGHT of the modern Russian army was supposed to show the [...]

In its ongoing attack on Ukraine, Russia does not target only Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. Invader and defender had a deal to allow Ukrainian grain to be exported. (Such deals [...]

Orders for Tesla models increased by 100% in some areas of the U.S. last week after oil prices skyrocketed in the country due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, DigiTimes' Jerry Yang [...]

This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit the https://www.economist.com/summer-reads for book lists, guest essays and more seasonal distractions. AT THE HEART of the Ukraine crisis lies a [...]

Humanity's greatest political achievement has been the decline of war. That is now in jeopardy AT THE HEART of the Ukraine crisis lies a fundamental question about the nature of [...]