The geopolitical architecture of the twenty-first century is being redrawn not in the sun-drenched corridors of Geneva or the imposing chambers of the United Nations, but in the desolate, freezing...
MOSCOW AND KYIV — For more than three years, Vladimir Putin has projected an image of absolute control over the Russian Federation, framing his invasion of Ukraine as an existential...
KYIV — On the black, choppy waters of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, a multi-week maritime chokehold has reached a staggering milestone. According to operational summaries released...
KYIV — Deep inside the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula, the grid went dark. In late July, a wave of precise, devastating drone strikes swept across the territory, reducing power substations to...
WASHINGTON — Deep beneath the arid, rugged mountain ranges of the Iranian plateau, something massive is shifting. For decades, the Islamic Republic has burrowed into the earth, carving out an...
MOSCOW AND KURSK — For four years, the official line broadcast across Russian state television was painted in unyielding strokes of triumphalism. Viewers were greeted by glowing screens, triumphant maps,...
WASHINGTON AND RIYADH — The Middle East stood on a knife-edge this week as a dramatic sequence of military escalations shattered a fragile regional quiet, drawing a firm line in...
DONETSK OBLAST, UKRAINE — For the Russian military command, the math of modern warfare has curdled into a nightmare of catastrophic proportions. For years, the Kremlin watched in quiet panic...
BELGOROD, RUSSIA — For more than four years, the war in Ukraine was a distant abstraction for millions of Russians living far from the trenches—a nightly broadcast of grainy combat...
MOSCOW — For more than two years, the conventional narrative of the conflict in Ukraine has been written in the traditional language of artillery duels, trench warfare, and armored columns...