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Russia-Ukraine war

News and analysis on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Europe’s first major war in decades.

Congress’s $95 billion Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan aid package, explained

By Li Zhou

Ukraine is finally getting more US aid. It won’t win the war — but it can save them from defeat.

By Joshua Keating

What’s behind the latest right-wing revolt against Mike Johnson

By Li Zhou

A very bad year for press freedom

By Caroline Houck

There’s a shadow fleet sneaking Russian oil around the world. It’s an ecological disaster waiting to happen.

By Joshua Keating

The battle for blame over a deadly terror attack in Moscow

By Joshua Keating

Caught between Trump and Putin, are European countries ready to go nuclear?

By Joshua Keating

Are Ukraine’s defenses starting to crumble?

By Joshua Keating

Where does the fight for a free Russia go now?

By Ellen Ioanes

US officials are always talking about “deterring” Iran. What does that really mean?

By Joshua Keating

The moral and strategic case for arming Ukraine

By Zack Beauchamp

Why Ukraine’s new top general is known as the “butcher”

By Ellen Ioanes and Li Zhou

Welcome to the “neomedieval era”

By Joshua Keating

America is exporting more arms than ever. Here’s why.

By Nicole Narea

What happens in Ukraine if US aid disappears?

By Joshua Keating

Biden weighs a “shocking” revival of Trump’s immigration agenda

By Nicole Narea

There are now more land mines in Ukraine than almost anywhere else on the planet

By Jen Kirby

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A harrowing film exposes the brutality of Russia’s war in Ukraine

By Jen Kirby

Poland’s democracy is on the brink. Can these elections save it?

By Jen Kirby

The West’s united pro-Ukraine front is showing cracks

By Jen Kirby

Congress avoided a shutdown. What happens now?

By Ben Jacobs

40 years ago today, one man saved us from world-ending nuclear war

By Dylan Matthews

Governments once imagined a future without extreme poverty. What happened?

By Bryan Walsh

Why Volodymyr Zelenskyy had to go to Washington

By Jen Kirby

What a defense ministry shake-up may say about Ukraine’s corruption problem

By Jen Kirby

What Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un’s meeting might bring

By Ellen Ioanes

Are the US and Ukraine at odds over the counteroffensive?

By Jen Kirby

What went wrong in Ukraine’s counteroffensive

By Jen Kirby

What’s up with all these drones hitting Moscow?

By Jen Kirby

How bad will things get now that Russia has quit its grain deal with Ukraine?

By Jen Kirby

What Ukraine did — and didn’t — get from the NATO summit

By Jen Kirby

Biden’s Eurotrip, briefly explained

By Li Zhou

The US’s controversial decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, explained

By Jen Kirby

Wagner’s real money never came from diamonds and gold

By Ellen Ioanes

What the Wagner rebellion might mean for Russia’s war in Ukraine

By Jen Kirby

Prigozhin said he was just being a patriot. Do Russians agree?

By Jonathan Guyer

What’s going on with Vladimir Putin after the mutiny?

By Jen Kirby

Aleksandr Lukashenko, the dictator who took credit for ending Wagner’s mutiny, explained

By Nicole Narea

Russia’s wild weekend and the Wagner group’s march to Moscow, explained

By Ellen Ioanes

Prigozhin’s coup attempt unleashes chaos on Russia

By Jen Kirby

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