Officially, the Kremlin has annexed only Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson, but given that Russian President Vladimir ...

Moscow's forces made gains in the Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia regions, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

Ukrainian forces push Russian army away from Sumy, General Staff says Ukrainian military again denies reports on Russian ...

Russia launched its offensive in the spring aiming to create a "buffer zone" inside Ukraine to protect its border regions.

"This year's wave of the enemy's 'summer offensive' from Russian territory is faltering," Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr ...

Dmitry Medvedev wants a gigantic buffer zone in Ukraine to shield Russia from Western weapons. But it would take nearly a century for Russia to achieve at its current pace, ISW analysts said.

The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces dismissed on May 21 Russian claims that fighting in Russia's Kursk Oblast has ended, insisting that operations by the Ukrainian military in the border ...

The Ukrainian General Staff said that Ukraine’s defence forces continue to hold back the Russians in Kursk Oblast. Russia carried out 28 air strikes on this front, dropping 37 guided aerial ...

Russia has made fewer territorial gains in Ukraine in 2025. George Barros, an analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, speaks with NPR about how Ukraine may seek to gain advantage.

Speaking to the heads of Ukraine's foreign diplomatic missions on Aug. 19 in Dnipro, Zelenskyy said Kyiv's forces have taken control of 92 settlements and more than 480 square miles in Kursk.

The publication noted that Ukraine’s months-long campaign to seize and hold Russian territory, which began in August 2024, appears to be nearing its end. According to Pasi Paroinen, a military analyst ...