This year's annual military exercises for reservists are taking place earlier than usual in Russia, prompting debate on ...

For several months now, the Russian forces have been pushing hard in the Donbas region, in southeastern Ukraine. There has already been copious analysis of the piecemeal approach that the Russian ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said during his Friday evening address: "New assaults took place in the areas of the ...

A new school textbook that likens Russia's war in Ukraine to the Soviet struggle against the Nazis and says Russia was ...

This monthly report from Hudson’s Zineb Riboua examines Russia’s growing influence in the Middle East and Africa. Putin Whistles Past the Graveyard in Syria ...

Finland, which shares the European Union's longest border with Russia, joined the Western military alliance NATO in 2023 and drew its Nordic neighbour Sweden to follow in March 2024, both in ...

Users on Russian social networks have been discussing why the military exercises are being scheduled so early this year. In 2024, Putin ordered them in March, and in 2023 they were held in May.

For their part, Ukraine and its Western allies say Russia is waging a brutal and unprovoked war, merely to gain territory. The three-volume "Military History of Russia" was edited by Vladimir ...