As of early October 2025, Ukrainian drone strikes were reported to have forced nearly 40% of Russia's oil refining capacity offline, with at least 70% of shutdowns directly linked to these strikes, ...

Amid U.S. pressure to accept a 28-point peace plan 2 that would require ceding territory, reducing Ukraine’s military, and abandoning NATO ambitions, Zelenskyy declared Ukraine is facing “one of the ...

The leaked 28-point peace proposal—reportedly drafted by U.S. and Russian negotiators before being presented to Kyiv—triggered an immediate wave of sharply divergent reactions from top officials ...

“A nuclear meltdown at Zaporizhzhia would imperil the entire region,” Najmedin Meshkati, Financial Times, 11.17.25. Meshkati warns that “Russia’s nuclear brinkmanship—a reckless gamble that began with ...

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Despite his mastery of reductionist flattery and "unlimited devotion" to Putin, the speaker of the State Duma likely isn't a member of the Russian president's inner-most circle. Still, he may have a ...

Humanitarian impact of the Ukraine conflict: “Russia Tried to Cut Ukraine’s Lights. Now It’s Aiming for the Heat,” Constant Méheut and Olha Konovalova, New York Times, 11.15.25. Méheut and Konovalova ...

While the conflict in eastern Ukraine initially served as a magnet for international fighters of various stripes, the situation began to change around the end of 2014. The initial chaos of the war in ...

How has the transformation of the Russian economy and society in response to the challenges posed by the invasion of Ukraine affected popular support for the war? Scholars puzzled by the consistent ...

Russia: +27,124 square miles. 12% of Ukraine. (Area roughly equivalent to the U.S. states of Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire combined). 1 Total area of all Ukrainian territory Russia ...

Recent developments in Ukraine suggest Russian military commanders have exhausted their ability to effectively respond to a Ukrainian escalation in fighting, which is expected any day. An influx of ...

The election of U.S. President Donald Trump changed U.S. policy toward Ukraine from “as long as it takes” to seeking a negotiated peace settlement. These negotiations will be driven by the battlefield ...