Ukraine War
When Putin invaded in 2022, his aims were sweeping: seize Kyiv, "demilitarize" and "denazify" Ukraine, absorb the Donbas. Years on, those goals have quietly...
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Ukraine War
Ukraine's commander-in-chief says Russia may be preparing a new offensive from its Bryansk region into Chernihiv — but not to capture the capital this...
Ukraine War
At the start of the year, the war seemed to be tilting Putin's way: Washington was distracted by Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba, and Moscow...
Ukraine War
Ukraine's commander-in-chief says Putin has ordered his General Staff to draw up options for a new offensive — one launched from Belarus, aimed at...
Ukraine War
For four years Putin kept the war's economic pain away from ordinary Russians. That strategy has broken down. Fuel rationing has spread from the...
Ukraine War
The pressure on Putin is mounting on every front at once. Russian military bloggers now estimate a soldier reaching the worst stretches of the...
Ukraine War
The case that Putin is finished is getting louder: fuel lines, blackouts, Crimea in disarray, and even a once-loyal pro-war blogger now demanding answers...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 2014, Putin seized Crimea without firing a shot and was hailed as a strategic mastermind, his approval ratings soaring. Twelve years later, Ukraine...
Ukraine War
Crimea was the prize of Putin's empire — seized without a shot in 2014, the "unsinkable aircraft carrier" anchoring Russia's war in the south....