SARATOV OBLAST, Russia — Under the glare of floodlights on the concrete apron of Engels-2 air base, several hundred miles inside sovereign Russian territory, one of the most formidable symbols...
BERLIN — For decades, the rail corridors and highway arteries carving through the flat plains of Central Europe served as Moscow’s vital umbilical cord to its heavily fortified Baltic exclave...
BELGOROD, Russia — The afternoon sky over Belgorod was torn apart not by the familiar buzzing of slow-moving propeller drones, but by the supersonic shriek of incoming artillery rockets. Within...
TAIPEI — For months, the waters surrounding Taiwan have resembled less an international maritime thoroughfare than a sprawling staging ground for an undeclared siege. Operating just beyond the horizon, a...
Inside Britain’s Defiant Gamble: Handing Ukraine the Keys to the Storm Shadow as Moscow’s Shadow War Reaches English Soil LONDON — For months, the warnings filtering out of Moscow carried...
HELSINKI — For decades, Russian military planners viewed the dense pine forests and frozen waterways stretching across northern Scandinavia as a predictable, manageable flank. The border was quiet, Sweden was...
KYIV — For more than two years of grueling warfare, the Kremlin’s ultimate defense was neither the fortified trenches of the Donbas nor the dense surface-to-air missile batteries ringing Moscow....
On the rugged cliffs of Cape Idokopas, overlooking the turquoise expanse of the Black Sea, the illusion of absolute imperial invulnerability recently dissolved into thick, acrid smoke. For years, the...
WASHINGTON — When a nondescript U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane touched down unannounced on the tarmac of Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport in late August, it carried what senior national security...
Behind the heavy double doors of the summit hall in Bishkek, the grand theater of Russian imperial resurgence collapsed into a tableau of unmistakable subservience. For four years, the Kremlin...