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As the Trump administration works toward a halt in the fighting, many experts fear that Ukraine will be forced to accept a ceasefire deal that will only give Russian forces a badly needed breather.

The figure for Russian casualties is unverified, but most experts in the West agree that the Kremlin’s losses are massive. Despite that, Russians are advancing, albeit slowly, on the battlefield.

It is time to hang in the Kremlin, and in school classrooms for that matter, a different map, with the enormous Moscow agglomeration (13% of the population, or one Russian in every eight) and a ...

On Friday, Russian authorities acknowledged that Ukrainian drones were targeting Grozny, provincial capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, as an Azerbaijani commercial airliner with 67 ...

It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate countries. And what a ride it’s been. The West has reaped the fruits of the USSR’s loss, expanding NATO to ...

Members of the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardiya) came under an attack by unknown assailants in Chechnya, leaving one service member killed and another injured, the guard told the state news ...

Russian troops have made "significant" gains around Selydove in recent days, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) whose map shows the latest state of play in the frontline Donetsk ...

Next to the video, Gerashchenko wrote, "attention, EU and UK! Russian state TV channel showed a map of nuclear strikes on European capitals." ...

A map has shown the Russian military bases in Ukraine that Army Tactical Missile Systems could strike with the U.S.'s permission. ATACMS missiles are long-range missiles Ukraine has used during ...

That includes 21 non-Slavic "autonomous republics" such as Chechnya, Dagestan, Bashkortostan, Chuvashia, and Tatarstan, and six non-Slavic "autonomous districts," some with a population larger ...