A group of sociologists found that few Russians were steadfast supporters of the war. Most had something more complicated to say.

Russia has endured over 700,000 casualties since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022—more than in all of Moscow’s conflicts since World War II combined, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Jan.

Ukraine sees tactical advances in Russia’s Kursk, while Moscow claims to have secured front line town in Donbas.

Tensions with Russia continue to escalate as the Ukrainian president shifts tactics and asks allies for help on the ground.

Russia has been battling Ukraine in Kursk since August 2024, when Kyiv launched a surprise cross-border incursion into Russian soil. Ukraine still controls roughly half of the territory it seized in the late summer, although Moscow has been battling to peel back Kyiv's grip across the border.

Moscow's troops are continuing to conduct assaults on positions in Ukraine's south and east. The map below shows the wider situation on the frontline, where Ukraine's forces are trying to stop key ...

"The whole [Trump] team is obsessed with strength and looking strong, so they’re recalibrating the Ukraine approach," one European official told the Financial Times.

Membership in NATO is the only credible long-term security guarantee Ukraine can receive against future Russian aggression, Finland's top diplomat said on Wednesday.

The United States warned on Wednesday that North Korea is benefiting from its troops fighting alongside Russia against Ukraine, gaining experience that makes Pyongyang "more capable of waging war against its neighbors.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will drive a hard bargain with President-elect Donald Trump on Ukraine, because he is confident that Russian military can outlast Ukraine’s and that Team Trump does not have leverage.

Russia said on Monday its forces had made important gains in eastern Ukraine while continuing to fend off a new Ukrainian offensive inside the Kursk region of western Russia, where a second day of fierce fighting was under way.