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Russian invasion of Ukraine

News and analysis on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Europe’s first major war in decades.

A harrowing film exposes the brutality of Russia’s war in Ukraine

By Jen Kirby November 21

Poland’s democracy is on the brink. Can these elections save it?

By Jen Kirby October 16

The West’s united pro-Ukraine front is showing cracks

By Jen Kirby October 3

Congress avoided a shutdown. What happens now?

By Ben Jacobs September 30

40 years ago today, one man saved us from world-ending nuclear war

By Dylan Matthews September 26

Governments once imagined a future without extreme poverty. What happened?

By Bryan Walsh September 22

Why Volodymyr Zelenskyy had to go to Washington

By Jen Kirby September 21

What a defense ministry shake-up may say about Ukraine’s corruption problem

By Jen Kirby September 19

What Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un’s meeting might bring

By Ellen Ioanes September 12

Are the US and Ukraine at odds over the counteroffensive?

By Jen Kirby September 7

What went wrong in Ukraine’s counteroffensive

By Jen Kirby August 8

What’s up with all these drones hitting Moscow?

By Jen Kirby August 3

How bad will things get now that Russia has quit its grain deal with Ukraine?

By Jen Kirby July 20

What Ukraine did — and didn’t — get from the NATO summit

By Jen Kirby July 12

Biden’s Eurotrip, briefly explained

By Li Zhou July 10

The US’s controversial decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, explained

By Jen Kirby July 7

Wagner’s real money never came from diamonds and gold

By Ellen Ioanes July 2

What the Wagner rebellion might mean for Russia’s war in Ukraine

By Jen Kirby July 1

Prigozhin said he was just being a patriot. Do Russians agree?

By Jonathan Guyer June 28

What’s going on with Vladimir Putin after the mutiny?

By Jen Kirby June 26

Aleksandr Lukashenko, the dictator who took credit for ending Wagner’s mutiny, explained

By Nicole Narea June 26

Russia’s wild weekend and the Wagner group’s march to Moscow, explained

By Ellen Ioanes June 26

Prigozhin’s coup attempt unleashes chaos on Russia

By Jen Kirby June 24

A guide to understanding the Ukrainian counteroffensive

By Jen Kirby June 12

Why the Ukraine dam destruction is a massive disaster — now and in the future

By Jen Kirby June 8

Can the West keep supplying Ukraine with enough artillery?

By Jen Kirby June 6

Why we need a Memorial Day for civilian victims of war

By Bryan Walsh May 31

The potential fallout from drone attacks in Moscow

By Nicole Narea May 30

The longest battle of the Ukraine war might finally be over

By Jen Kirby May 22

How Ukraine is trying to woo the Global South — and why it’s so hard

By Ellen Ioanes May 21

How Russia’s invasion transformed one Ukrainian city

By Jen Kirby May 10

So what’s the deal with Ukraine’s spring offensive?

By Jen Kirby April 22

The ongoing scandal over leaked US intel documents, explained

By Jonathan Guyer April 13

The first US journalist was just arrested in Russia since the Cold War

By Jonathan Guyer March 30

What US weapons tell us about the Russia-Ukraine war

By Jonathan Guyer March 29

How Western weapons transformed the war in Ukraine

By Sam Ellis March 24

Putin and Xi’s big Moscow meeting, briefly explained

By Li Zhou March 20

The ICC issued a warrant for war crimes in Ukraine. It came right for Putin.

By Jen Kirby March 17

A Russian aircraft collided with a US drone. It’s a reminder of the Ukraine war risks.

By Jen Kirby March 16

A Ukrainian city is on the verge of falling to Russia

By Jen Kirby March 9