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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...
Claims that “the EU is planning for war with Russia by 2030” trace primarily to statements by Hungarian leaders and multiple pro‑Russian outlets repeating them; Viktor Orbán and Peter Szijjártó have p...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has accepted Russia’s counter‑claims alleging Ukraine committed genocide in Donbas and found the counter‑claims admissible, giving Russia until December 2027 t...
Russia has recently made measurable territorial gains and pressed diplomatic leverage, but it has paid very high human and materiel costs and still faces resilient Ukrainian resistance and persistent ...
New reporting around January 12, 2026, does not reveal a single dramatic new revelation about Kremlin-directed political interference campaigns but does show a pattern of expanded kinetic and hybrid t...
Available public datasets and reporting included in the search results do not provide a single, universally accepted figure for “Ukrainian losses”; instead they show multiple, sometimes conflicting ta...
Russian leaders and officials have issued repeated warnings in December 2025 that Russia is “ready” to fight Europe if Europe “starts” a war, and have threatened retaliation against specific NATO and ...
Rachel Maddow’s Russia–Ukraine coverage cannot be directly evaluated against other cable hosts using the supplied sources because the only available documents are Institute for the Study of War (ISW) ...
Available search results do not mention any fact-checkers reviewing Rachel Maddow’s Russia‑Ukraine reporting, nor do they mention Maddow specifically; the sources are Institute for the Study of War (I...
Rachel Maddow’s reporting on Russia and Ukraine has frequently referenced material that aligns with, and sometimes cites, official or unofficial intelligence statements and public reporting by Western...
Rachel Maddow’s Russia‑Ukraine reporting typically cites a mix of Western think tanks, Ukrainian military spokespeople, media outlets, and independent open‑source analysts; many of the available docum...
There is no authoritative reporting in the provided sources that Ukrainian forces have “surrounded 80,000 Russian troops”; independent assessments instead describe localized encirclements, Russian con...
If Russia is "knowingly" bombing apartment blocks and other civilian sites, UN, Amnesty and OHCHR investigators and multiple monitoring organisations already characterise many such strikes as war crim...
Pokrovsk — the Donetsk city associated in reporting with Mykola Leontovych’s birthplace narrative — is the focus of intense fighting and heavy damage after months of Russian attacks; open-source repor...
Vladimir Putin has presented himself as willing to engage in “serious” negotiations over U.S.- and U.S.-Ukraine-drafted peace proposals, yet multiple recent statements and actions cited in reporting s...
On Sept. 28–29, 2025, Russian forces launched a very large combined drone-and-missile barrage that Ukrainian officials say involved roughly 595–619 “exploding” drones and about 48 missiles; Ukrainian ...
Russian public messaging and battlefield reporting show Moscow staking political and military claims over Kherson and Zaporizhia while ground fighting is active but not producing clear advances; multi...
Ukrainian and independent reporting show a wave of Russian strikes across multiple oblasts on Dec. 6–8, 2025 that caused widespread energy outages and infrastructure damage and included strikes in Kha...
President Vladimir Putin reiterated that NATO expansion toward Russia’s borders is unacceptable and demanded guarantees Ukraine will not join the alliance, saying NATO presence near Russia threatens M...
Russian forces are pressing in the Pokrovsk–Myrnohrad area and have attempted to sever Ukrainian logistics using drone-enabled battlefield air interdiction, but available open-source reporting indicat...