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,...
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...
Stephen Silver reports on Ukraine's twin drone strikes on a Wildberries logistics hub and one of Russia's largest oil refineries, the reported destruction of...
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...