A paralyzing domestic energy crisis and an accelerating campaign of hybrid warfare have converged to put the Russian Federation under severe structural strain, exposing deep vulnerabilities within the Kremlin’s wartime...
When Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping met in Beijing on the eve of the 2022 Winter Olympics to declare a friendship with “no limits,” the Kremlin envisioned a historic realignment....
Behind the fortified perimeter of the Kremlin, inside the marble corridors where wartime policy is forged in secrecy, an explosive term has returned to official deliberations: mobilizatsiya. For nearly four...
LONDON — Deep within the industrial heartland of Russia, hundreds of miles from the muddy trenches of the Donbas, a new reality of modern warfare has taken shape in plumes...
CONSTANȚA, Romania — The low-profile silhouette skimmed across the choppy swells of the western Black Sea at dawn, carrying enough high explosives to tear through reinforced steel and ignite a...
High in the craggy Darial Gorge, where the Caucasus Mountains narrow into a jagged bottleneck between southern Russia and Georgia, the line of idling automobiles stretched as far as the...
At 2:36 on a sunlit afternoon over the war-torn skies of Luhansk, a Russian Sukhoi Su-35—the undisputed apex predator of the Kremlin’s tactical aviation fleet—swept its powerful radar across the...
CONSTANȚA, Romania — The pre-dawn silence over the western perimeter of the Black Sea was shattered on Thursday when a pair of Romanian Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons, operating under...
Flames Over Kolychevo The hum began long before midnight, vibrating across the pine forests and arterial ring roads south of Moscow. In the pre-dawn darkness of Saturday, August 15, 2026,...
KYIV, Ukraine — Deep in the industrial heartland of the Russian Urals, more than 930 miles from the nearest Ukrainian-held territory, the night sky above the city of Perm was...