Across the sprawling breadth of the Russian Federation, from the affluent commuter suburbs of Moscow to the harsh frontier towns of Siberia and the Far East, the defining image of...
MOSCOW — For more than two years, the Kremlin worked meticulously to cultivate an aura of tranquil detachment within its capital. While Ukrainian cities endured nightly barrages of cruise missiles...
In the grinding, unforgiving theater of the Donbas, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s imperial vision of “Novorossiya” has long dictated the brutal tempo of the war. For years, the Kremlin has...
Vladimir Putin has long operated under a foundational assumption about the geography of his empire: the sheer, unfathomable vastness of the Russian landmass is an impenetrable shield. For centuries, the...
KYIV — The highways leading out of the Crimean Peninsula are no longer thoroughfares; they are parking lots of panic. For miles, bumper-to-bumper traffic crawls eastward, a desperate convoy of...
For months, the Russian war machine ground its way toward the small, unassuming city of Lyman, moving meter by bloody meter through the dense, swampy woodlands of the northern Donbas....
MOSCOW — For more than four years, the war declared by the Kremlin as a swift three-day operation has been experienced by most urban Russians through state-filtered television broadcasts, sanitized...
Russia’s sprawling e-commerce logistics network is burning at a pace that has become difficult for Moscow to hide. Over the past two days alone, two more Wildberries warehouses inside Russia...
For much of the war, ordinary Russians have been able to hold the conflict at arm’s length. Casualty reports from Ukraine, however severe, rarely disrupted daily life in Moscow or...
Look closely at a map of occupied Crimea and one detail becomes hard to ignore: it is, in effect, a near-island, tethered to the rest of Russian-controlled territory by only...