Across the brackish waters of the Gulf of Finland, roughly one hundred miles southwest of St. Petersburg, the Baltic night fractured into an incandescent wall of orange flame. The blast,...
Facing drone incursions, stray cruise missiles, and an erratic nuclear neighbor, Warsaw builds Europe’s most formidable frontline redoubt. GOŁDAP, Poland — Across the rolling pine forests, peat bogs, and quiet...
LEIPZIG, Germany — The Antonov An-124 Ruslan was resting under floodlights on the high-security northern apron of Leipzig/Halle Airport, its cavernous fuselage carrying the quiet weight of NATO’s eastern logistical...
MOSCOW — Across the Russian capital, the quiet reckoning does not begin with an emergency broadcast or sirens in the square. It begins in the subdued glow of smartphone screens...
ST. PETERSBURG — The blast that tore through the southern rim of Russia’s imperial capital at mid-morning on August 27 did not merely pulverize a late-model crossover vehicle; it shattered...
KYIV — For nearly twenty-eight uninterrupted hours, Ukrainian skies reverberated with the mechanical drone of incoming Shaheds and the concussive detonations of cruise missiles. The late-August barrage was not aimed...
MOSCOW — For more than two years, the marble-clad headquarters of the Central Bank of Russia on Neglinnaya Street stood as the Kremlin’s most formidable redoubt. While Russian infantry struggled...
KYIV — For more than four years, the unspoken social contract underpinning Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine was simple: ordinary Russians in the gleaming corridors of Moscow and St. Petersburg...
STEPANTSMINDA, Georgia — The ribbon of asphalt that snakes through the Darial Gorge is barely wide enough for two lanes of traffic, cut into the sheer rock faces of the...
When Russian President Vladimir V. Putin’s presidential airliner lifted off from Moscow and turned southeast toward Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital, the Kremlin’s choreographed message to the world was one of...