How Russia's gradual gains in the face of fierce Ukrainian opposition have affected the front line in recent months.

In the nearly four years since Russia’s unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war has repeatedly confounded expectations. A conflict that many analysts anticipated would be short and ...

Four years of war have discouraged Ukrainian and Russian women from having children, and that could impact their economies in the future.

Fourth, the fundamentally economic nature of the war means it remains as important (if not more) to impose greater costs on Moscow as it is to finance Kyiv. The Ukrainians know this, of course — ...

However, four years have passed and Ukraine now controls more territory than it did in June 2022. This is despite facing the second-most powerful military in the world, Russia’s disinformation assault ...

Russia’s military has been badly battered by its failure to conquer Ukraine, but Moscow is now rebuilding its war machine for the long haul, according to a new assessment from Estonia’s foreign ...

What many in the West viewed as a strategic blunder is increasingly seen in Moscow as a costly but necessary gamble.

Iran has been a major supplier of military equipment to Russia in recent years, especially since the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but experts have told RFE/RL that this ...

New data from Stockholm International Peace Research Institute shows Europe becoming the world’s largest arms-importing region, driven by the Russia-Ukraine war and growing security concerns.

[Update, March 6, 2026, 11:30 a.m. EST: After this story was published, the Washington Post reported that, according to unnamed officials in the U.S. government, Russia has been providing Iran with ...

The three largest weapons suppliers to Ukraine are named Ukraine ranked first in the world for arms imports in 2021–2025 period. Meanwhile, Russian arms exports fell nearly threefold during same ...

OSINT satellite review shows Russia’s stored T-80 tank reserves nearly gone, with about 134 visible; refurbishment output ...