Reuben F. Johnson connects the threads of Ratcliffe's secret Moscow trip: Bloomberg's Kremlin sources describing a cornered Putin weighing nuclear options, Beijing's blunt ultimatum...
Kramatorsk designated an active-hostilities zone, residents numb to the drones overhead, and Putin's fifteenth self-imposed deadline to seize the region, a pledge his propagandists...
Shay Bottomley reports on Putin's decree authorizing state takeovers of drone-battered infrastructure, the Kremlin's insistence that it is not nationalization, Ukraine's dwindling Patriot stocks,...
Georgia Gilholy reports on Russia's deepening fuel emergency: a strike on its fourth-largest refinery, most of Perm's capacity offline, export bans stretching into next...
Jack Buckby examines the mystery of three classified Putin decrees signed the week of the CIA director's Moscow visit: an imprisoned American, an infrastructure-seizure...
One US-based think tank described the figures as historically exceptional, concluding: "No major power has suffered anywhere near these numbers of casualties or fatalities...
Stephen Silver reports on the new British prime minister's first foreign trip, a landmark deal letting Ukraine manufacture Storm Shadow cruise missiles on its...
Stephen Silver reports on mounting signs that Russia is straining to fill its ranks, from alleged press-ganging in one Russian town to Ukrainian intelligence...