While faster than before, Russia’s territorial gains remain minor, with only 5,000 square kilometres (1,930 square miles) of ...

More ROMAN PILIPEY/Getty Images This map by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) from August 11, 2024 shows the situation in Russia's Kursk region. Institute for the Study of War ...

The push into Kursk may force Russia into a decision to treat the border as a front rather than a dormant area, with implications for Moscow's deployment of personnel and materiel within Ukraine ...

Russia’s broad range of attacks appears to be stretching Ukrainian forces thin. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, said in an interview from a bunker in ...

Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of a Russian mercenary group who attempted a mutiny against President Vladimir Putin in June, was aboard a plane that crashed Aug. 23 north of Moscow, killing all aboard.

As fighting continues to rage in Kursk, RFE/RL’s Russian Service has been keeping track of Ukraine’s incursion with an interactive map of events that uses information compiled and verified ...