The claim is false. The Soviet Union played a pivotal role in the Allied victory in World War II (WWII), but Russia lost in World War I (WWI). Both wars were devastating for Russia. As a result of ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. The development of a new generation of drones ...

The Ukrainian military said it carried out a high-precision strike on a Russian command post in Maryino, in Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces hold chunks of territory after a major ...

By Steven Lee Myers and Adam Satariano A Russian court said the lawyers for Aleksei Navalny, the country’s top opposition figure before his death in a penal colony last year, were guilty of ...

Still, it has added a new dimension to Putin’s saber-rattling at home. Fishman, the TV Rain anchor, said Putin had reshaped Russia with three core concepts: “nuclear orthodoxy,” a ...

An earlier version of the copy wrongly said it was a Transnistrian company. The flow of Russian gas to several European countries was halted on New Year’s Day after Ukraine refused to ...

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is the world’s biggest country in terms of land mass. On a map, Russia sits above Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China. Russia dwarfs China in geographic coverage ...

But it’s clear their work has grown exponentially more dangerous in recent months as Russia has ramped up its drone offensive, terrorizing Ukrainian cities on an almost daily basis. Over the ...

Maps of the war in Ukraine show Russian advances as troops appeared to make gains into enemy territory on Christmas Eve. These advancs stretch along the border of Russian-controlled land and show ...

8, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia on Wednesday launched a major ballistic and cruise missile attack on regions across Ukraine, targeting energy production and compelling ...

Struggling to make good the loss of thousands of armored vehicles, the Russian military has long relied on unarmored vehicles—motorbikes, all-terrain vehicles, vans and trucks—to carry ...