Pokrovsk has been dubbed a "fortress" city, key for Ukraine's logistics and a long-time stronghold for Kyiv in the east.

Where are Putin’s forces making gains on the frontline as 2025 begins? - Russian forces are advancing in the east, slowly but ...

The North Korean POWs reportedly said they had been told by their superiors they were heading for a training exercise, only ...

The Kremlin has been discussing Donald Trump's claims that a meeting between him and Vladimir Putin is being set up.

Vladimir Putin was dealt a blow with Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk oblast but his forces ended the year with momentum in the Donbas.

This page is updated with the latest maps and charts showing military and humanitarian aspects of Russia’s war in Ukraine. A top Russian general died on Tuesday after a bomb went off at the ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country ... An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian soldiers standing in for the warriors ...

The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, the research organization where we work, has been conducting national public ...

In November 2023, Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi said the war had reached a stalemate after Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive. This assessment resulted in months of tensions between ...

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