When Russia launched its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, Ukraine cut diplomatic relations with Moscow, formally ...

An online bazaar of freelance headhunters finds new recruits to fight Ukraine, emboldening Vladimir Putin at the negotiating ...

When Russia invaded Ukraine in the spring of 2022, President Vladimir Putin incorrectly assumed it would be a swift takeover. In fact, three years on, negotiators from both countries are tentatively ...

Key Points and Summary - Russian drones crossing into Poland and MiG-31s violating Estonian airspace revived the core question: how does a Russia vs. NATO war actually begin? -This analysis argues ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s embrace of Russia would seem to heighten a threat that has raised alarms in Western capitals for the past year: the alignment of a formidable set of adversaries, ...

The story of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been one of upset expectations and wild swings in performance. At the start of the war, most of NATO saw Russia as an unstoppable behemoth, poised to ...

Ukraine is marking its independence day. The country's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, gave a speech today, reminding his fellow Ukrainians that they were fighting for freedom. But there's little to ...

TOPSHOT - Smoke rises from an oil refinery after an attack outside the city of Lysychans'k in the eastern Ukranian region of Donbas, on May 22, 2022, on the 88th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine ...

The U.S. and other western countries have issued sanctions on Russian oil exports since 2022. The Planet Money team explains how the country's shadow fleet of aging oil tankers evades policing. We're ...

Estonia's latest accusations that Russia is conducting provocations near the Baltic state shows how much the NATO member is in the crosshairs of Moscow’s expansionist aspirations, political scientist ...

Ben Horne has received funding from the Office of Naval Research through the Minerva Research Initiative (Grant: N000142012618). Catherine Luther has received funding from the Office of Naval Research ...