Putin in the past week has publicly acknowledged several military shortcomings, from insufficient weapons to expensive equipment losses. Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with war ...

NATO's enhanced ground capabilities in the Baltic region spark Russian warnings as military focus intensifies on Kaliningrad ...

Despite predictions from global analysts that Russia would collapse under sanctions, military losses, and diplomatic ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is changing his military strategy in the Kremlin's war on Ukraine, experts say, ramping up the brutality to avoid losing a weeks-long conflict it was supposed to ...

Three Ukrainians were killed in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, where Russia captured a first village this week after ...

President Vladimir Putin is convening the Security Council, ... Move for revenge or a different strategy? ... (SBU) attack on Russian military airfields.

Trump's Ukraine plan combines tariffs on Russia-China trade with enhanced air defenses, showing how economic pressure can be ...

War of Attrition Emerging as Putin’s Strategy for the Next Phase of His War With Ukraine. His choice of an economist to be new defense minister, coming after the Congress votes military aid to Ukraine ...

Focused on victory at all costs, Mr. Putin has become a more public face of the war as the Russian military appears increasingly in turmoil, forcing him to announce a call-up this week that could ...

With Russia's ongoing military buildup near Ukraine and the West's rejection of Moscow’s security demands, the window for diplomacy may be closing. Putin’s Ukraine strategy is mix of threats ...

“Putin’s priority is war, and war of attrition is won by economics,” said Alexandra Prokopenko, a former Russian central bank official now at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin.

Moreover, the strategy also helped Putin maintain a fine balance between tightening the rules and not alienating Russia’s economically active urban middle class. For their part, many ordinary Russians ...