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Russian residents in border regions are increasingly apathetic towards the war and assume that Russia will not agree to an end to the war in the near ...

Russian authorities recently detained the acting vice governor of Kursk Region, Vladimir Bazarov. This is likely part of the Kremlin’s ongoin ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with NBC confirmed the Kremlin's explicit rejection of the US-proposed peace initiatives in ...

Russia is insisting on having the right to veto any Western security guarantees for Ukraine - in an attempt to thwart ongoing US and European efforts ...

On August 12, Russian forces continued to penetrate Ukrainian defensive positions east and northeast of Dobropil (northwest of Pokrovsk) with sabotage ...

US President Donald Trump has expressed his willingness to facilitate substantive peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in an effort to achieve lasti ...

Some Russian commentators are seeking to sow discord in the Trump administration, possibly as part of a broader effort to avoid US sanctions ahead of ...

Russian head of state Vladimir Putin has deliberately put himself in a position where he cannot present any peace agreement that does not meet his ori ...

The Russian authorities are not ready for any compromises within the framework of the negotiation process to end the war if they do not envisage the c ...

The Kremlin has yet to give a coordinated response to US President Donald Trump's August 1 order to deploy two US nuclear submarines closer to Rus ...

The Kremlin continued its nuclear threats against the US ahead of the ordered deployment of US nuclear submarines on August 1, demonstrating that Medv ...

US President Donald Trump has set an August 8 deadline for his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to begin talks to end the war in Ukraine. On July 29 ...

The Kremlin is trying to force US President Donald Trump to abandon his announced 10-day deadline for ending the war in Ukraine. This is stated in the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not make concessions on his military goals unless he is forced to do so by major victories for Ukraine on the fr ...

Russian forces have advanced northeast of Siversk, geolocated video footage released on July 27 shows. The Ukrainian brigade that repelled the attack ...

Russia is also using the ongoing internal protests in Ukraine as a weapon to undermine Ukraine’s legitimacy and discourage Western support. T ...

Ukrainian Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal said that Ukraine's Defense Industrial Base (DIB) could absorb additional investments of $6 billion and t ...

US President Donald Trump announced a large-scale and rapid delivery of military aid to Ukraine through NATO. On July 14, during a meeting with NATO ...

The Kremlin continues to use the aggressive rhetoric of Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, to undermine Western militar ...

The Russians are increasing drone attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine and, according to analysts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be trying to increase volunteer recruitment among the Russian population, possibly due to declining domest ...

Russian forces have recently advanced northeast of Pokrovsk and may try to advance towards Dobropilya as part of efforts to encircle Pokrovsk and bypa ...

US Patriot air defense systems remain crucial to Ukraine's ability to defend itself against Russian ballistic missile strikes. This was stated ...

Russia carried out its largest combined series of strikes of the war on the night of June 28-29, launching over 500 missiles and drones against Ukrain ...

Russian forces are increasingly using "Shahed" drones to strike Ukrainian targets on the front line, analysts from the Institute for the Stu ...