For a man who once cast himself as the leader of a resurgent Eurasian power, Vladimir Putin has spent the summer of 2026 doing something no Kremlin strongman wants to...
BUCHAREST — For months, the Kremlin operated under a dangerous assumption: that Russian drones could slice through NATO airspace with impunity, buzzing border hamlets and terrorizing civilians while the Western...
KYIV — In the frozen, artillery-scarred trenches of eastern Ukraine, where the smoke of modern high-explosive ordnance rarely clears, an unexpected geopolitical earthquake is taking shape. While conventional wisdom long...
STRAIT OF HORMUZ — At precisely 6:26 p.m. local time on the sun-baked southern coast of Qeshm Island, an Iranian missile crew finished locking in their firing coordinates. Below them,...
MOSCOW — The illusion of a distant, bloodless conflict came to a shattering end across the Russian capital on the morning of August 16th, 2026. In what officials and independent...
MOSCOW — Along the fertile black-soil plains of southern Russia, from the rolling expanses of Rostov down to Krasnodar and Stavropol, a silent, historic collapse is unfolding. Millions of Russian...
TALLINN, Estonia — For months, the skies over the Baltic Sea have served as a silent laboratory for Vladimir Putin’s mounting desperation. Pushed back on the muddy fields of eastern...
KYIV — For months, Russian military planners laid out grandiose designs for a sweeping spring campaign, banking on their time-tested formula of overwhelming weight, massed armor, and relentless attrition. They...
KYIV — For the past six months, Russian commanders told Vladimir Putin what he wanted to hear: that his armies were steadily advancing, grinding down Ukrainian defenses, and pressing relentlessly...
MOSCOW — For years, the massive, imposing wall that underpins Vladimir Putin’s regime has withstood economic sanctions, battlefield setbacks, and relentless geopolitical pressure from the West. Yet, a seismic shift...