As Russia’s new invasion of Ukraine nears its second week, Putin’s war of choice seems set to enter a uniquely dangerous phase—one that vastly increases the chances of global ramifications ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces launched a massive aerial assault on Ukraine early Thursday for the second time in ...

Despite suffering over 1 million casualties, pounding Ukrainian cities nightly with missiles and drones, and committing ...

In the spring of 2018, four years before his second invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered an unusual speech about the growing strength of the Russian military. “To those who ...

In Putin's Ukraine war, some experts worry about possible nuclear escalation Russian President Vladimir Putin gave orders to his nation's nuclear forces over the weekend, but their exact meaning ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has voiced frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the intensification of attacks.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will travel to Brussels to participate in the meeting of NATO defense ministers amid an escalation in the Russia-Ukraine war, the Defense Department announced ...

For many Russians, the war in Ukraine did not begin in February but September, when Putin announced his plans for mass mobilization of soldiers, starting with 300,000 new conscripts as a move to ...

Putin was most likely persuaded by the radical elements within his circle that, given the latest military losses, a drastic escalation was the only way to win the war. And for Putin, winning is ...

In the biggest escalation of the Ukraine war since Moscow's Feb. 24 invasion, Putin explicitly raised the spectre of a nuclear conflict, approved a plan to annex a chunk of Ukraine the size of ...

Putin cast the war in Ukraine as a struggle for Russia’s very existence—at the hands of not the Ukrainian Army but, rather, the combined forces of the collective West.

Putin told the West last year that Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that if the U.S. sent troops to Ukraine, it would be considered a significant escalation of the conflict.