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Russian forces control roughly 19–20% of Ukraine as of mid-December 2025, having gained several thousand square kilometers during 2024–25 and continuing modest, steady territorial advances through lat...
The war between Ukraine and Russia has competing start dates depending on how you define “the war.” Large-scale fighting that is widely referenced today began with Russia’s full-scale invasion on 24 F...
The immediate large-scale fighting began when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 — an escalation of a conflict that Western and many international outlets trace back ...
From 1925 onward the Soviet Union and, after 1991, the Russian Federation conducted overt military invasions, occupations or annexations of multiple countries and territories including Afghanistan , C...
The Donbas is a historical, industrial region made of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts that has lain predominantly within Ukraine since 1991 but has been the focal point of armed conflict and partial Russi...
Ethnic Ukrainians formed a majority in Donbas according to pre-war censuses — about 57–58% in Donetsk and Luhansk versus roughly 38–39% ethnic Russians — yet Russian became the dominant urban language...
The Budapest Memorandum offered Ukraine security assurances in exchange for relinquishing the world’s third‑largest nuclear arsenal; signatories—the U.S., U.K., and Russia—pledged to respect Ukraine’s...
The available sources identify Russia — and specifically President Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin — as the primary initiator and continuing principal actor driving the war that escalated with the full‑scale...
The – confrontation is a prolonged, multi-phase conflict that escalated from Russia’s into a , producing shifting front lines, large-scale displacement and entrenched geopolitical rivalry . Battles of...
The Ukraine–Russia war traces back to a contest over Ukraine’s orientation and territories that erupted into open conflict after Russia’s covert seizure of Crimea in 2014 and expanded dramatically whe...
Reporting and independent investigations repeatedly describe Patrick Lancaster as a pro‑Kremlin or pro‑Russian propagandist while also noting he sometimes reveals compromising Russian material; major ...
Yes — by simple duration, ’s full‑scale invasion of exceeded the length of the ’s “” when it reached in January 2026, a milestone reported across Western and regional outlets . Multiple independent ou...
After 1991 Russia asserted influence over Ukraine through a mix of historical claims, institutional ties left by the Soviet system, energy leverage, and political interventions—responses rooted in Sov...
Expert analyses mostly reject the simple claim that the U.S. “planned or directed” a coup in Ukraine in 2014, describing instead a complex mix of large grassroots protests, Western diplomatic engageme...
NATO expansion was a major Kremlin grievance repeatedly cited by Russian leaders and diplomats before and after the 2008 war in Georgia and Russia’s interventions in Ukraine , and many analysts treat ...
Ukraine’s path to NATO remains politicized and conditional: NATO leaders say Allies will invite Ukraine “when Allies agree and conditions are met,” and Vilnius/Washington-era measures aim to build int...
launched a full-scale invasion of on 24 February 2022, attacking from , from occupied and along eastern fronts, a major escalation of a conflict that began in 2014 . The war has since produced shiftin...
U.S. and British officials publicly accused Russia in early February 2022 of preparing a “very graphic” staged video as a pretext for invasion; those governments shared intelligence assessments but di...
The run-up to Russia’s February 24, 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine was accompanied by a sustained Kremlin disinformation campaign that pushed a set of coordinated false narratives—claims of NATO ...
Independent investigations and open-source tallies do not provide a single, comprehensive number for how many foreign nationals have been killed or wounded while fighting for Russia in Ukraine; instea...