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...
Reuben F. Johnson traces the rise and destruction of Nord Stream: Merkel's prize to Putin, the pipeline Central Europe called a new Molotov-Ribbentrop pact,...
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,...
Steve Balestrieri examines Ukraine's campaign against Wildberries, Russia's Amazon: the strikes' military rationale, EU sanctions on the retailer's banking arm, the vendor devastation rippling...
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...